Robin Hood

1922 133 min ★ 6.4 Adventure

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!

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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

Paul Dickey

Sir Guy of Gisbourne

William Lowery

The High Sheriff of Nottingham

Details

Director

Allan Dwan

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

June 6, 2022

★ 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-...