The Adventures of Robin Hood

Michael Curtiz and William Kneighley, 1938 (suom. "Robin Hoodin seikkailut")

This is a film I watched ever so many times as a kid and I just loved it. When I watch it now as an adult: ok, it is quite a "Hollywood" film with good acting and good spirit... but the music! The music just sends chills down my spine, especially the march before Prince John's to-be-failed coronation (and especially a certain part in which the chords suddenly modulate and the main theme viola makes a crazy jump a ninth higher and then comes down chromatically...). I've found myself whistling or humming to the tunes of this film tens of times as an adult... and now that I can read that the film won an Oscar for its music I'm not really surprised at simply justice having taken place. Claude Rains (Prince John) for some reason always does it for me, no matter which of his evil cunning aristocrat roles (such as in Casablanca or Lawrence of Arabia) we might speak of.