MAID MARIAN:   You speak treason!
ROBIN HOOD:   …Fluently.

    Another DVD to buy in September.
    Warners Brothers hopes to equal the gorgeous Technicolor restoration of Singin\’ in the Rain when they release the classic Errol Flynn movie Adventures of Robin Hood on September 30. Warners will also be releasing two other special editions that day, the black & white classics Yankee Doodle Dandy and Treasure of Sierra Madre. The three films will be available separately or as a boxed set.
    According to Video Business: “Warner spent three years putting the films through its patent-pending Ultra-Resolution process to improve the picture quality, just as the studio did with last year’s release of Singin’ in the Rain. Each release will include the new segment Warner Bros. Night at the Movies, which seeks to recreate the original ’30s filmgoing experience with news reels, cartoons and trailers from the year of each film’s release. Film historian Leonard Maltin hosts the segments, sprinkling in film facts.
    “[…] The Adventures of Robin Hood will include a commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer, a music-only track, the 65^th anniversary documentary Welcome to Sherwood: The Story of the Adventures of Robin Hood, classic Looney Tunes cartoons [“Robin Hood Daffy̶ presumably], vintage Warner movie shorts, a featurette on Robin Hood adaptations through the ages, home movies from the set, outtakes and radio broadcasts.”
    Some of the extras (the commentary, the home movies, and the look at other adaptations) sound very much like those on The Criterion Collection laserdisc. The music-only track, of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s stellar score, should be very cool, depending on how good the source sounds. (A recent CD issue by Turner and Rhino was rather overmodulated.) Even so, the disc should be a must buy, if only to again see the dashing Errol Flynn alongside the beauteous Olivia de Havilland.