Tremendous adventure score from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) performed life by John Wilson Orchestra. What a privilege must have been to be able to enjoy it like that. The soundtrack by Erich Wolfgang Korngold went on to win an Academy Award for Best Music in 1938. Initially, though, he turned down the idea of writing the score of an adventure film that would literally save his life, as he would later put it.
While in Hollywood he learned that the Nazis were about to invade Austria and, feeling he had to secure a source of revenue in the United States and also get his family out of Austria before the invasion, he accepted the assignment. He would go on to win the Oscar. For the rest of his life, Korngold, grateful that this successful assignment allowed him to stay in America and be safe from the Nazis' murderous persecution, would playfully quip, "Robin Hood saved my life."