Robin Hood

If you are looking for a story simply about Korngold's years in Hollywood, then this DVD is not it. It is however a wonderful exploration into the music of this forgotten composer, and very thoughtfully done I believe.

This somniferous, undistinguished, and lightweight recording contains about 18 minutes of cues from Erich Wolfgang Korngold's film symphony which is the focus of this review.

The score for The Adventures of Robin Hood won Erich Wolfgang Korngold an Academy Award for what was his "first" swashbuckler score. He had declined to take on-screen-compositional credit for the score of Captain Blood, 1936, even though he wrote all but the 2-3 minutes he lifted from Liszt.

That's Errol Flynn looking dashing in the trees of Sherwood Forest in this 1938 swashbuckler about the hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. As far as the movies are concerned, Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood, and this Warner Bros. film directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and William Keighley (Each Dawn I Die) is a pulse-quicken[Read More]

That's Errol Flynn looking dashing in the trees of Sherwood Forest in this 1938 swashbuckler about the hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. As far as the movies are concerned, Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood, and this Warner Bros. film directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) and William Keighley (Each Dawn I Die) is a pulse-quicken[Read More]