Eighty years ago this month, Warner Brothers’ The Adventures of Robin Hood was released ... and in Zorro he was up against Basil Rathbone, reputedly one of Hollywood’s finest swordsmen ...

Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx and Ben Mendelsohn lead the cast in the latest big-screen iteration of the classic adventure story 'Robin Hood ... certainly did when Basil Rathbone dueled so memorably ...

Many versions of the Robin Hood story contain the same leadership ... by one of Hollywood's great swashbuckling villains: Basil Rathbone (a few years before he became synonymous with Sherlock ...

Also stars Olivia DeHavilland as Marian, Claude Rains, and Basil Rathbone. Directed by Michael Curtiz ( Casablanca). 3. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) When Robin Hood's father ...

and Basil Rathbone turns in a sinister performance as Guy of Gisborne, the antagonist who provides the most opportunity for Robin Hood to bust out his sword. Besides amusing character moments for ...

and The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South African Republic, to English parents Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the ...

A Robin Hood movie definitely not intended for children ... such as the dueling shadows of Robin and Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) in the climax, or Robin stealing away Maid Marian (Olivia ...

Nobody played the bad guy like Rathbone and his next role in The Adventures of Robin Hood cemented him as the ... of a process which saw the end of Basil Rathbone the Shakesperian star and the ...