Lorsque le roi Richard Cœur de Lion quitte l'Angleterre pour mener une croisade en Terre sainte, le Prince John, son frère perfide, complote pour s'emparer du trône.Lorsque le roi Richard Cœur de Lion quitte l'Angleterre pour mener une croisade en Terre sainte, le Prince John, son frère perfide, complote pour s'emparer du trône.Lorsque le roi Richard Cœur de Lion quitte l'Angleterre pour mener une croisade en Terre sainte, le Prince John, son frère perfide, complote pour s'emparer du trône.
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesUnusual for many of the Robin Hood movies, some scenes were actually filmed in the real Sherwood Forest.
- GaffesIn one scene Maid Marian is wearing a dress with a zipper in the back. Zippers would not be invented for another seven centuries.
- Citations
Maid Marian: [dressed as a page boy being held back by Little John] Let me go, you monster! Let me go!
Robin Hood: Hey, John. Give me that lad.
Maid Marian: [Marian is tossed to Robin] Let me down, you... you white faced...
Robin Hood: Well, you're a pretty lad and sweetly tempered. Like a lady I used to know.
Maid Marian: And I used to know a gentleman called Robin Fitzooth who would scorn to be a common thief.
- ConnexionsEdited into Disneyland: The Story of Robin Hood: Part 1 (1955)
It steers a skillful and essential line between tendentious over-seriousness and pie-in-the-face humour, and contrives a fresh view on the familiar set-pieces -- the shivered arrow on the bull's-eye, Friar Tuck and the river crossing, the recruitment of Little John -- with, unusually, a sizable part for the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine as the mother of the King and Prince John. In the title role, Richard Todd makes a charming curly-headed rogue, whose merry eyes betray his identity beneath the most enveloping of disguises, and he brings the necessary charisma and impudence to the character: this is the recognisable Robin Hood of legend, whom men follow for freedom and for the fun of it. A little easy-going, perhaps, with little of the passion against injustice that flashes beneath the laughter of Errol Flynn, but this is Disney after all.
Joan Rice is a spitfire wilful Marian, whose involvement is plausibly scripted without any anachronism; she also provides a couple of the best moments in the film, whether belabouring Robin on her fellow-travellers' behalf or silencing him with an athletic embrace at the end. James Hayter as Friar Tuck and Peter Finch as the black-avised Sheriff of Nottingham also give memorable performances -- and could that really have been avuncular Hubert Gregg, of all people, convincing us as Prince John?
My main source of irritation about this film lay in some of the archery embellishments. Every arrow-shot we see zips past with the whine of a ricocheted bullet, presumably in order to make the fights sound more exciting in the absence of gunfire, and the system of signalling by firing colour-coded arrows in relays at one another seemed not only out of place but highly risky (credibility not helped by what I surely didn't imagine as people turning round to look as they hear the arrow coming!) The distinctly unpleasant fate of the forsworn Sheriff, on the other hand, was glossed over in suspicious silence, without so much as a cry.
But caveats aside, the film scores well on sheer energy, with a healthy dash of humour. The 1967 "A Challenge for Robin Hood" (despite featuring Hayter as Friar Tuck again!) is an over-bright and sanitised Ladybird rendition; the 1990 "Robin Hood" (the non-Costner version) went the other way and overdid the historical grime. The latter is the better film, but neither of them has the enjoyability and spirit of the 1952 offering. This isn't on the same scale as the Curtiz/Keighley classic of 1938, and Todd remains an engaging boy rather than a rollicking leader of men, but it perhaps comes closest to matching the verve of its illustrious predecessor.
- Igenlode Wordsmith
- 8 oct. 2005
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- The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
- Lieux de tournage
- Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(second unit location shooting)
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 4 578 000 $ US
- Durée1 heure 24 minutes
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1