Literature/Film Quarterly, January 1st, 2008
Viewers unhappy about the liberties recent Robin Hood films from Robin and Marian (1976) to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) have taken with the familiar story might be heartened to know that as far back as 1922 Allan Dwan's Robin Hood, apparently produced without a screenplay, treated it just as freely. Fairbanks's Robert of Huntingdon-not Robin of Locksley, as he should have been called-began the story, as he confessed, "afeard of women." Although he conquered that fear soon enough with the help of Lady Marian Fitzwalter, he spent the entire first half of the film as King Richard's loyal...
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