The Adventures of Robin Hood
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The 21st century Robin Hoods might favour a darker or muddier colour palette, but for 1938 audiences seeing all the colours of rainbow on screen was a rare treat. Black-and-white movies are notable for their use of shadow, and yet Curtiz provides many striking uses of shadow in this film. The Casablanca BluRay has a documentary on director Michael Curtiz. In that documentary, director Steven Spielberg expresses giddy delight when he finally worked out how Curtiz achieved the shadows in The Adventures of Robin Hood, and then duplicated the trick in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Michael Curtiz - Hollywood Director, War Films, Casablanca: By 1938 Curtiz had become Warner Brothers’ most reliable moneymaker. He began the year inauspiciously with Gold Is Where You Find It, but then came The Adventures of Robin Hood, the studio’s biggest commercial success of that year. The quintessential Hollywood swashbuckler, it was a perfect blend of Flynn’s swagger, de Havilland ...
