Robin Hood
About Robin Hood
The Earl of Huntingdon beats Sir Guy of Gisbourne in a joust and leaves on crusade with King Richard, who has left Prince John as regent. John, pushed by Sir Guy, takes the throne, and Lady Marian Fitzwalter's message brings Huntingdon home against Richard's order. Sir Guy has him seized as a deserter. He escapes, finds his friends outlawed and Marian reported dead, and as Robin Hood, with Friar Tuck, Little John, Will Scarlet, and Allan-a-Dale, he frees Marian and fights Sir Guy. Richard returns, John is stopped, and Robin is given back to Marian.
Cast & crew
More about Robin Hood
Allan Dwan directed. Douglas Fairbanks produced and played the Earl of Huntingdon. The copyrighted title is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood. The script is credited to Elton Thomas, Fairbanks's pseudonym, with Kenneth Davenport, Edward Knoblock, Dwan, and Lotta Woods. United Artists released it. The Hollywood premiere was at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922, described as the first Hollywood premiere. A castle and a 12th-century Nottingham village were built at the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio. The castle was wood, wire, and plaster, with a concrete floor and a steel drawbridge covered in wood. The Wikipedia box-office figure is $2,500,000 for the United States and Canada.
Themes
Look
Arthur Edeson and Charles Richardson shot the joust, the Crusade departure, and the castle built on the Pickford-Fairbanks lot.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles. Victor Schertzinger wrote the score.
Notes
- Enid Bennett plays Lady Marian Fitzwalter. Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, and Alan Hale are in the cast.
- The picture is 11 reels, 10,680 feet.
- Arthur Edeson and Charles Richardson photographed it. William Nolan edited it.
Scenes
- Huntingdon unhorses Sir Guy in the joust, then leaves with Richard.
- He escapes the deserter's cell and comes back to England as Robin Hood.
- Richard returns as Robin is taken, and Prince John loses.
Also available
- Internet Archive (FairbanksRobinHood1922)
- Wikimedia Commons (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922).webm)
