I just watched the best damned movie ever made.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood.



And I'll personally hire Skittles to kick the ass of anyone here what sez it ain't so.

YES INDEED.

[WCGreen]

1. The Skippers Dad was Little John....

[Skittles]

2. Errol Flynn was something else

yes INDEED :D

[jobycom]

3. Did you watch Robin Hood before or after you watched Amadeus?

[Bucky]

4. Wasn't Errol Flynn also a Nazi spy ?

I think I read that somewhere.

[CBGLuthier]

5. Rumors. But he did have a neat party trick involving a piano and his penis

[Captain Hilts]

7. Charles Higham said so. Others said Flynn wasn't smart enough to be a spy for anyone. nt

[BuelahWitch]

8. Film historian friends of mine say Charles Higham is a hack writer

I've never read his book on Flynn, but his Louis B. Mayer biography is full of holes.

[Captain Hilts]

11. That is very true.

I've done some work with film biographers and the field is wildly fictional. William Mann's biography of Katharine Hepburn outstanding among those completely fictional. The positive reviews this book generated - from film reviewers - illustrates why film reviewers should stick to reviewing films and leave dealing with 'non'-fiction to those who know non-fiction when they see it.

[Dr Morbius]

6. It's a great movie.

Not the best, but quite good. Citizen Kane is up there somewhere; it really is that good. Casablanca, The Godfather; it's tough for me to guess which one truly is the best movie ever made.

Skittles will have a hard time finding me, I'm not quite sorry to say.

[WinkyDink]

9. You got my vote! Well, maybe 2nd to Ty Power's "Zorro"!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Clearly you never saw Samurai Cop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFvoxWFKPoI

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Certainly when compared to Kostner's shitbucket and the newest abomination of fecal discharge.

Erol Flynn's is fucking classic. CLASSIC!

I also like the version that ended up in ST:TNG episode "Qpid". Pretty funny.

[Godhumor]

13. You didn't write "Tombstone"

Therefore, I must disagree.

[mike_c]

14. LOL-- I've had to click back on this thread four times...

...because I can't stop laughing at that green costume! It has lapels! It would look good on Tinkerbell! :rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. You think THAT'S a hoot-

Dig the bright red feathers in Will Scarlet's cap!

[nolabear]

17. We're men...Men in tights! (Tight tights!)

[bikebloke]

16. I grew up with it in black & white.

When the DVD came out, I finally saw it in glorious Sherwood colour. It's a classic's classic. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for other interpretation of Robin Hood. I like the Beeb's latest series.


And I'll give Ridley's gritty version a chance when the DVD comes out.

**I don't really watch DVD extras, but watched some with Flynn's DVD. Olivia de Havilland was talking about the scene where Robin climbed up the vine to Marian's window for a snog. Olivia had a crush on Errol, so she kept flubbing the shot so she could continue kissing him. In the end Errol's tights were tighter.

[Seneca]

18. My vote goes to "Lawrence of Arabia"

Those David Lean epics were hard to beat. And the score by Maurice Jarre is strikingly beautiful.