Me too, although I do quite like the Russell Crowe version. Kevin Costner's woeful attempt is best not even mentioned, but I have, so sorry for that. Lol.
To me, the Errol Flynn version is the best. The Disney version was my introduction to it in childhood and is just fine given the small budget it had to work with. No opinion on the Kevin Costner version. Mel Brooks's version was hilarious. But the Russell Crowe version was so boring that it put me to sleep.
I agree that the final outtake scene with Robin and Marian riding off in the sunset should have been edited out. Seeing the doors of the castle closing after the two leave symbolizes the closing of the story.
Great stuff! ....Errol Flynn's co star, Olivia de Havilland, at 7:42, just turned 101! My grandfather was a crew grip on this epic version of Robin Hood...
Not forgetting, Marion, "Why do you hate The Normans so much ?" Robin, "It's injustice I hate, not The Normans". That response has stayed with me since I was a goggle eyed lad soaking up every scene containing the Mighty Flynn.
Nice ! Olivia de Havilland is by far the best maid Marion to have ever graced the screen. And here we are almost 100 years later still unable to rival the original Errol Flynn adventures of Robin Hood it was simply the best and being in color for the time. Had to be amazing to the people that grew up never seen color on the screen I think we could all go back a little bit in time more simple easier life.
This Awesome short film presenting behind the scenes of Errol Flynn's ROBIN HOOD full and completely proves my point that Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's most underated Actors & Hollywood Legends! Just watch the part where Errol gets zipped up the roap and then the short clip of Errol and another fave of mine Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) sword fight. Watch Errol seemlessly soar over the overturned table and pick right up with skilled sword work with Basil!! Wow, I am totally in awe and Thanks ever so much! Gordon Welke (p.s. I love the way Director Michael Curtiz dresses, as does the rest of the crew, it speaks volumes about the way people were in those times, generally speaking ofcourse.
I can't help but think had Errol Flynn magically woke up and it was 2020 he had yet to start in a major motion picture but just by the virtue of him being him there is no doubt in my mind he would be in the ranks with the newer guys Brad Pitt Ben Affleck Matt Damon all of them you know so many people the name I mean it's almost 100 years after his first film and people are still talking about him and like us are watching desperately any little tidbit of information about movies he was a true star.
The mistake they keep making over and over again is trying to make a Robin Hood movie that is "realistic" (which has come to mean grimy and depressing), and grimdark. In order for a Robin Hood movie to be a Robin Hood movie, it needs to have a certain amount of levity, dash, and a sense of fun. Present day movie makers are too focused on bashing the audience over the head with the idea that everyone and everything in the Middle Ages sucked.
Scariest Possible Casting : Warner's originally wanted James Cagney to play Robin Hood! ... Ugh! "Sir Guy,You Dirty Rat!" and "Made it Marion! Top of the Castle!"
I have a belt that was worn by one of the trumpet players, in the Nottingham castle feast scene. It’s turquoise blue, with gold braid trim. It can be clearly seen as the camera moves past the musicians. Later on in the film, it can again be seen, in the archery tournament scene. A very rare piece of wardrobe.
I moved to Chico because I was going to Butte College for nursing. One thing you learn about Chico is Robinhood and filming parts of the scenes in Bidwell Park.
One correction...the Warner ranch was not located in Calabasas. It was part of Canoga Park and Woodland Hills which at the time was called Girard. It is now called Warner Center and is a major business hub of Los Angeles with Malls, homes, apartments, giant, big and small business', Pierce jr college and a major hospital. The Apollo engines for the space program to the moon were also build there at Rockwell International. I use to play on the massive property when I was a kid. Oranges galore..
As far as I'm concern there is only one Robin Hood and that"s Errol Flynn but I also liked Carey Eweles who unlike some other Robin Hood could speak with an English Accent.
Rudy Behlmer was a wonderful resource for the Golden Age and the Flynn films. Errol, Olivia, Basil, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold! Does it get any better than that?
to Requiem20101- thanks soooo much! This is one of my all-time favorite movies- have watched it soooo many times! and a link with my dad who showed me -all the Flynn movies, and Clint Eastwood & Shane & the other classic Westerns & Bond (Connery).!!! Thanks again- soo great to see this stuff! Really appreciate you uploading this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's strange that if you compare this Robin Hood film to the Kevin Costner or Russell Crowe versions they actually come across as incredibly dull. Did modern day directors forget how to make great movies?
I think it comes down to preference. Some prefer this version as it excites them and for a plethora of other reasons. Some will prefer the Costner and Crowe version as they excite them and for a plethora of other reasons. Personally i like the Flynn and Costner version (for different reasons but they are equally great movies). But I say again. It’s just down to preference. For example lots of my friends find the the transformers or dark knight movies to be really exhilarating. Personally I think they are the most boring movies ever put to screen. People love Michael bay. I hate his movies. I love Steven Spielberg. A lot of people hate him these days. It’s just preference and the preference of the general public will naturally change over time.
This is a GREAT Movie. Seen it so many times! Also, watch the 1922 "Robin Hood" with Douglas Fairbanks. It's here on You Tube!! It was the film that opened the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, CA, in 1922. Five years before the Grauman's Chinese opened on Hollywood Blvd in 1927 (with Cecil B. DeMille's "The King of Kings")!
I remember them both well, having grown up going to movies there. The Egyptian was gutted and the interior is totally modern now. Only the exterior remains. I think Grauman's Chinese has been restored with many original features remaining. Thanks for the info about Fairbanks' Robin Hood in 1922. I didn't know that was the inaugural feature at the Egyptian. My first 'Egyptian' memory is of "The Ten Commandments" in 1955. I found my original program and sold it at a yard sale 8 years ago.
For a long time, I thought the cameramen put a dark filter on the lens to simulate night shots, but it is explained here that they would under-develop the film to make it night.
Love this film so very much!! I did notice one other slight mistake when they were making the film towards the very end where Robin slays Sir Guy. As he leaps off the staircase and lands beside Guy's body, you can see Basil Rathbone twitch slightly. Thought the other film buffs might want to know about it :) Thanks for the upload!!
@@markrubin9449 Have you ever seen The Rocketeer? In reality Errol Flynn was a nazi sympathizer and they played it up in The Rocketeer-even replicating the scene you mentioned.
@@The_Dudester That was just trash written by unscrupulous biographer Higham for sensationalistic publicity. He never was able to provide proof for several of his outrageous libels and this particular claim has been well-debunked. Errol certainly had outrageous episodes in his life, but this Nazi lie was not one of them.
Robin Hood of the Ballads say King was Edward.. a Prioress of Kirkly..here we go.. a Prioress is a woman in charge of nuns.. and Kirkly in 1400s England during reign of King Edward means "Church Fields".. later on, that place Kirkly was renamed the Benefice of Lower Wensleydale.. there are 6 churches there that make a face.. Look at St. Marys Church.. just about 350 yards east is Hornby Castle.. Home of the Conyers at one time.. Sir John Conyers Jr was the Robin Hood of the Ballads aka Robin of Redesdale.. just not the first to use name... he was leader of the York Knights.. Sir Robert Hulderne was Robin of Holderness..he was Captain of the York Rebels.. there is only one record of a man using name Friar Tuck in 1417 and 1429.. Sir John Conyers was in mid 20s age when he met Friar Tuck age mid 50s : )
They were workmanlike in their work, not artsy in their art. All costume drama today is tongue-in-cheek, playing acting at dress-up. Back then, the actors, no matter how young they were, were men. Today, the actors, no matter how old they are, are boys.
Man popping up was probably there to ensure the safety of the stunt double. Just that, well, since it's 1938, you don't quite have the communication in the ear to tell him "Stay down, stupid!"
A fantastic film ... but I'd prefer that they ended it with the scene shown here, of Robin and Marian riding horseback off into the distance over beauteous English landscape.
This was filmed on the Warner Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley, about where Oxnard Blvd. is now. Today it is Warner Business Park. Then, there were rolling green hills dotted with ancient oak trees in all directions. I grew up a few miles from there, at the tail end of that era, a few years after WWII. There were horse ranches and farms before there were parking lots and suburban housing tracts. The Ventura Freeway caused the forced re-location of our house, via eminent domain, in 1956.
There is a big mistake in the movie towards the end when Mutch The Miler's son is fighting with one of the Sherrif''s men. A station wagon can be clearly seen driving across the background. Still an alltime great though.
![What's My Line? - Errol Flynn; Martin Gabel [panel] (Dec 1, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CkE9CGB2Wj0/mqdefault.jpg)
One of my all time favorite films. Both Errol and Olivia were wonderful in this.❤️❤️❤️
Everybody was!
Still the best Robin Hood movie made up to this day.
+WilfredIvanhoe I agree fully
Me too, although I do quite like the Russell Crowe version.
Kevin Costner's woeful attempt is best not even mentioned, but I have, so sorry for that. Lol.
To me, the Errol Flynn version is the best. The Disney version was my introduction to it in childhood and is just fine given the small budget it had to work with. No opinion on the Kevin Costner version. Mel Brooks's version was hilarious. But the Russell Crowe version was so boring that it put me to sleep.
I beg to differ but, in my opinion the 1976 movie 'Robin And Marian' starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn was a far better version.
It was not to bad but it only related partly to what we all know about Robin Hood.
Errol and Olivia two of my all time favorites
Flynn had that "once in a generation" kind of charisma
I agree that the final outtake scene with Robin and Marian riding off in the sunset should have been edited out. Seeing the doors of the castle closing after the two leave symbolizes the closing of the story.
Great stuff! ....Errol Flynn's co star, Olivia de Havilland, at 7:42, just turned 101! My grandfather was a crew grip on this epic version of Robin Hood...
That's pretty cool!
This is supercool stuff! My fave lines in the film: Marian: "WHY YOU SPEAK TREASON". Robin: "FLUENTLY"
Not forgetting,
Marion, "Why do you hate The Normans so much ?"
Robin, "It's injustice I hate, not The Normans".
That response has stayed with me since I was a goggle eyed lad soaking up every scene containing the Mighty Flynn.
i wrote to miss havilland in paris a few years ago,sent her a photo from robin hood,that she returned to me autographed by her :O)
That must have been a real thrill when you saw a letter from Paris delivered by the postman. Nice story.
yes indeed and considering she rarely signs autographs these days
@@broadband01 Especially now! Lol
Nice ! Olivia de Havilland is by far the best maid Marion to have ever graced the screen. And here we are almost 100 years later still unable to rival the original Errol Flynn adventures of Robin Hood it was simply the best and being in color for the time. Had to be amazing to the people that grew up never seen color on the screen I think we could all go back a little bit in time more simple easier life.
She was a very gracious lady. She talked to us students for almost two hours when I was at the AFI in LA in the 1970s.
There was nobody better then Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.
i agree. Couldn't get more romantic and a more handsome couple as long as you could look.
This Awesome short film presenting behind the scenes of Errol Flynn's ROBIN HOOD full and completely proves my point that Errol Flynn is one of Hollywood's most underated Actors & Hollywood Legends! Just watch the part where Errol gets zipped up the roap and then the short clip of Errol and another fave of mine Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) sword fight. Watch Errol seemlessly soar over the overturned table and pick right up with skilled sword work with Basil!! Wow, I am totally in awe and Thanks ever so much! Gordon Welke
(p.s. I love the way Director Michael Curtiz dresses, as does the rest of the crew, it speaks volumes about the way people were in those times, generally speaking ofcourse.
I can't help but think had Errol Flynn magically woke up and it was 2020 he had yet to start in a major motion picture but just by the virtue of him being him there is no doubt in my mind he would be in the ranks with the newer guys Brad Pitt Ben Affleck Matt Damon all of them you know so many people the name I mean it's almost 100 years after his first film and people are still talking about him and like us are watching desperately any little tidbit of information about movies he was a true star.
There will never be a better Robin Hood...case closed!
Mr Ed
+ Well said that man.
Totally agree! There’s only one Robin Hood and it’s Errol Flynn! 😉
The mistake they keep making over and over again is trying to make a Robin Hood movie that is "realistic" (which has come to mean grimy and depressing), and grimdark.
In order for a Robin Hood movie to be a Robin Hood movie, it needs to have a certain amount of levity, dash, and a sense of fun. Present day movie makers are too focused on bashing the audience over the head with the idea that everyone and everything in the Middle Ages sucked.
Richard Todd is a close second
@@KageMinowara exactly
The final decision on the ending is perfect.
presbyterosBassI agree! Like it the way it is
Scariest Possible Casting : Warner's originally wanted James Cagney to play Robin Hood! ... Ugh! "Sir Guy,You Dirty Rat!" and "Made it Marion! Top of the Castle!"
lol.
Still better than 95 percent of movies today.
I found this movie years ago in "100 movies you should watch before you die" i 💟 it!
Thanks for sharing!🥀
I am looking for a book called "100 movies to watch after you die"
One of my all time favorite movies AND even more so when I learned about Howard Hills involvement years later!
GREAT FILM WITH SUPERB ACTORS AND MUSIC
Those outtakes are gold, especially that stunt that was ruined by the crew member popping up twice. Thanks for posting.
I have a belt that was worn by one of the trumpet players, in the Nottingham castle feast scene.
It’s turquoise blue, with gold braid trim. It can be clearly seen as the camera moves past the musicians. Later on in the film, it can again be seen, in the archery tournament scene.
A very rare piece of wardrobe.
Errol Flynn the most misunderstood/underrated actor of all time. Not because of roles like this, admittedly...
Yes Errol Flynn for me is the original Robin Hood movie, it was a fast paced movie with lots of action and the dialogue was stupendous.
👍👌
I moved to Chico because I was going to Butte College for nursing. One thing you learn about Chico is Robinhood and filming parts of the scenes in Bidwell Park.
Never be another one like Errol Flynn best swash buckler ever or robin hood. FULL STOP
It might not seem obvious at first, but Korngold's compositions have influenced my own, such as no other composer. I owe much to him.
korngold is THE master!
Priceless memories. The good old times will never get old.
I loved the real ending of Robin and his lady riding to their place.
should of had them riding through a tunnel, kind of a hitchcock ending.
They just don't make Stars like that anymore...Errol was an Adonis!
One correction...the Warner ranch was not located in Calabasas. It was part of Canoga Park and Woodland Hills which at the time was called Girard. It is now called Warner Center and is a major business hub of Los Angeles with Malls, homes, apartments, giant, big and small business', Pierce jr college and a major hospital. The Apollo engines for the space program to the moon were also build there at Rockwell International. I use to play on the massive property when I was a kid. Oranges galore..
Thank you for these great explanations! Greatest Movie!
Always fascinating to get these behind-the-scenes looks!
As far as I'm concern there is only one Robin Hood and that"s Errol Flynn but I also liked Carey Eweles who unlike some other Robin Hood could speak with an English Accent.
I understood that reference.
Rudy Behlmer was a wonderful resource for the Golden Age and the Flynn films. Errol, Olivia, Basil, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold! Does it get any better than that?
Errol. Olivia, and Trigger--that movie had everything!!!!!
Was that trigger doing the jump in the first scene?
Very interesting footage. Sometimes the footage is grainy when they do a cutting, this was very good. Thank you...
to Requiem20101- thanks soooo much! This is one of my all-time favorite movies- have watched it soooo many times! and a link with my dad who showed me -all the Flynn movies, and Clint Eastwood & Shane & the other classic Westerns & Bond (Connery).!!! Thanks again- soo great to see this stuff! Really appreciate you uploading this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those door pulls in that last scene are still in the WB prop department as of 2018. I couldn't fit one in my pocket!
It's strange that if you compare this Robin Hood film to the Kevin Costner or Russell Crowe versions they actually come across as incredibly dull. Did modern day directors forget how to make great movies?
I think it comes down to preference. Some prefer this version as it excites them and for a plethora of other reasons. Some will prefer the Costner and Crowe version as they excite them and for a plethora of other reasons.
Personally i like the Flynn and Costner version (for different reasons but they are equally great movies). But I say again. It’s just down to preference.
For example lots of my friends find the the transformers or dark knight movies to be really exhilarating. Personally I think they are the most boring movies ever put to screen. People love Michael bay. I hate his movies. I love Steven Spielberg. A lot of people hate him these days. It’s just preference and the preference of the general public will naturally change over time.
I own this movie I love to watch it plus anytime TCM runs it I watch it
Errol Will Always Be The Best!
There is a reason they give Editing awards at the Oscars.
Such an important job!
This is a GREAT Movie. Seen it so many times! Also, watch the 1922 "Robin Hood" with Douglas Fairbanks. It's here on You Tube!! It was the film that opened the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, CA, in 1922. Five years before the Grauman's Chinese opened on Hollywood Blvd in 1927 (with Cecil B. DeMille's "The King of Kings")!
I remember them both well, having grown up going to movies there. The Egyptian was gutted and the interior is totally modern now. Only the exterior remains. I think Grauman's Chinese has been restored with many original features remaining. Thanks for the info about Fairbanks' Robin Hood in 1922. I didn't know that was the inaugural feature at the Egyptian. My first 'Egyptian' memory is of "The Ten Commandments" in 1955. I found my original program and sold it at a yard sale 8 years ago.
A more accurate title for this video should be 'Deleted Scenes'
The scene at the end where they ride off into the sunset before the closing credits could have been left in
Great stunt work
This is great info on a great motion picture. It was a-one perfect.....Many thanks
For a long time, I thought the cameramen put a dark filter on the lens to simulate night shots, but it is explained here that they would under-develop the film to make it night.
It's been don both ways! In Jaws Spielberg used a Filter for the Opening Scene when the Girl is attacked and killed by the Shark!
best movie ever made
Love this film so very much!! I did notice one other slight mistake when they were making the film towards the very end where Robin slays Sir Guy. As he leaps off the staircase and lands beside Guy's body, you can see Basil Rathbone twitch slightly. Thought the other film buffs might want to know about it :)
Thanks for the upload!!
I suppose you wanted Basil Rathbone to actually be killed?
@@markrubin9449 Have you ever seen The Rocketeer? In reality Errol Flynn was a nazi sympathizer and they played it up in The Rocketeer-even replicating the scene you mentioned.
@@The_Dudester incorrect actually he supported left wing parties. Therefore he was not a nazi sympathiser or facist or anything like that.
@@The_Dudester That was just trash written by unscrupulous biographer Higham for sensationalistic publicity. He never was able to provide proof for several of his outrageous libels and this particular claim has been well-debunked. Errol certainly had outrageous episodes in his life, but this Nazi lie was not one of them.
Wow. This is terrific stuff. I only recently listened to the narrator's excellent commentary on Gone with the Wind.
Errol Flynn was the best actor of his generation. No doubt.
I love that BTS for such an old film exists! So fascinating
There were no closing credits in the film, except for the "The End" credit and the cast list.
He was too awesome!
Thank you for this
Thanks for posting this interesting stuff.
Yes Flynn brst ROBIN hood ever
No ... they should add the last footage, of Robin & Marian riding off into the sunset !
only if they ride into a tunnel
Robin Hood of the Ballads say King was Edward.. a Prioress of Kirkly..here we go.. a Prioress is a woman in charge of nuns.. and Kirkly in 1400s England during reign of King Edward means "Church Fields".. later on, that place Kirkly was renamed the Benefice of Lower Wensleydale.. there are 6 churches there that make a face.. Look at St. Marys Church.. just about 350 yards east is Hornby Castle.. Home of the Conyers at one time.. Sir John Conyers Jr was the Robin Hood of the Ballads aka Robin of Redesdale.. just not the first to use name... he was leader of the York Knights.. Sir Robert Hulderne was Robin of Holderness..he was Captain of the York Rebels.. there is only one record of a man using name Friar Tuck in 1417 and 1429.. Sir John Conyers was in mid 20s age when he met Friar Tuck age mid 50s : )
@Capt777harris Yes it it but I should point out that it is the R2 version (UK).
I was 7yrs old when I saw this movie and Flynn became my hero and I wanted to him. .............
Super!!
They were workmanlike in their work, not artsy in their art. All costume drama today is tongue-in-cheek, playing acting at dress-up. Back then, the actors, no matter how young they were, were men. Today, the actors, no matter how old they are, are boys.
Man popping up was probably there to ensure the safety of the stunt double. Just that, well, since it's 1938, you don't quite have the communication in the ear to tell him "Stay down, stupid!"
Excellent film
Fascinating!
Errol Flynn is my favorite Robin Hood
Awesome
You're very welcome :)
Intro and narration by the late great Rudy behlmer a writer and film historian. Rest in peace Rudy .
This is really fascinating. Thanks for uploading.
A fantastic film ... but I'd prefer that they ended it with the scene shown here, of Robin and Marian riding horseback off into the distance over beauteous English landscape.
This was filmed on the Warner Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley, about where Oxnard Blvd. is now. Today it is Warner Business Park. Then, there were rolling green hills dotted with ancient oak trees in all directions. I grew up a few miles from there, at the tail end of that era, a few years after WWII. There were horse ranches and farms before there were parking lots and suburban housing tracts. The Ventura Freeway caused the forced re-location of our house, via eminent domain, in 1956.
This is great, but it's not outtakes.
I love this film! :)
Love you Rudy Belmere!
My favorite movie!!!
Cool stuff
There is a big mistake in the movie towards the end when Mutch The Miler's son is fighting with one of the Sherrif''s men. A station wagon can be clearly seen driving across the background.
Still an alltime great though.
they had cars in those days
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Glad they ended the film as the castle gates slowly closed after them. You make your own conclusions then.
the commercial stinks!
Too much talky.
Too little showy.
Go away.
How boring that was
No... YOU"RE boring.
@@philipanderson4673 now how would you know that?
@@patrickdale2603 your remark.
@@philipanderson4673 uhhh no...apparently it was your response stupid