I’m taping an old Errol Flynn version of the movie above (gets 4 stars from the cable reviewer).
One of the things I heard or read about this film is the sounds of the arrows is unlike any other film. Turns out a special effects guy mad special arrows for the movie.
Gonna check it out, and I invite you to do so, too.
I assume that you mean The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938 and also starring Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone. It’s a classic film. I’m just surprised that it’s new to you. I’ve seen it on television multiple times since I was a child.
I know nothing of arrow sounds, but Mythbusters did a segment on the, er, segmenting of the arrow in the 1938 film. Turns out that the shafts were made of that favourite medieval English wood - bamboo.
Love the Errol Flynn version. Kevin Costner version suxxx. (yes, I used the stupid spelling intentionally)
We watch it often but I can’t say I ever noticed anything about the sound effects. It’s just solid filmmaking in the late '30’s. And who wouldn’t love a swashbuckling cad like Errol Flynn and the beautiful Olivia de Havilland. <swoon>
The single greatest swashbuckler of all time. One of the top maybe three soundtrack scores of all time. One of the greatest Technicolor films of all time.
When I took it out of “Classics” and put it in the store’s “Recommended” section, suddenly we can’t keep it in the store. Had to buy an extra copy.
The Adventures of Robin Hood was directed by Michael Curtiz, who later directed Casablanca. In the same year as Robin Hood (1938), he also directed Angels with Dirty Faces, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. Those are three truly great films.
Michael Curtiz was the complete opposite of a Woody Allen or a Martin Scorsese. He was not an auteur, but rather the compleat studio man. He would be given assignments about what films to direct, then do a bang-up job.
I’ve read that Cagney was the first choice for Robin Hood as well. I love James Cagney and think he was a great actor, but Robin Hood? That I don’t see.