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* [[Deleted Scene]]: We only see the last part of what was originally a longer sequence of Robin recruiting Friar Tuck. Originally Robin forces Tuck to carry him across the river, then Tuck overcomes Robin and forces him to carry him back, and finally the part seen in the film where Robin regains the advantage. This results in both of them having inexplicably wet legs before they enter the river.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Errol Flynn was Australian.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Horse!]]: Maid Marian rides a palomino named Golden Cloud. Golden Cloud would later go on to achieve fame as [[Roy Rogers]]' [[Cool Horse]] Trigger.
* [[Notable Original Music]]: Korngold's lush romantic score, dubbed "Robin Hood in the Vienna Woods" by one wag. Notable for its use of [[Leitmotif]].
* [[Production Posse]]: Shares many key cast (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone) and crew (direct Michael Curtiz, composer Erich Korngold, fight arranger Fred Cavens) with ''[[Captain Blood]]''.
* [[Purple Prose]]: The original script was full of it, but Curtiz thankfully had it toned down.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Many people have cited the shots of people being shot with arrows as looking unrealistic. In actuality, stuntmen were paid $150 an arrow to be legitimately shot while wearing protection.
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[[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]] was initially reluctant to be associated with the "90% action picture"; however, the Warners were insistent, offering extremely generous payment for his services, and he at last agreed, leaving his native Austria just in time to escape its annexation by [[Those Wacky Nazis]] in March 1938. The Jewish Korngold was later [[Deadpan Snarker|accustomed to say]], "Robin Hood saved my life." It is said that Warners provided a [[Shown Their Work|voluminous report on 12th century music]] to the composer, which he promptly [[Did Not Do the Research|dumped into the wastebasket]] (''but see'' [[Regional Riff]], ''below''); in the event, Korngold's lush Late Romantic score, characterized by [[Richard Wagner|Wagnerian]] themes and [[Leitmotif|Leitmotiifs]], not only won the [[Academy Award]], but set a pattern for Film Music that has lasted down to the days of [[John Williams]] and [[Hans Zimmer]].
Other notable talents engaged for the film included fencing master Fred Cavens (yet another veteran of ''[[Captain Blood]]''!) to [[Flynning|choreograph]] the [[Sword Fight|duels]] and [[The Archer|champion archer]] Howard Hill to perform the film's archery (and to appear in the small part of the "Captain of Archers"). There is some debate as to whether Hill actually accomplished the famous shot with which Robin splits an arrow with another arrow (the [[
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