COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“ROBIN HOOD.” * Tn line with their policy of presenting the pick of screen entertainment Io their patrons, the Cosy Theatre will their patrons, the Cosy Theatre will have as its feature attraction this evening, "The Adventures of Robin Hood,” as massive technicolour melodrama, produces by Warner Bros., starring Erol Flynn, and featuring Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, lan Hunter and a supporting cast of some thousand players. The handsome young star, Errol Flynn, who had such triumphs in "Captain Blood” and "The Charge of the Light Brigade” plays Robin. The beautiful young Olivia de Havilland, who was the heroine of those successes, is Maid Marian. This is their third picture together and is said by previewers to excel its predecessors. This version of "The Adventures of Robin Hood” is altogether different from the great picture which Douglas Fairbanks made in silent form in 1922. It is filled with fighting—bows and arrows, quarter staffs, pikes "and broadswords being the weapons —and is played in immense and beautiful scenic settings both indoors and out. In the supporting cast are such star players as Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, lan Hunter, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Patrie Knowles, Una O’Connor, Herbert Mundin and Montagu Love. A superb musical score, written by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who made musical history with his scores for “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and other great pictures, is said to surpass anything ever done before.