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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Robin Hood
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List Price: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Reel Enterprises
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; Enid Bennett; Wallace Beery; Sam de Grasse; Paul Dickey; William Lowery; Alan Hale Sr.
Directed By: Allan Dwan
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Binding: DVD
Format: Black & White
Label: Reel Enterprises
Manufacturer: Reel Enterprises
Publisher: Reel Enterprises
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2006-11-13
Running Time: 118
Studio: Reel Enterprises
Theatrical Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: No t bad at all
Comment: Silent films need a mindset, but this however goes down easily. It is good to see Wallace Beery, Fairbanks Sr, and Alan Hale,all younger than we usually them. The leading lady however, is not up to curren standards.
Still the movie holds up well, and belongs in the collection of fans of this genre.
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Summary: Scott Joplin alive during reign of Richard the Lionheart?
Comment: I don't ever write reviews but I had to comment on this. First this is a wonderful film. Secondly the print is quite good as well - although having none of the original tints. So I would give the film itself an overall ****. But this has to be the most inappropriate soundtrack ever issued. It consists of a lone pianist playing a group of a half dozen or so well-known Scott Joplin ragtime numbers repeated over and over for two full hours. It's enough to drive you nuts! At the great climax when Robin's merry band storms the castle, we are treated to a slow version of Joplin's "The Entertainer." You remember: the theme of "The Sting!" Who knew Scott Joplin lived during the reign of William the Lionheart and Robin of Locksely? Buy it for the film but then either view it without sound or add your own track of Fats Domino or the Stones or even, maybe, the Village People. Anything would be better than the musical disaster that accompanies this print. Incidently this is a DVDR not a commercially produced DVD but that doesn't adversely affect the print quality.
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Summary: Robin Hood a hoot!
Comment: Slow moving though it may be in the first half, Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood really picks up in the second, when our hero returns to England and becomes the outlaw hero of song and legend. Once he affects his transformation, Fairbanks goes hopping, skipping and leaping through the rest of the picture - I don't think he ever walks in the usual way - and his Merry Men follow suit! This movie hasn't lost any of its pure fun and excitement in the 85 + years since it premiered in 1922. As with many home video releases of silent pictures, I do wish the releasing company had taken care to provide a more appropriate music track. (When a big-budget silent movie such as this was originally released, the distributors often sent specially composed sheet music along with the rental. That's how important it was.) The picture quality is amazing after all these years. This Reel Enterprises edition compares very favorably with the Kino edition. It seems to have been based on the identical print.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils! A rousing, fast-moving silent movie that established the character as a devil-may-care adventurer with a passion for justice and the wistful Maid Marian -- in that order. Fairbanks wrote the screenplay and financed the then astronomical $1.5 million film.
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