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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 14, 2018 1:13:52 GMT
According to Wiki, Robin Hood has been with us for a long long (long) time. Dependng on our particular personal time frame we know many versions of the story and may have different faces on our Robins. The supporting characters are often even more fascinating that the lead ! The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - still one of the best.  Just plain fun - even if not a fan of Disney "adaptations", this one actually works. (imo)  So: Robin Hood is now open for discussion, sharing images, what-have-you. Looking forward to seeing what develops. |
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Post by alfromni on Jan 14, 2018 3:16:51 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jan 14, 2018 4:27:48 GMT
My work partner is in Nottingham this weekend to see the musical 'Thriller', rock city alright U K! He's an engineer who loves '60s music and heavy Russian literature lol.
I'm all about Michael Curtiz's 'The Adventures Of Robin Hood', far and away my favourite interpretation of the legend, my favourite Errol Flynn picture and my favourite swordplay picture of all time.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 14, 2018 4:33:34 GMT
petrolinoand it's just FUN ! from start to finish ! One of those "would not change a thing even if I could" gems !
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 14, 2018 7:29:34 GMT
You speak treason.
Fluently.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 14, 2018 22:54:51 GMT
1976  |
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Post by politicidal on Jan 15, 2018 0:13:51 GMT
 It's massively uneven in terms of tone perhaps but remains consistently entertaining. This is my favorite Robin Hood film alongside the '38 Errol Flynn version. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 15, 2018 1:38:02 GMT
I watched a 1950s one--The Men of Sherwood Forest.
Don Taylor does a reasonable Flynn impression but his voice!
Dub it men! Dub it!
I also like the Sword of Sherwood Forest but I am not really a Richard Greene fan.
The rest of the cast is what makes it interesting, especially the villain played by Richard Pasco who has more respect for Robin than the Sheriff.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 15, 2018 1:50:06 GMT
Disney did a Robin Hood starring Richard Todd: “ The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men” (1952). I’m sure I saw it way-back -when but don’t remember anything about it. Richard Todd in “The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men”  Wait, I do remember something; I felt it wasn’t as good as one of my favorite TV shows, “ The Adventures Of Robin Hood,” starring another Richard: Richard Greene. I can still sing the theme song (“Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen / Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his band of men…”). Monty Python did a parody using that tune. “Robin Hood” played in the U.S. on CBS from1955-1959, 143 total episodes. In 1960, Hammer Films decided to bring the series to the big screen with “ Sword Of Sherwood Forest” (already mentioned). They brought on their top director (Terence Fisher) to helm the project. Richard Greene was the only actor from TV to reprise his role. Instead, some top actors from the Hammer stable were employed: Sarah Branch as Maid Marian, Peter Cushing as the Sherriff of Nottingham, and Richard Pascoe as Newark. Production values, however, are only slightly higher than in the TV series so I don’t necessarily recommend this film just on its own merits, but mainly as a pleasant nostalgic pastime. Richard Greene in “Sword Of Sherwood Forest”  BTW, I will repeat all the praise so far (and later to come) lavished on the 1938 Errol Flynn action film for the ages. |
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Post by wanton87 on Jan 15, 2018 2:10:36 GMT
This is my favorite incarnation of Robin Hood (Oh come on now. You knew some wise ass was going to post this  ) |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 15, 2018 2:28:14 GMT
Some of the movies and TV shows that followed were quite good but Errol Flynn will ALWAYS be Robin Hood.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 16, 2018 10:07:54 GMT
The TV series Robin Hood (2006-2009).  While it wasn’t without its flaws, I still really enjoyed it. Well...the first two seasons, anyway (the third season is best left forgotten/ignored except for Robin & Marian’s reunion). And, of course, the movie Robin Hood: Men in Tights is one I always get a few laughs out of watching whenever it's on TV. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 16, 2018 15:13:59 GMT
With the huge success of Hercules the Legendary Journeys, TV producers were looking for all the heroes they could find and one of them was Robin Hood. I think the show aired on TNT (iirc). It was pretty enjoyable. www.imdb.com/title/tt0115289/?ref_=tt_rec_tt |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 16, 2018 23:07:02 GMT
A French-ified version of Robin turns up in Shrek  |
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Post by louise on Jan 17, 2018 8:05:57 GMT
Richard Greene will always be Robin Hood to me, I was utterly enraptured by the tv series the adventures of Robin Hood at a very early age.
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Post by alfromni on Jan 18, 2018 13:12:41 GMT
I loved The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood with George Segal as RH.  |
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Post by teleadm on Jan 18, 2018 18:58:10 GMT
  Dick Gautier as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks short-lived sit-com When Things Were Rotten 1975   How about an Italian Robin Hood, Giuliano Gemma in L'arciere di fuoco aka Long Live Robin Hood 1971   Barrie Ingham and his Merry Men in Hammer Films "Big Epic" A Challenge for Robin Hood 1967 |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 18, 2018 22:25:23 GMT
Tom Riley’s Robin Hood in Doctor Who.  He liked to laugh a lot.   In fact, he enjoyed laughing SO much that it got on other people’s nerves.   Of course, that was when he wasn’t busy flirting with Clara.  |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 18, 2018 22:56:06 GMT
How about an Italian Robin Hood, Giuliano Gemma in L'arciere di fuoco aka Long Live Robin Hood 1971 Speaking of Italian, I watched another Italian Robin Hood recently. The Triumph of Robin Hood 1962 They also made a lot of Zorro movies in Europe. One of them has a plot remarkably similar to the Mask of Zorro--he is thrown in prison for 20 years and his two daughters rescue him. I still need to see it. |
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jan 8, 2019 7:27:57 GMT
Literally just rewatched this > The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0038326/referenceSplendid  Well buckle my swash son of Robin Hood! The Bandit of Sherwood Forest is directed by George Sherman and Henry Levin and collectively written by Wilfrid H. Pettitt, Melvin Levy and Paul A. Castleton. It stars Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniel, George Macready and Russell Hicks. Music is by Hugo Fridehofer and cinematography is shared between Tony Gaudio, William Snyder and George B. Meehan. A wonderful spin on the Robin Hood legend, this finds Robin Hood (Hicks) enlisting the help of his son Robert (Wilde) in stopping the nefarious members of the Regency who seek to basically abolish the Magna Carta. What follows in narrative trajectory terms is the usual array of fights and face-offs, with bow and arrows skills supplementing the swordplay. There is of course some simmering passions at work, whilst loyalty and camaraderie is never ever far away. There's such a sense of fun about the picture, it's like everyone is enjoying playing in a costume adventure. The Technicolor is luscious and the set design and art direction is impressive, more so when put into context the modest budget allocated to the production by Columbia. The draw card is Wilde, a one time Olympic standard fencer, he utterly convinces as a swashbuckler and has charm in abundance. It's very unlikely anyone will ever fill a Robin Hood based film role with the panache that Errol Flynn did back in 1938, but Wilde most assuredly nails down a marker for one of the genre's best. Not all the costuming strikes as period reflective, neither does one or two character accents, but it matters not one jot. A sometimes rousing and often engaging swashbuckling adventure, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest is one of the better "Hood" movies out there. 8/10 |
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