Das Schwert des Robin Hood (1960)

Das Schwert des Robin Hood: Directed by Terence Fisher. With Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco. While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan.

“This is not as bad as all that. Terence Fisher as ever does a competent job, there are reasonable production values and some rather fetching photography. I always thought Richard Greene a little too schoolmasterly for an outlaw, and he is here rather portly, but he can certainly handle a bow. Nigel Greene and Niall McGinnis are well cast as Little John and Tuck, Peter Cushing is an excellent Sheriff, and Richard Pasco does well as the ambiguous Lord Newark. Oliver Reedu0026#39;s camp henchman is perhaps less successful.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe conspiracy plot unfolds at a relaxed pace and resolves satisfyingly. The weakest element is the tacked on romance with Sarah Branchu0026#39;s rather bland Maid Marion.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll in all a rather charming period piece, that gets closer to the spirit of the original ballads than most versions.”