![]() The Saxons respect King Richard Plantagenet despite his Norman lineage because he is fair, but the rest of the Norman rulers are not. One of the other things I liked in this movie was that it goes into how England was really two different groups of people: the Saxons who were the common people and the Normans who were the ruling class going back over a century to the victory of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. The cast is also top-notch: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Haviland, Claude Rains lead the cast, but everyone plays their respective roles as well as could be done and the characters are all distinctive and memorable. Outdoor location shooting, huge castle sets for both interiors and exteriors and fantastic costumes, every bit of that $2,000,000 is on the screen. Made for $2,000,000 ($35,000,000 adjusted for inflation) and shot in Technicolor this was the most expensive movie produced by Warner Bros. Instead, I would check out 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood, which somehow I had never got around to seeing. When that terrible Robin Hood movie starring Ray Charles and Elton John was released a couple of months back decided I would never watch it. ![]()
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