The Adventures of Robin Hood. 1938. Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

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The Adventures of Robin Hood. 1938. USA. Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Courtesy Warner Brothers.

The Adventures of Robin Hood. 1938. USA. Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale. 35mm restoration by The Museum of Modern Art, with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation; courtesy Warner Bros. 102 min.

Michael Curtiz’s Robin Hood is the definitive film version of this classic tale—Errol Flynn was born to play the folk hero—and is vital to the history of three-strip Technicolor. Although the Warner Bros. publicity machine crowed that “only the rainbow can duplicate its brilliance,” Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio’s visual design and color palette were in fact far more subtle and complex, as MoMA’s restoration painstakingly reveals.

This film accompanies Eye Candy: The Coming of Color.

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