The Adventures of Robin Hood

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

TCM fan Karen Snow joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

His speech more lyric than bombast, Errol Flynn (title character, echoed by John Belushi in Animal House, 1978) rallies his Saxon band, an oppression montage, then Gisbourne and the sheriff (Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper) lamenting rebel derring-do, in The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Insouciant Errol Flynn (title character) with minstrel Scarlett (Patric Knowles) strolling home through Sherwood Forest meets brawny John Little (Alan Hale), whose name will be inverted whence he joins the merry men, male bonding mostly directed by Michael Curtiz, in The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

After establishing the ascendance of evil Prince John in England, 1191, a first sketch of the title character, Errol Flynn, with pal Will Scarlett (Patric Knowles), as hunter Much (Herbert Mundlin) is abused by tax-hoarding Sir Guy (Basil Rathbone), in Warner Bros.’ The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

The sheriff (Melville Cooper), and Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone), escort Marian (Olivia De Havilland), smug in the belief that they can convey cash through Sherwood Forest, hijacked of course by Errol Flynn (title character) and his uniformed cohort, in The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

Usurper Prince John (Claude Rains) giddy with power, feasts with Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone), Marian (Olivia De Havilland), the sheriff (Melville Cooper) and bishop (Montagu Love), when Errol Flynn (title character) appears, with reference to Norman/Saxon politics, in The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938.

The Sherwood Forest legend (Errol Flynn) leads his Merry Men in a battle against the wicked Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).