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John Derek (The Ten Commandments) plays the role of Robin Hood’s son in this action-packed adventure. With England suffering under the rule of the villainous King John (George Macready, Gilda), Robin and his father’s loyal band fight countless battles with the king’s tax collectors and henchmen, who have corrupted the kingdom, oppressed the common folk, and brought false charges of treason and murder against the disenfranchised. When the tyrant has been deposed, Robin finally returns to the lovely Lady Marianne (Diana Lynn, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek) and just rule is restored. Briskly directed by Gordon Douglas (Harlow, Them!), this is grand fun for the entire family, and film buffs will especially appreciate the final screen appearance by Alan Hale, again playing Little John--as he did opposite both Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
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This is a UK Region 2 DVD ( and Region's 4 and 5 ) released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2009. The film runs to about 76 minutes and is presented Widescreen ( 16:9 ratio ).
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1950's Rogues of Sherwood Forest sees John Derek stepping into Errol Flynn's costume but never managing to fill it: a dull and wooden presence, he sets the tone for a lacklustre and perfunctorily executed hour-and-a-third that only has Alan Hale in his final film playing the role of Little John for the third time going for it. Unfortunately it only reminds you how much better Errol Flynn and even Douglas Fairbanks, for all his prancing and over-emoting, were in Lincoln Green. Not that Derek is actually playing Robin but his son, who finds himself up against King John, who's overtaxing the people once again to pay for an army of Flemish mercenaries to crush them even further before the barons can force him to sign the Magna Carta ("I'll build a gallows. It will be high and it will be strong," spits George Macready's treacherous monarch). While Diane Lynne's bland Maid Marianne sends him information from the castle via carrier pigeon, the newly outlawed Robin of Huntingdon and Little John decide to bring all the original Merry Men back together, which is an idea that has promise that the film never does anything with at all. With the exception of the final swordfight (initially on horseback), the action scenes are especially lazily thrown together with actors and stuntmen just going unenthusiastically through the motions because they know this is the kind of programmer it's not worth getting any bruises over. Even the Technicolor isn't anything to get excited about in a film that has contractual obligation written all over it and which even recycles some footage from the earlier and much more enjoyable The Bandit of Sherwood Forest. As Alan Hale says at the end, "Everything has been said, everything has been done."
The only extra is a trailer for Hammer's Sword of Sherwood Forest.
The only extra is a trailer for Hammer's Sword of Sherwood Forest.
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ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST
The 1950 Rogues of Sherwood Forest was the second film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the first being The Bandit of Sherwood Forest - 1946), and starred John Derek as Robin, Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, with Alan Hale, Sr. reprising his role as Little John for the third and final time, also his final film role. The leading role was originally offered to Gig Young who declined, an action which caused him to be dropped by Columbia making him available for the movie `Come Fill the Cup' for which he won an academy award.
Rogues of Sherwood Forest sees Robin of Huntingdon returning from the crusades to find that King John has begun his oppressive reign by hiring Flemish mercenaries to maintain his rule by military force and collect the Royal Taxes. Robin and Little John re-raise his father's band of Merrie Men and conduct a campaign of resistance against the King, eventually compelling King John to seal the Magna Carta.
The film is a pleasant, colourful effort, but appears lack lustre against Flynn's classic and at times seems to lack direction, and some of the action scenes could have benefited from better choreography. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
A book of the film was published in 1950 by Ward Lock and was released in the UK slightly ahead of the film and is illustrated with colour plates and stills from the movie.
The 1950 Rogues of Sherwood Forest was the second film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the first being The Bandit of Sherwood Forest - 1946), and starred John Derek as Robin, Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, with Alan Hale, Sr. reprising his role as Little John for the third and final time, also his final film role. The leading role was originally offered to Gig Young who declined, an action which caused him to be dropped by Columbia making him available for the movie `Come Fill the Cup' for which he won an academy award.
Rogues of Sherwood Forest sees Robin of Huntingdon returning from the crusades to find that King John has begun his oppressive reign by hiring Flemish mercenaries to maintain his rule by military force and collect the Royal Taxes. Robin and Little John re-raise his father's band of Merrie Men and conduct a campaign of resistance against the King, eventually compelling King John to seal the Magna Carta.
The film is a pleasant, colourful effort, but appears lack lustre against Flynn's classic and at times seems to lack direction, and some of the action scenes could have benefited from better choreography. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
A book of the film was published in 1950 by Ward Lock and was released in the UK slightly ahead of the film and is illustrated with colour plates and stills from the movie.
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I first saw this film on its first release around 1951 - I was 10 and enjoyed it for its colour and swashbuckling action.
I recently purchased the DVD through Amazon as part of a 3-disc Columbia set and enjoyed it all over again.
It's the best of the three films. The Richard Greene offering is dull, plodding and unimaginative by comparison, while Cornel Wilde's 'The Bandit of Sherwood Forest' is perhaps a little too showy - all the Merrie Men wear the same outfit but in a variety of brilliant colours - while the John Derek version falls somewhere in between. Still very colourful, but although several chase sequences are lifted straight out of the earlier film, as well as some recycled castle scenery, the finished article has the edge.
There is humour as well as action, and Alan Hale's Little John (reprising his appearance in the Errol Flynn classic) adds authority.
Great fun!
I recently purchased the DVD through Amazon as part of a 3-disc Columbia set and enjoyed it all over again.
It's the best of the three films. The Richard Greene offering is dull, plodding and unimaginative by comparison, while Cornel Wilde's 'The Bandit of Sherwood Forest' is perhaps a little too showy - all the Merrie Men wear the same outfit but in a variety of brilliant colours - while the John Derek version falls somewhere in between. Still very colourful, but although several chase sequences are lifted straight out of the earlier film, as well as some recycled castle scenery, the finished article has the edge.
There is humour as well as action, and Alan Hale's Little John (reprising his appearance in the Errol Flynn classic) adds authority.
Great fun!
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