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Photo: Warner Bros. · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons Photo shows Errol Flynn as Robin Hood with Olivia de Havilland (1938 trailer)
Robin Hood
Errol Flynn's Technicolor outlaw of Sherwood Forest wears the dashing pencil mustache that made swashbuckling look effortless.
- Actor
- Errol Flynn
- Film
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Movie
- Style
- Pencil
- Fan Votes
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Why Robin Hood's Mustache Matters
Errol Flynn was the definitive swashbuckler of the 1930s, and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is the role that defined him. Shot in glorious three-strip Technicolor, the film features Flynn in green tights, a feathered cap and a slim, perfectly drawn pencil mustache that would become his trademark.
The mustache is pure adventure-hero styling — thin enough to look elegant, dark enough to read on camera, and always in place no matter how many castle walls he climbs. It is the template that Inigo Montoya, Zorro and countless others have since borrowed.
The film won three Academy Awards and remains one of the most entertaining adventure pictures of the studio era, mustache very much included.
- The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley and co-starred Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian.
- It won three Oscars: Art Direction, Film Editing and Original Score (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).
- Errol Flynn (1909–1959) was born in Hobart, Tasmania.
How to Grow the Pencil
Thin, sharp, and dangerous. The mustache of leading men, jazz cats, and people who own tuxedos.
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