THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD Tribute to Ray Bradbury and His Lifetime Love Affair with the Movies

One of Ray Bradbury’s favorites (he claims to have seen it at least two dozen times) The Adventures of Robin Hood is a true classic of the swashbuckling genre and one of the great “fun” movies of all time. In 1938, Variety said this about the film “Robin Hood and his Sherwood Forest gangsters who saved England from royal treachery during the absence of crusading Richard the Lion Hearted live again in films. Warners revives the legend with Errol Flynn in the role in which Douglas Fairbanks scored his first big success. It is cinematic pageantry at its best. A highly imaginative telling of folklore, in all the hues of Technicolor, Robin Hood is done in the grand manner of silent day spectacles with sweep and breadth of action, swordplay and hand-to-hand battles between Norman and Saxon barons.