Robin Hood (1938)
Shit you not... saw a vital bit; not the whole thing - Olympics is on...
The exchange went, from a princess to Robin Hood; but you're thieves, robbers, murders... what will you do with all the money you've taken (from the king)
He then has a little good little exchange and asks her to come with him... he takes her and shows all these poor people, hungry, beaten up, abused,.. and literally says, they had their houses burned from the tax collectors, they come to him for protection... against the normans (the state), they'll give the money back to the people
The quality of it was epic.. color, all good actors, great exchanges - far better than anything that could be written today imo.