The Adventures of Robin Hood opened almost simultaneously at both Warner Bros. Downtown (Seventh and Hill) and Warner Bros. Hollywood (on Hollywood Boulevard at Wilcox.) Here is an ad for the openings that ran on May 12 in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood at the Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre
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The Adventures of Robin Hood at Warner Bros. Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard
— Tim
Gentleman Tim
May 14, 2020 at 3:44 pm
May 14, 1938
Excerpts from Louella O. Parsons’ Review of The Adventures of Robin Hood:
The Adventures of Robin Hood is the most exciting costume play of this or any other era. Cunningly combining melodrama, romance, ans colorful adventure, it romps along at Twentieth Century speed, making us forget we are seeing legenday characters who lived in the swashbuckling of early England.
Robin Hood comes to us in the person of dashing Errol Flynn.
There couldn’t be a lovelier Maid Marian than Olivia de Havilland.
Basil Rathbone gives one of his topping performances as Sir Guy of Gisbourne.
Much credit goes to that splendid director, Michael Curtiz.
The music, bt Erich Wolfgang Korngold, is enchanting.
The photography, by Tony Gudio and Sol Polito, is poetic.
The Technicolor adds materially to the beauty of the picture.