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Score restorations by John Morgan. Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Stromberg.

1. Main Title/Muted Fanfare 1:49
2. Sir Guy and Robin Hood 1:49
3. The Meeting 1:11
4. The Banquet 2:14
5. Robin Hood Outside/Robin Hood's Entrance/The Fight/The Chase of Robin Hood/The Victims 6:13
6. Robin Hood Meets Uttle John/Robin Hood Fights with Uttle John/Jolly Friendship 3:56
7. The Oath and The Black Arrow 1:58
8. The Fish-Robin Hood's Fight with Friar Tuck 3:29
9. A New Companion (Friar Tuck) 0:56
10. Robin Hood Attacks Sir Guy's Party/The Attack 5:12
11. Flirt/Feast-Poor Peoples Feast/Gold 5:59
12. The Poor People 4:19
13. The Tournament/Robin Hood's Appearance at the Archery Field/Preparation for the Archery Contest/Robin Hood Starts to Shoot/Finale of the Archery Contest 6:38
14. Arrest of Robin Hood 0:47
15. Tribunal/The Jail 2:27
16. The Gallows/The Flight of Robin Hood 4:40
17. Love Scene 6:25
18. Arrest of Lady Marian 0:45
19. Much: The Knife Fight 1:10
20. Richard Meets Robin Hood/Richard the Lion Heart 4:03
21. The Procession 3:09
22. Prince John 1:33
23. The Battle/The Duel/The Victory 5:36
24. Epilogue 1:33
25. End Cast 0:35

"The Adventures of Robin Hood" may be the best of all Errol Flynn vehicles; it is unquestionably the best of all Robin Hood films. To avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of the Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale, Sr., who played this part three times in his long career) and the "piggy-back" episode between Robin and Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette, who despite his bulk holds his own during the dueling scenes). The film ties together the various ancient anecdotes with a storyline bounded by the capture in Austria of Richard the Lionhearted (Ian Hunter) on one end and Richard's triumphant return to England on the other. Robin Hood is already an outlaw at the outset of the film, while Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) is initially part of the enemy camp, as one of Prince John (Claude Rains)' entourage. Marian warms up to Robin's fight against injustice (and to Robin himself), eventually becoming a trusted ally. The Sheriff of Nottingham (Melville Cooper) is depicted as an ineffectual buffoon, giving full scope to the strenuous villainy of Sir Guy of Gisborne (Basil Rathbone). The climactic Robin/Gisborne duel features superb dialogue exchanges ("You've come to Nottingham once too often!" "When this is over, my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again") and closeups of the two opponents alternating with long shots of their shadows looming on the high castle walls. James Cagney was originally announced for the role of Robin Hood, just before Cagney left Warner Bros. in a salary dispute. William Keighley was the original director, but he worked too slowly to suit the tight production schedule and was replaced by Michael Curtiz (both men receive screen credit). A lengthy opening jousting sequence was shot but removed from the final print; portions of this sequence show up as stock footage in the 1957 Warners film "The Story of Mankind." That white horse ridden by deHavilland in the Sherwood Forest scenes later gained screen stardom as Roy Rogers' Trigger. 1938