Dashing Errol Flynn triumphs in this lavish, fast-paced version of the Robin Hood legend, a winner of three Academy Awards in ravishing Technicolor. Doing many stunts himself, Flynn is at his athlettic, romantic best in a role originally intended for James Cagney. Olivia de Haviland (as Maid Marian), consummate screen villains Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains, and a boisterous who's who of character actors costar. Welcome to Sherwood!

Tales of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, who fought the forces of the evil Prince John, his local official the Sheriff of Nottingham and any aristocrat or ne'er-do-well who threatened the common people and loyal subjects of King Richard, whose return from the Crusades they awaited from their home in the shelter of Sherwood Forest.

An aged Robin Hood returns after years away at the Crusades and finds an increasingly mad King Richard. Robin and Little John return to find that the Sheriff of Nottingham is up to his old tricks, and that Maid Marian is now a nun.

After fighting heroically in the Crusades, Robin, returns to his homeland at the request of his king, only to discover that his people are suffering under the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Assembling a band of roguish warriors, the "outlaw" Robin Hood fights against injustice and courts the feisty Marian.