Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing technicolour adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold--music that became a template for countless later movies, notably John Williams' Star Wars and Indiana Jones scores. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor". Stocky Alan Hale Sr plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks' silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. --Sean Axmaker
One of the more unusual reunions of a 1970's music act happened on September 15th 2007 at the Hollywood Key Club - legendary Latin Rock Fusion act Azteca (a short-lived Latin Jazz Fusion supergroup) appeared for the first time in more than 30 years.Created and arranged by documentary producer Daniel E. Mesa this concert reunited original members Pete Escovedo vocalists Wendy Haas and Errol Knowles bassist Paul Jackson guitarist Bill Courtial percussionist Victor Pantoja trombonist Jules Rowell and former Miles Davis and Chick Corea drummer Lenny White.Intermixed with the live content the DVD also contains impressions from the rehearsals detailed interviews with individual musicians and Bonus songs. Tracklisting 1. Mamita Linda 2. Main Titles 3. Reuniting 4. Coke's Vision 5. Expectations 6. Prayer & Reflections 7. Ain't Got No Special Woman 8. Azteca 9. Record Contract 10. The 17 Members Quiz 11. Non Pacem 12. Money Issues 13. Tension & Drugs 14. Someday We'll Get By 15. Pyramid Of The Moon 16. Peace Everybody 17. The End Of Azteca 18. Watcha Gonna Do 19. Epilogue 20. End Credits
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