> Director William Keighley was initially assigned to the project because he had made Warners' first excursion into three-strip Technicolor, God's Country and the Woman (1937). He had also directed Flynn in The Prince and the Pauper and the two got along well.
> More stunt men were used on The Adventures of Robin Hood than any other up to this time. A stuntman got paid extra for taking an arrow. A steel plate was inserted under the costumes to prevent penetration (although impact was still often painful). On top of the steel plate was a layer of balsa wood that caught and held the arrow tip. All the "fatal" shots were delivered by world champion archer Howard Hill, who had a deserved reputation for never missing.
> The archery tournament was shot at the now gone Busch Gardens in Pasadena, which was later used for the Wilkes plantation exteriors in Gone with the Wind (1939) and in many other films.
> The golden palomino Olivia de Havilland rides in the picture was named Golden Cloud and was owned by Hudkins Stables, a company that leased horses and Western equipment for films. Shortly after, Roy Rogers bought the horse, which already had a reputation for being a remarkably intelligent and cooperative animal, and rode him in his first lead role (and the first time the former Leonard Slye was billed as "Roy Rogers"), Under Western Stars (1938). The horse was renamed Trigger, and became Rogers' starring steed in every one of his movies. Trigger died in 1965, but his hide, stretched over a plastic likeness, can be viewed by visitors to the Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, Missouri.
