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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men was filmed in 3-strip Technicolor. [12] Annakin said he was unhappy with the casting of Joan Rice as Maid Marian, feeling she could not act, but says Disney insisted she play the role. [13] Richard Todd was short and often had to walk on a plank or stand on an apple box next to Rice. [14]
Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish-British actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart.
S. J. Bingham in the silent Robin Hood, Jr. (1923) Henry Wilcoxon in Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades (1935) Ian Hunter in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), with Errol Flynn as Robin; Patrick Barr in The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), with Richard Todd as Robin and in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–59) with Richard ...
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
1922: Robin Hood, a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks. 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, his most acclaimed role, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck, Alan Hale, Sr. as Little John, Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisborne, Claude Rains as Prince John, Patric Knowles as Will Scarlet, Melville Cooper as the Sheriff of ...
He followed it up with two more costume adventure tales, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and The Sword and the Rose, both directed by Ken Annakin and starring Richard Todd. In September 1952, Disney announced that Todd would star in a film about Rob Roy immediately after Sword and the Rose and that the film would have a budget of ...
Annakin then received an offer from Walt Disney to make The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) with Richard Todd. He made an action film set during the Malayan Emergency, the United Artists film The Planter's Wife (1952) with Jack Hawkins and Claudette Colbert, which was a big hit in Britain.
Hubert Gregg in The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), with Richard Todd as Robin; Guy Rolfe in Ivanhoe (1952), with Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe; Nigel Terry in the film adaptation of The Lion in Winter (1968) Lawrence Adams in the soft porn film The Ribald Tales of Robin Hood (1969) Frank Braña in the Italian film Il Magnifico Robin ...