Robin Hood

Unrated

10/18/19222h 13m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!

Director:

Allan Dwan

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

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Key words:

robber
robin hood
archer
sword fight
silent film

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks

~ as ~

Robin Hood

Enid Bennett

~ as ~

Lady Marian Fitzwalter

Wallace Beery

~ as ~

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Sam De Grasse

~ as ~

Prince John

Alan Hale

~ as ~

Little John

Bud Geary

~ as ~

Will Scarlett

Willard Louis

~ as ~

Friar Tuck

Lloyd Talman

~ as ~

Allan-a-Dale

Paul Dickey

~ as ~

Sir Guy of Gisbourne

William Lowery

~ as ~

The High Sheriff of Nottingham

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
This is probably the most complete of the cinematic tales of this hero of 13th Century English folklore. Douglas Fairbanks assumes the role of the fabled Earl of Huntingdon before King Richard (Wallace Beery) heads off on the Third Crusade. It is only whilst on that holy mission that he discovers the brutality being carried out at home by the King's errant brother Prince John (the superbly ferret-like Sam de Grasse). He feigns an excuse to the King to return home without explaining why, but falls foul of one of John's spies and is left, injured and betrayed, to rot in a foreign tower. Luckily, "Little John" (Alan Hale) is also left and soon they are free, home and rallying the people against their would-be-usurper and his fiendishly horrid sidekicks "Guy of Gisbourne" (Paul Dickey) and the High Sheriff (William Lowery). The former of these two glorified hoodlums takes a shine to the "Lady Marion" (Enid Bennett) but can Huntingdon - now adopting the moniker "Robin Hood" save her from his evil machinations, and thwart the power hungry ambitions of Prince John in time? The biggest budget of the time ($1.5m) went into this and it is easy to see how - the sets, especially around Nottingham castle, are superb; the cast plentiful and the end to end action scenes really are a joy to watch. Fairbanks thinks nothing of scaling an hundred foot wall or fighting off dozens of the Prince's (admittedly pretty hopeless) soldiers as he determines to free his land from oppression and return it to true government. Bennett is beautiful as "Marion"; she has a feistiness that you don't always see in the frequently soporific heroines of the 1920s where the eyes were the prize. The star is at the top of his swashbuckling game, indulged totally by Allan Dwan and Arthur Edeson's grand scale - sometimes intimate - but certainly rousing photography. Fabulous entertainment, this....