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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueRobin Hood, his sidekick Will Scarlet and the rest of the forest rogues try to retrieve another male's captured female from the castle of the evil Prince John as the two sides try to annihil... Tout lireRobin Hood, his sidekick Will Scarlet and the rest of the forest rogues try to retrieve another male's captured female from the castle of the evil Prince John as the two sides try to annihilate each other.Robin Hood, his sidekick Will Scarlet and the rest of the forest rogues try to retrieve another male's captured female from the castle of the evil Prince John as the two sides try to annihilate each other.
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In 1938, Warner Brothers made the most perfect version of the Robin Hood stories, "The Adventures of Robin Hood". It was an amazing picture...one of the best and most iconic of the 1930s. It also was a GORGEOUS spectacle made in full Technicolor when very few films took on the added expense of this color process. In light of how perfect the film is, it's actually VERY surprising that Columbia would make such a second-rate version of Robin Hood. It lacks the wonderful cast of the Errol Flynn version and just looks cheap...especially since they made it using Cinecolor. Why do I complain about Cinecolor? Because unlike the Technicolor of the day which used three colors to produce the full spectrum of colors, Cinecolor used two colors...an orange-red and a bluish-green. As a result, many colors simply are off and you don't get colors such as yellow, purple or green. Not having green in a Robin Hood film is a HUGE mistake!!
The story begins with some jerk trying to kill Maid Marion and her brother. Of course, Robin (Jon Hall) appears from almost no where the stops the guy with an arrow to his wrist! Ouch! Later, Robin learns that a woman is being forced to marry one of King John's kin and Robin and his men set out to rescue her. Of course this means bows and arrows, sword play and adventure.
So is this any good? It's not bad and it's a shame they just didn't re-write the script to make the characters unique and NOT Robin Hood et al. You just cannot compare the handsome but dull Jon Hall to Errol Flynn...and the same can be said of most of his merry men. As a result, it's watchable and not a bad film...but it's not a particularly great one either.
The story begins with some jerk trying to kill Maid Marion and her brother. Of course, Robin (Jon Hall) appears from almost no where the stops the guy with an arrow to his wrist! Ouch! Later, Robin learns that a woman is being forced to marry one of King John's kin and Robin and his men set out to rescue her. Of course this means bows and arrows, sword play and adventure.
So is this any good? It's not bad and it's a shame they just didn't re-write the script to make the characters unique and NOT Robin Hood et al. You just cannot compare the handsome but dull Jon Hall to Errol Flynn...and the same can be said of most of his merry men. As a result, it's watchable and not a bad film...but it's not a particularly great one either.
I can't say it compares to the Errol Flynn classic, but I will say it's entertaining enough and packs quite a bit into just a little over an hour. There's enough action, adventure, rescues, and intrigue to hold your attention, not to mention romance (which includes a triple wedding ceremony). The secondary love story is even better than the Robin/Marian one, and the third couple were good for some comic moments.
The movie doesn't take itself too seriously, the atmosphere is light, and you get the impression everyone had fun while making this film.
It's also inspired me to check out some more movies like this.
The movie doesn't take itself too seriously, the atmosphere is light, and you get the impression everyone had fun while making this film.
It's also inspired me to check out some more movies like this.
Jon Hall acquits himself fine in this standard "Robin Hood" story. This time he and his gang of foresters and rebels have to try and thwart the devious aspirations of the Baron "Gilbert" (H. B. Warner) and his sidekick "Sir Philip" (Lowell Gilmore) before the love of his life "Lady Marian" (Patricia Morison) is married off. It's colourful and quickly paced with plenty of swordplay (possibly not the most convincing, but still...) and Alan Mowbray also contributes well as the sagely and substantial "Friar Tuck". The ending is a bit daft (just how useless can loads of soldiers be against three men?) and you''ll probably not remember this for long afterwards, but it passes an hour or so amiably enough and I did quite enjoy it.
I initially am wondering what is eomhitng new the R.B. movies can show and find this to have satisfying action, funny parts, and a different focus on areas (more castle scenes which actually makes cents at the title, his is ironically the prince of the evil castle), and an increase on R.H.'s assistants that need more focus like Will Scarlet, and less on ones that are known plenty like from other R.H. movies, and R.h> himself is very manageably played, just there not to eclipse the plot, but remains with that same action focus and also light wit he has, treated iconographically, but still the main hero, like a piece of the puzzle as "the main hero" while there are also "second heroes" yet still the main and giving just enough action and lightness. The movie is not about oh wow it is this legend, but more about getting the plot and action sequences first that the characters happen to be in which makes them notable characters themselves, refreshing. In the beginning it is kinda like where is the interest, it is another R.H. movie is the thought but how it is in the castle setting and plot begins it is like ah now this is something interesting. There are extensive castle scenes for this to provide something more than the first setting and functions well along with the rustic part sas they also provide notable stuff, some of the forsest parts show a good camp style that seems like California camp I was in and there is something else interesting such as the Roman column even which is goic in the middle of the forest, reminiscent of some R.H. tales having such columns in the setting. Also funny parts, people thrown into a moat, a place for poop and pee in castles not only for defensive purpose, and R.H. and assistant wading through, this is actually just me amused also the characters falling in there, also eating meet and throwing bone away, some one toward the end not even wearing leggings, and also an assistant battling alongside R.H. and after he is done just strolls off the scene while R.H. is continuing, some of the confusion of the numerous gals here that is the blonde the focus but then shifts to the dark haired female later?
Very refreshing that this does not feature overdone scenes from other R.H. movies like the Little John bridge or archery contest but truly awesome other scenes, like the castle stuff, even the villains are not lavished upon so much but actually doing things to warrante their villain stature. I just reminisce the main guy, the bad king to the good king who is not even in here as it is unecessary enjoy your crusade instead king. It is as it eh move is as refreshing as being in the cool wood itself.
Very refreshing that this does not feature overdone scenes from other R.H. movies like the Little John bridge or archery contest but truly awesome other scenes, like the castle stuff, even the villains are not lavished upon so much but actually doing things to warrante their villain stature. I just reminisce the main guy, the bad king to the good king who is not even in here as it is unecessary enjoy your crusade instead king. It is as it eh move is as refreshing as being in the cool wood itself.
I was much amazed and surprised to watch this Sam Katzman production, directed by the swallow Howard Bretherton, an obscure grade Z film maker, I don't even speak of his two awful and boring serials: WHO'S GUILTY and MONSTER AND THE APE, the most unbearable serial ever made, also produced by Sam Katzman and millions miles away from William Witney's ones. This colorful Robin Hood adventures is much more than I expected, far better than most moviegoers could be scared of, knowing the bad reputation of Sam Katzman for this kind of stuff. Good cheap action scenes, full of battles, fights of any kind. What could we ask for?
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- GaffesWhen Robin is being hanged, the rope is longer than the drop; meaning he would have hit the ground before the rope pulled taut even if Little John had not cut it.
- Crédits fousAlthough the film's title card reads "Alexandre Dumas' The Prince of Thieves," it bears no relation to any work written by Dumas pere of fils.
- ConnexionsReferenced in Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
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- The Prince of Thieves
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- Budget
- 400 000 $US (estimé)
- Durée
- 1h 12min(72 min)
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1
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