The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Directed by
- William Keighley, Michael Curtiz
- Genre
- drama film, swashbuckler film, action film, vigilante film, medieval film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 851 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Saxon knight named Robin Hood leads an outlaw band in the forests of medieval England. They rob from Norman nobles and fight back against an oppressive prince to defend the Saxon common people.
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What happens
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American epic swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller. It stars Errol Flynn as the legendary Saxon knight Robin Hood, who in Richard I's absence in the Holy Land during the Crusades, fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla band against Prince John and the Norman lords oppressing the Saxon commoners. The cast also includes Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. Upon its premiere on May 14, 1938, The Adventures of Robin Hood was very well received by critics. The film was a commercial success; it grossed around $4 million at the box office, making it one of the highest grossers of 1938. At the 11th Academy Awards, the film received four nominations, winning three—Best Art Direction (Carl Jules Weyl), Best Film Editing (Ralph Dawson) and Best Original Score (Erich Wolfgang Korngold). In 1995, The Adventures of Robin Hood was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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If I Were King (1938)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.