![]() It is not for nothing thatĪt Scathlock's death Robin breaks the outlaw chief's sword and places His redistributivist, compassionate message. Succeed Will Scathlock as leader of the Sherwood outlaws on grounds of intelligence and the inspiration of ![]() On robbing the moneylender Herbert of Doncaster, Robin and his aide of the first two episodes, Alfie Bass as Edgar, carefully go through Herbert's accounts to return excessive interest payments to poor villagers. Outlaws in Sherwood and claims no automatic authority. He abandons his aristocratic identity when among the Preferential treatment, which must have elicited nods of identificationįrom many viewers. ![]() In line by a jobsworth clerk who thinks returning soldiers expect Jump the queue and see the Sheriff, after first having been told to wait Robin is egalitarian: he wants to wait his turn when told he can Who have surrendered their humanity to becomeĪutomata in the service of the Norman lords, or adopted their Presumably they can be discounted as collaborators, The centre of villainy is the Sheriff of Nottingham, played with calculated coldness by Alan Wheatley, but more often than not Robin and his outlaw band fight his faceless, helmeted soldiers. Only when they attack, or die when their own plans turn against them. This knight back from the dead is sick of killing, but finds himself inĪn England where he is told by an ailing old retainer that the law hasīeen reduced to the rule kill or be killed. Found sick by a pilgrim at the gates of Jerusalem, and nursedīack to health before returning to Nottinghamshire to claim his estate, Somewhat heavy-set by the standards of Flynn, Praed, Connery (J.) orĪrmstrong, but this physical solidity is used to underscore his moral Membership of the Communist Party before the House (of Representatives) Un-American One of the ‘Hollywood Ten’ sacked from their studio positions in 1947įollowing their refusal to confirm or deny their present or sometime Written or co-written by Eric Heath, a pseudonym for Ring Lardner Jr., I’d not seen very much of The Adventures of Robin Hood itself,īar catching the odd episode on satellite channel Bravo in its ITC backĬatalogue phase, but watched the first four episodes last night. Patently Sapphire Films‘s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1960). Working in 1950s Britain on a film adventure series for television, At times langorously reflective but at others nailbitingly pensive, it starred Ron Silver as Asa Kaufmann, a blacklisted Hollywood writer A few years ago I watched the Michael Eaton BBC/HBO telefilm Fellow Traveller.
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