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This underrated Richard Lester film is really a classic--and one of the most romantic movies ever made. Working from James Goldman's script, Lester casts Sean Connery as an aged Robin Hood, returned after years away at the Crusades with an increasingly mad King Richard (Richard Harris). Robin and Little John (a very funny Nicol Williamson) return to find that the sheriff of Nottingham (Robert Shaw) is up to his old nasty tricks--and that Maid Marian (Audrey Hepburn) is now a nun. Lester brings the same touch to this period film that he did to The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, blending authenticity with a knowing wink at the conventions of period films. But the heart of this film is the very palpable emotion between Hepburn and Connery (and between Connery and Williamson). The ending is guaranteed three hankies, minimum. --Marshall Fine
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This underrated Richard Lester film is really a classic--and one of the most romantic movies ever made. Working from James Goldman's script, Lester casts Sean Connery as an aged Robin Hood, returned after years away at the Crusades with an increasingly mad King Richard (Richard Harris). Robin and Little John (a very funny Nicol Williamson) return to find that the sheriff of Nottingham (Robert Shaw) is up to his old nasty tricks--and that Maid Marian (Audrey Hepburn) is now a nun. Lester brings the same touch to this period film that he did to The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, blending authenticity with a knowing wink at the conventions of period films. But the heart of this film is the very palpable emotion between Hepburn and Connery (and between Connery and Williamson). The ending is guaranteed three hankies, minimum. --Marshall Fine
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By D. Herbert
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I remember seeing this in a cinema during a wet holiday in Wales when it was on general release. My mother cried her eyes out at the end and my brother and I weren't far behind. Words like beautiful, poignant and sensitive get used a lot in movie reviews but they all apply to this, by far the best treatment of the Robin Hood legend ever on film. Because Lester shows us a plausible Robin, as he might actually have been, but allows for some decent, if arthritic, heroics too - it's not a 'debunking' sort of movie. Someone else here has described the story as 'silly', which is banal and misses the point that whilst there's plenty of action this is not an action movie requiring a complex plot and a villain who dies three times. It's a character study about ageing, change and the ways in which the protagonists choose to deal with it. Suffice to say that an ageing Robin returns to England a lordless man and attempts to make the world the way it was when he was younger and happier, a bit like an old rock band doing a revival tour. The Sheriff, sadly for both of them, is still around and the relationship between the two is one of the best adversary-dynamics I've ever seen on film.
Hard to say more specifically without spoiling it too much. But I think the movie is really about what Dylan Thomas meant when he wrote 'rage, rage against the dying of the light'. Only someone very young and lacking in empathy would not 'get' this film, - so get this film.
Hard to say more specifically without spoiling it too much. But I think the movie is really about what Dylan Thomas meant when he wrote 'rage, rage against the dying of the light'. Only someone very young and lacking in empathy would not 'get' this film, - so get this film.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
Offers a very believable but alternative view of how Robin ends his days with Marian at Kirklee Abbey.
The scenes are some of the most realistically portrayed I've ever seen: Robin and Little John get puffed out on scaling Nottingham castle's walls, waking up in a cold forest first thing in the morning is a shock to the system for all and the final battle is a one-on-one struggle to make you flinch. I for one have never seen such easy-to-identify-with real life touchs in a film, before or since. They made me smile.The extras dot the entrance and exits of scenes with clever touchs of Pythonesque humour too.
Add to this the underlying love story with the action and you have a highly enjoyable film, sometimes profound, mostly light-hearted but always gripping for the both the men and the ladies.
Connery, Hepburn, Shaw and Harris interpret their characters with great skill and perform superbly.
Highly entertaining, highly recommended.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By D Skilton
Format:DVD
This is really a great little film. It offers a totally different take on the Robin Hood story. Robin and Little John return to England older and wiser after 20 years with the Crusades. They find Nottingham still in the grip of the Sheriff. So they team up with their old comrades and do battle. Robin also rekindles his relationship with Marian who is now a Nun. This film has an inspired cast and a wonderful script. Also a good music score by the always reliable John Barry. Sean Connery has never been better as Robin and Audrey Hepburn is her usual lovely self as Marian. Also special mention to Robert Shaw as the Sheriff, Nicol Williamson as Little John and Richard Harris in a cameo as a mad Richard The Lionheart.
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Much under rated classic.
ROBIN AND MARION DVD 2002
Richard Lester's ROBIN AND MARION is one of those much under rated films which slipped by almost unnoticed at during it's general release and... Read more
Richard Lester's ROBIN AND MARION is one of those much under rated films which slipped by almost unnoticed at during it's general release and... Read more
Published 10 days ago by BlackBrigand
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Good full screen version.
I love this film anyway, but this wide screen version looks nice and there are a few scenes I did not recall from the last time I watched it.
Published 2 months ago by M. Gowlett
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I did like it
I did like it but It wasn't what I expected!
It was very depressing at the end and I did get bored at points! There were some fun parts in it. Read more
It was very depressing at the end and I did get bored at points! There were some fun parts in it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Julie
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not the usual Sean Connery !
Simple story, couldn't wait for it to end.If you are expecting the best from Sean Connery then you will be disappointed
Published 4 months ago by LOTTO WIZARD
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not their usual type roles
This film has it all, action, comedy and the love interest.
You'll watch this film over and over and not get bored with it.
You'll watch this film over and over and not get bored with it.
Published 5 months ago by Christine M
5.0 out of 5 stars
Growing old disgracefully
Robin and Marian concerns the return of an aging Robin of Loxely from the crusades. Disillusioned with and finally free from his debt due to the death of the mad King he swore... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Horse to water
4.0 out of 5 stars
Misses the target but hits the heart...
This version of the Robin Hood story must be one of the most interesting. It creates a rather odd story, made stranger for the fact that Spain stands in for Northern England, and... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Josh
5.0 out of 5 stars
Robin and Marian - Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in the most moving...
I was very very surprised when I first saw this film. Starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, both of them legends of heroic fantasy, I was expecting a thrilling rollercoaster of a... Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2010 by Victor
3.0 out of 5 stars
I've hardly lost a battle, and I don't know what I've won
Robin Hood and Little John return to England after the Crusades and the death of King Richard (a terrific, nasty little cameo from Richard Harris). Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by A. Willard
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful movie, an old tale with a new twist
Saw this years ago when it came out & just loved it, in fact I saw it several times at the theater in 1 week! Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2009 by Andy B
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