The Sheriff's name in the film is Baron Fitz Alvine, a variation of the name of Egan and Dumas's villain. The review proclaims 'by reason of its cromatic qualities the color filmed version of the story must supersede any rival black-and-white film covering the same subject.' The film featured Will Scarlet's wooing of Christabel, who was Alan a Dale's love interest in Pierce Egan's 19th century novel Robin Hood and Little John As mentioned in the previous section, the French translation / adaptation was credited to Alexandre Dumas, and it would go onto inspire other Robin Hood films and TV shows. The three-reel 1913 Robin Hood by Kinemacolor was in colour, with the review in Variety praising 'the royal purple robes of office, to say naught of the trend of the yeoman and their women folk toward vivacious color effects and the picturesque and dashing bottle green costumes of the vagrant band'. The same year saw the release of Robin Hood - Outlawed.Īnd not all the silent films were in black-and-white. This film has Sir Guy of Gisbourne as a rival for Marian's attentions, an element from the Reginald De Koven's comic opera that was worked into many film versions. While many of these are lost, the 1912 Robin Hood from Eclair still exists, lovingly restored in the 21st century. Hood films, and that's not counting his appearances as Locksley in adaptations of Ivanhoe. Hood first became a movie star in 1908 with two short films, an American one-reel short called Robin Hood (from the Kalem production companty) and a British short Robin Hood and His Merry Men (from the Claredon company). The Richard Greene comic book cover is © Sussex/Magazine Enterprises, 1955.

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Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan