Robin Hood helps with sundry injustices and nefarious plots.
This is not the Robin Hood story, it is a story featuring Robin Hood. It is Hammer film starring Richard Greene, star of the long-running studiobound black and white 1950s British TV series. Greene is the only cast member who transfers to colour widescreen, but he gains some decent names in the supporting cast, Peter Cushing and Nigel Greene in particular.
The story is nicely textured and, after the resolutely studiobound TV series, it is good to see some lush and colourful exterior work which, unusually for a British film, is filmed in summer rather than winter. The accents of the extras make it obvious that, in this instance, Sherwood Forest is located in Ireland.
Action is quite well staged, albeit 1950s budget issues mean that all arrow strikes are already in place before the victims dramatically rotate to reveal them.
As a low-budget British action movie from the 50s, this isn't bad at all.
This is not the Robin Hood story, it is a story featuring Robin Hood. It is Hammer film starring Richard Greene, star of the long-running studiobound black and white 1950s British TV series. Greene is the only cast member who transfers to colour widescreen, but he gains some decent names in the supporting cast, Peter Cushing and Nigel Greene in particular.
The story is nicely textured and, after the resolutely studiobound TV series, it is good to see some lush and colourful exterior work which, unusually for a British film, is filmed in summer rather than winter. The accents of the extras make it obvious that, in this instance, Sherwood Forest is located in Ireland.
Action is quite well staged, albeit 1950s budget issues mean that all arrow strikes are already in place before the victims dramatically rotate to reveal them.
As a low-budget British action movie from the 50s, this isn't bad at all.