Heartwarming / The Adventures of Robin Hood

• Just about any scene with Much the Miller's Son and Bess in it.
  Bess: You will be careful, wont you?
  Much: (bashful smile) Course I will.
• Robin bursts through the dungeon door after defeating Sir Guy and Marian runs into his arms. It's the smile that does it.
• Marian is still suspicious of Robin after he robs her caravan, saying his men will likely just keep the money for themselves. So Robin shouts the suggestion to them, and they all reply that they'll use it to pay King Richard's ransom.
  • After that scene, Robin takes Marian to a group of peasants to show her why he's committing treason. He asks if they have enough to eat and his tone of voice is concerned as opposed to his previous bravado. No wonder Marian begins warming up to him.
    Robin: I'm sorry for having to show you that. But once these people were happy and contented. Just simple villagers who never harmed a soul. And now, tortured, eyes put out, tongues slit, ears hacked off. They come to me for protection, against your Norman friends.
    Marian: But you've taken Norman lives.
    Robin: Yes, those that deserved it; the cruel and unjust.
    Marian: You're a strange man.
    Robin: Strange? Because I can feel for beaten, helpless people?
    Marian: No, you're strange because you want to do something about it. You're willing to defy Sir Guy, even Prince John himself, to risk your own life. And one of those men was a Norman.
    Robin: Norman or Saxon, what's that matter? It's injustice I hate, not the Normans.
    Marian: But it's lost you your rank, your lands. It's made you a hunted outlaw when you might have lived in comfort and security. What's your reward for all this?
    Robin: Reward...? You just don't understand, do you?
    Marian: I'm sorry. I do begin to see... a little now.
    Robin: If you do... then that's reward enough.
• Little John, upon learning that the man whom he beat in the quarterstaff fight was Robin Hood himself, asks if he would not hold their fight against him. Robin merrily tells him that not only does he not mind the experience, but he'd welcome the giant into the Merry Men.
• The moment when King Richard reveals himself to the Merry Men and they instantly kneel before him; in reply, the King notes in awe, "All these have remained loyal." It comes off as a glorious validation of everything Robin Hood and his band have been doing. After all, to King Richard, these men are not mere outlaws and bandits, but loyalist partisans who are determined to protect him and his right to the throne.
• Robin's final line in the movie is purely delightful. As part of a just reward for all he has done, King Richard "orders" Robin to wed Marian, and the couple start to slip out of the room. Robin looks back at the surprised king, beaming:
  "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, sire!"
• A Real Life moment is that this film gave Jewish composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold his one chance to make a living in Hollywood after the Nazis conquered Austria. When the film became a smash hit, Korngold knew he had won a secure place safe from the coming Holocaust; as he liked to quip, "Robin Hood saved my life."
• After Marian helps the Merry Men save Robin Hood from being executed, he heads back to her chambers both to thank her and ask her to marry him. It's commonly cited as one of the most romantic scenes in cinema.
• Near the climax, Robin Hood learns from a wounded Much that King Richard has returned to England and is endangered. He immediately orders his men to spread out and search for King Richard before John finds him. The abbot Robin invited to supper (after having given Robin a Secret Test of Character in asking the outlaw who was really at fault for England being left in this predicament) steps forward and tells Robin "he's in good hands, the best in England". Cue the abbot removing his cloak and revealing his armor and surcoat with the Plantagenet three gold lions on scarlet...

---