Ian McLellan Hunter

A musical dance comedy in which two collegiate trumpet players (Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith) vie for the affections of a young lady (Paulette Goddard), who becomes secretary to a band led by Artie Shaw, and depicts their antics to become members of the band.

A princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.

One of Robin's men returns to his village to visit his family. Upon hearing this news, the sheriff convinces the villagers to have the man charged with a recent murder in the area.

Robin and Edgar lighten the load of a greedy, crooked moneylender Herbert of Doncaster by taking his purse full of money and giving its contents back to the poor villagers and farmers from whom he took it. When Will Scatlock is mortally wounded, he uses his dying breath to pass the leadership of his gang over to Robin Hood.

Nottingham's tax collectors find it harder and harder to collect the county's levied assessments. When the Sheriff of Nottingham decides to make an example of Will Stukely, a poor farmer who could not pay his taxes, by hanging him, Robin Hood tricks the Sheriff into leaving the walled town, capturing him, and offering to trade his life in exchange for the condemned man's.

Robin stumbles onto a young boy in the forest who wants to join the Merry Men. However, Robin suspects the boy is of royal Norman birth, and sets to understand the boy's real origins.

Queen Eleanor arrives back in England and engages Robin and his men to protect her while she travels around the country. This enrages the Sheriff of Nottingham who constructs a plan to discredit Robin.

When Lady Marian is told by her Nanny that her grandson has been taken by Count de Walden's soldiers, Robin is soon at hand to uncover the Counts plans.