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Cornel Wilde (The Greatest Show on Earth) stars as the son of Robin Hood in this lavish Technicolor swashbuckler. William of Pembroke, Regent of England imprisons the young King of England, and moves to repeal the Magna Carta returning England to autocratic rule. Robert of Huntington (Wilde) joins his father and his reunited band of men to save the boy King and England from tyranny. Anita Louise plays Lady Catherine, Robert’s love interest. The cast also includes Jill Esmond (Random Harvest), Edgar Buchanan, George Macready, Russell Hicks (as Robin Senior), Lloyd Corrigan and many more. Tony Gaudio, the accomplished cinematographer (who shot the Errol Flynn version of the story in 1938) once again uses the Technicolor palette to bring Henry Levin’s lush conceptualisation of the Robin Hood tale to the screen. This is among the very finest depictions of one of England’s most fabled heroes.
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This is a UK Region 2 DVD released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2009.
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Although 1950's lacklustre Rogues of Sherwood Forest saw John Derek take on his fictional father's mantle to dispiritingly little effect, Columbia had done the whole son of Robin Hood thing four years earlier and much better in 1946's The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, with a slightly sleazy and wildly over-confident Cornel Wilde as Robert Hood (well, Robert of Huntingdon). He's called into the fray when his father (Russell Hicks) and the Merry Men, who are beginning to feel their age, renew the fight against tyranny after King John's death when Henry Daniell's evil Regent overthrows the Magna Carta and plans to kill the child king and steal his throne.
There's not much that's unexpected and despite the truly glorious Technicolor (courtesy of Tony Gaudio, who shot Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood with Sol Polito a decade earlier) and two directors (Henry Levin and George Sherman) it's hardly an A-list production, but it does it enjoyably enough en route to its final duel between Wilde and Daniell, who, caddish to the last, tries to starve the outlaw for three days before their Trial by Combat to give himself an edge. Neither Wilde nor his very 40s leading lady Anita Louise exactly dominate the screen (dialogue like "What's a pretty girl like you doing all alone in Sherwood Forest?" "I'm the scullery maid" doesn't help) while George Macready is wasted in a bit part as Daniell's sidekick, but it's good looking undemanding Saturday matinee stuff that's rather better produced than the material probably deserves.
The only extra is a trailer for Hammer's Sword of Sherwood Forest.
There's not much that's unexpected and despite the truly glorious Technicolor (courtesy of Tony Gaudio, who shot Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood with Sol Polito a decade earlier) and two directors (Henry Levin and George Sherman) it's hardly an A-list production, but it does it enjoyably enough en route to its final duel between Wilde and Daniell, who, caddish to the last, tries to starve the outlaw for three days before their Trial by Combat to give himself an edge. Neither Wilde nor his very 40s leading lady Anita Louise exactly dominate the screen (dialogue like "What's a pretty girl like you doing all alone in Sherwood Forest?" "I'm the scullery maid" doesn't help) while George Macready is wasted in a bit part as Daniell's sidekick, but it's good looking undemanding Saturday matinee stuff that's rather better produced than the material probably deserves.
The only extra is a trailer for Hammer's Sword of Sherwood Forest.
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THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest was the first film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the 2nd being The Rogues of Sherwood Forest - 1950), and of the two was by far the stronger film although neither had the class or verve of the original film. The script was written by Paul A Castleton and based on his novel `The Son of Robin Hood', and starred Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, the son of Robin Hood, Jill Esmond as the Queen Mother and Anita Louise as the hero's love interest. Errol Flynn was originally chosen to play the aging Robin Hood, but was considered to important a star to play only a supporting role.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest sees Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon re-raising his old comrades including Little John, Tuck and Will Scarlet, to oppose the villainous Regent who is attempting to steal the crown of England from the young boy king Henry III with the help of traitor nobles and the Sheriff of Nottingham. To lead the band of rather elderly Merrie Men, Robin sends for his son, Robert of Nottingham.
The film is fast paced, with plenty of action from Cornel Wilde, the directors making good use of his fencing skills and those of his arch enemy the British actor Henry Daniell to stage a dramatic finale fight scene. Wilde was a skilled swordsman who had been selected for the US 1936 Olympic Fencing Team, but stepped down, officially to pursue his acting career; although he later admitted that as a Jew he felt morally opposed to the Nazi attitude to non-Aryan Olympic participants. The strong supporting cast make the best of a dialogue script which does not measure up to the book but overall the film is still fun and typical of the genre of the time.
As with many similar movies, scenic clips and long distance chase scenes make use of earlier footage, some actually from the original Flynn film. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest was the first film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the 2nd being The Rogues of Sherwood Forest - 1950), and of the two was by far the stronger film although neither had the class or verve of the original film. The script was written by Paul A Castleton and based on his novel `The Son of Robin Hood', and starred Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, the son of Robin Hood, Jill Esmond as the Queen Mother and Anita Louise as the hero's love interest. Errol Flynn was originally chosen to play the aging Robin Hood, but was considered to important a star to play only a supporting role.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest sees Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon re-raising his old comrades including Little John, Tuck and Will Scarlet, to oppose the villainous Regent who is attempting to steal the crown of England from the young boy king Henry III with the help of traitor nobles and the Sheriff of Nottingham. To lead the band of rather elderly Merrie Men, Robin sends for his son, Robert of Nottingham.
The film is fast paced, with plenty of action from Cornel Wilde, the directors making good use of his fencing skills and those of his arch enemy the British actor Henry Daniell to stage a dramatic finale fight scene. Wilde was a skilled swordsman who had been selected for the US 1936 Olympic Fencing Team, but stepped down, officially to pursue his acting career; although he later admitted that as a Jew he felt morally opposed to the Nazi attitude to non-Aryan Olympic participants. The strong supporting cast make the best of a dialogue script which does not measure up to the book but overall the film is still fun and typical of the genre of the time.
As with many similar movies, scenic clips and long distance chase scenes make use of earlier footage, some actually from the original Flynn film. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
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THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest was the first film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the 2nd being The Rogues of Sherwood Forest - 1950), and of the two was by far the stronger film although neither had the class or verve of the original film. The script was written by Paul A Castleton and based on his novel `The Son of Robin Hood', and starred Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, the son of Robin Hood, Jill Esmond as the Queen Mother and Anita Louise as the hero's love interest. Errol Flynn was originally chosen to play the aging Robin Hood, but was considered to important a star to play only a supporting role.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest sees Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon re-raising his old comrades including Little John, Tuck and Will Scarlet, to oppose the villainous Regent who is attempting to steal the crown of England from the young boy king Henry III with the help of traitor nobles and the Sheriff of Nottingham. To lead the band of rather elderly Merrie Men, Robin sends for his son, Robert of Nottingham.
The film is fast paced, with plenty of action from Cornel Wilde, the directors making good use of his fencing skills and those of his arch enemy the British actor Henry Daniell to stage a dramatic finale fight scene. Wilde was a skilled swordsman who had been selected for the US 1936 Olympic Fencing Team, but stepped down, officially to pursue his acting career; although he later admitted that as a Jew he felt morally opposed to the Nazi attitude to non-Aryan Olympic participants. The strong supporting cast make the best of a dialogue script which does not measure up to the book but overall the film is still fun and typical of the genre of the time.
As with many similar movies, scenic clips and long distance chase scenes make use of earlier footage, some actually from the original Flynn film. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest was the first film Columbia produced as a sequel to Errol Flynn's classic 1938 movie `The Adventures of Robin Hood', (the 2nd being The Rogues of Sherwood Forest - 1950), and of the two was by far the stronger film although neither had the class or verve of the original film. The script was written by Paul A Castleton and based on his novel `The Son of Robin Hood', and starred Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, the son of Robin Hood, Jill Esmond as the Queen Mother and Anita Louise as the hero's love interest. Errol Flynn was originally chosen to play the aging Robin Hood, but was considered to important a star to play only a supporting role.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest sees Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon re-raising his old comrades including Little John, Tuck and Will Scarlet, to oppose the villainous Regent who is attempting to steal the crown of England from the young boy king Henry III with the help of traitor nobles and the Sheriff of Nottingham. To lead the band of rather elderly Merrie Men, Robin sends for his son, Robert of Nottingham.
The film is fast paced, with plenty of action from Cornel Wilde, the directors making good use of his fencing skills and those of his arch enemy the British actor Henry Daniell to stage a dramatic finale fight scene. Wilde was a skilled swordsman who had been selected for the US 1936 Olympic Fencing Team, but stepped down, officially to pursue his acting career; although he later admitted that as a Jew he felt morally opposed to the Nazi attitude to non-Aryan Olympic participants. The strong supporting cast make the best of a dialogue script which does not measure up to the book but overall the film is still fun and typical of the genre of the time.
As with many similar movies, scenic clips and long distance chase scenes make use of earlier footage, some actually from the original Flynn film. I do not even look for historical accuracy in Hollywood costumers, they are great fun and pure entertainment; what more can you ask?
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