The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Theatrical release poster, by Alex Raymond
Directed by	Michael Curtiz William Keighley
Screenplay by	Norman Reilly Raine Seton I. Miller Rowland Leigh
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis Henry Blanke
Starring	Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Claude Rains Una O'Connor
Cinematography	Tony Gaudio Sol Polito W. Howard Greene (Technicolor photo)
Edited by	Ralph Dawson
Music by	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	May 14, 1938 (1938-05-14) (New York City) [1]
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,033,000[2][3]
Box office	$3,981,000[2][3]

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, it 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.