Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Sarah Branch, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Nigel Green, Jack Gwillim, Oliver Reed, Vanda Godsell, Edwin Richfield, Charles Lamb, Derren Nesbitt.
Unusual Robin Hood story from Hammer Film Productions, where the famed outlaw (Greene, familiar with the role after playing him in the TV series, "The Adventures of Robin Hood") is barely the main character, Maid Marian (Branch) is a blonde, our hero spends as much time feathering targets as he does villains, and the plot gets bogged down in the middle with a dialogue-heavy land dispute involving a pardoned dead outlaw. Okay outing for the evergreen anti-hero is light on action until the home stretch, with rather stiff swordplay and unconvincing arrow-fire, but the production is handsomely mounted with bright Technicolor scenery and good turns from a few of the supporting players. MacGinnis provides warm, benign comic relief as Friar Tuck; Cushing brings a smooth elegance to his interpretation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The lord wounded at the beginning (setting the plot in motion) is none other than Desmond Llewellyn, aka the original Q from the James Bond pictures.
58/100
Unusual Robin Hood story from Hammer Film Productions, where the famed outlaw (Greene, familiar with the role after playing him in the TV series, "The Adventures of Robin Hood") is barely the main character, Maid Marian (Branch) is a blonde, our hero spends as much time feathering targets as he does villains, and the plot gets bogged down in the middle with a dialogue-heavy land dispute involving a pardoned dead outlaw. Okay outing for the evergreen anti-hero is light on action until the home stretch, with rather stiff swordplay and unconvincing arrow-fire, but the production is handsomely mounted with bright Technicolor scenery and good turns from a few of the supporting players. MacGinnis provides warm, benign comic relief as Friar Tuck; Cushing brings a smooth elegance to his interpretation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The lord wounded at the beginning (setting the plot in motion) is none other than Desmond Llewellyn, aka the original Q from the James Bond pictures.
58/100