April 28 movie: The Adventures of Robin Hood. I'm on the fence as to which is the better Errol Flynn movie: this or Captain Blood. I think this one maybe is a tiny bit better. They're both great though.
A few months ago Mythbusters did a movie myths episode where they tried to split an arrow all the way down the middle with another arrow, like Flynn does in this movie. They weren't able to do it. They could hit one arrow with another, and even partially split it. Then the piercing arrow would always follow the grain of the other arrow and pop out the side after a few inches. During the episode they showed some footage of the archer who had been Flynn's archery stunt man. That was cool.
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I imagine you could find some arrows with a cleavage plane running the length of the shaft.
As for Robin Hood in film, I'm almost always quoting the John Cleese version.