Country: United States
Language:
English
Director: Allan
Dwan
Writer: Douglas
Fairbanks (story)
Stars: Wallace
Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks
Release Date: 18
October 1922 (USA)
Also known as:
Robin Hood (Austria / Denmark / Germany / Hungary); Douglas Fairbanks in Robin
Hood (USA - complete title); Roben ton dason (Greece - transliterated
ISO-LATIN-1 title); Robin de los bosques (Spain);
Robin des Bois (France); Robin dos Bosques (Portugal)
Filming
Locations: Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los
Angeles, California, USA; California, USA; Glendale, California, USA; Griffith
Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA; Lake Sherwood,
California, USA; Sherwood Forest, California, USA; The Lot - 1041 N. Formosa
Avenue, West Hollywood, California, USA; United Artists Studios - 7200 Santa
Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Budget:
$1.500.000 (estimated)
Runtime: 143 min
| 117 min (video) | 120 min (AMC print) (1997) | 143 min (Raymond Rohauer
print) (2012)
Sound Mix:
Silent
Color: Black and
White
Plot Keywords: Tyrant | England | Robin Hood | Crusades | Pigeon | Disguise | Silhouette | Nobility | Falcon | Archery | Convent | Sword Fight | Treason | King Richard I | Good Versus Evil | Jester | Joust | Murder | 1190s | 12th Century | Wedding Night | Mistaken Identity | King John | Forest | Kidnapping | Castle | Carrier Pigeon | Knight | Escape | Banishment | Swashbuckler | Quarterstaff | Dungeon | Character Name In Title
Genres: Adventure | Romance | Family
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, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Plot Keywords: Tyrant | England | Robin Hood | Crusades | Pigeon | Disguise | Silhouette | Nobility | Falcon | Archery | Convent | Sword Fight | Treason | King Richard I | Good Versus Evil | Jester | Joust | Murder | 1190s | 12th Century | Wedding Night | Mistaken Identity | King John | Forest | Kidnapping | Castle | Carrier Pigeon | Knight | Escape | Banishment | Swashbuckler | Quarterstaff | Dungeon | Character Name In Title
Genres: Adventure | Romance | Family
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, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Trivia
This film was
long thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the 1960s.
The official
title of this movie is "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood."
The castle is
reputed to be the largest Hollywood set built for any silent movie. Lloyd
Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's son, designed at least one set which he later
remodeled as a temporary band shell for the Hollywood Bowl.
The most
expensive movie at its time. It cost $1.4 million.
The opening
quote, "So fleet the works of men/ Back to their earth again/ Ancient and
holy things/ Fade like a dream', is from 'Old and New: A Parable' by Charles
Kingsley (1848).
This movie has
the distinction of being the first to have a gala premiere. Theater owner Sid
Grauman conceived the idea. The premiere was held at Grauman's brand-new
Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
The Los Angeles
Angels were used as extras to play Robin Hood's Merry Men in the film.
Connections
Followed by
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
