Robin Hood

1922 2h 13m EN

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★6.4TMDB · 61

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Synopsis

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Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Douglas Fairbanks
Robin Hood
Enid Bennett
Lady Marian Fitzwalter
Wallace Beery
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Sam De Grasse
Prince John
Alan Hale
Little John
Bud Geary
Will Scarlett
Willard Louis
Friar Tuck
Lloyd Talman
Allan-a-Dale

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Allan Dwan
Writers: Douglas Fairbanks, Kenneth Davenport, Allan Dwan
Languages: No Language
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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104 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Robin Hood Collection (Silent)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Allan Dwan, shot by Arthur Edeson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Victor Schertzinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor William Nolan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Douglas Fairbanks and Enid Bennett and Wallace Beery carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0013556 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Allan Dwan directs. Arthur Edeson behind the camera. Victor Schertzinger scores. William Nolan cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in No Language.

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1104 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Robin Hood Collection (Silent)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Allan Dwan, shot by Arthur Edeson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Victor Schertzinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor William Nolan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Douglas Fairbanks and Enid Bennett and Wallace Beery carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0013556 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 61 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Arthur Edeson
Original score: Victor Schertzinger
Editing: William Nolan
Costume design: Mitchell Leisen
Makeup / hair: George Westmore
Runtime: 133 min · 2h 13m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Robin Hood (1922)

Part of

Robin Hood Collection (Silent)

Two films based on the popular medieval tales of Robin Hood and Richard the Lion-Hearted.

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Allan Dwan

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CinemaSerf2022-06-06
★ 7/10
This is probably the most complete of the cinematic tales of this hero of 13th Century English folklore. Douglas Fairbanks assumes the role of the fabled Earl of Huntingdon before King Richard (Wallace Beery) heads off on the Third Crusade. It is only whilst on that holy mission that he discovers the brutality being carried out at home by the King's errant brother Prince John (the superbly ferret-like Sam de Grasse). He feigns an excuse to the King to return home without explaining why, but falls foul of one of John's spies and is left, injured and betrayed, to rot in a foreign tower. Luckily, "Little John" (Alan Hale) is also left and soon they are free, home and rallying the people against their would-be-usurper and his fiendishly horrid sidekicks "Guy of Gisbourne" (Paul Dickey) and the High Sheriff (William Lowery). The former of these two glorified hoodlums takes a shine to the "Lady Marion" (Enid Bennett) but can Huntingdon - now adopting the moniker "Robin Hood" save her from his evil machinations, and thwart the power hungry ambitions of Prince John in time? The biggest budget of the time ($1.5m) went into this and it is easy to see how - the sets, especially around Nottingham castle, are superb; the cast plentiful and the end to end action scenes really are a joy to watch. Fairbanks thinks nothing of scaling an hundred foot wall or fighting off dozens of the Prince's (admittedly pretty hopeless) soldiers as he determines to free his land from oppression and return it to true government. Bennett is beautiful as "Marion"; she has a feistiness that you don't always see in the frequently soporific heroines of the 1920s where the eyes were the prize. The star is at the top of his swashbuckling game, indulged totally by Allan Dwan and Arthur Edeson's grand scale - sometimes intimate - but certainly rousing photography. Fabulous entertainment, this....

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