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DGA QUARTERLY 67 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) > William Keighley, who would receive a co-director credit, was replaced by Curtiz two months into production on Warners' most expensive picture to date, shot in what film scholar David Thomson described as "stained-glass Technicolor." Producer Hal Wallis later recalled that "only Mike Curtiz could give the picture the color and scope that it needed." According to Rode, the energetic pace and pictorial dynamics es- tablished by Curtiz were immediate. THE SEA WOLF (1941) > An adaptation of Jack London's celebrated novel, The Sea Wolf, was a marked departure from Curtiz's high seas forebears. "Instead of a rousing adventure film," Rode writes, "Curtiz staged The Sea Wolf as an exercise in anxiety-laden dread… The shots of the ship in motion are silently sepulchral."