Robin Hood( 1922)

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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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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
Frank Austin
Friar
Roy Coulson
King's Jester
Charles Stevens
Prince John's Aide

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 06 2022

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-like Sam de Grasse). He feigns an excuse to the King to return home without explaining why, but falls foul of one of John's spies and is left, injured and betrayed, to rot in a foreign tower. Luckily, ...