michael curtiz receive only a single academy award for direct the best of wartime espionage movie casablanca but make great classic like captain blood and the charge of the light brigade and the sea hawk and the adventure of robin hood and orchestrate enthusiastically great star and skilled technician . he refine with charm and elegance plot and character with fluid camera movement and exquisite lightning and mix action with peculiar sense of humor capture with brilliant photography the natural look of sherwood forest and the cool tone of nottingham castle and the inn at luton with it crackle fireplace . the film have great marvelous scene represent when robin decide to tackle with a staff little john ( alan hale ) while robin swordsplay with the gallant friar tuck ( eugene palette ) while robin and his forest outlaw give a warm welcome to lady marian and to the treasure wagon lead by sir guy and the high sheriff while the archery tournament while robin merry men enter nottingham castle while and the magnificent final duel and with a masterful score and between robin and sir guy . errol flynn be the best swashbuckler of the sound era . he be ideally cast a the saxon knight sir robin of locksley who become a rebel outlaw rob the rich to fee the poor . with his merry men he save saxon england against norman ambition . his most frequent enemy be the noisy high sheriff of nottingham ( melvin cooper ) and the evil bishop of black canon ( montagu love ) and the eloquent chief conspirator sir guy of gasbourne and and prince john . flynn splendid figure leaping and jumping and scaling and swing make him a great leader of men shelter the old and the helpless . he be a romantic hero twinkle with malice and gallantly court the exquisite olivia de havilland . olivia de havilland be a pretty and delicate woman in love with a brave and reckless outlaw . basil rathbone and superb a the arrogant sir guy of gisbourne and spread terror by torture and rival robin for lady marian . claude rain be the treacherous prince john who order his norman knight to oppress the helpless saxon suffocate them with theft and and burn their farm . he vow that robin must be capture . winner of 3 academy award ( art direction and original score and film edit ) the adventure of robin hood be a delighted tale of high adventure and a tale of action and colorful pageantry and a great film for all the family .