{"id":18728,"date":"2019-01-06T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18728"},"modified":"2019-01-08T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:22:08","slug":"the-bandit-the-rogues-the-men-and-the-sword-of-sherwood-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18728","title":{"rendered":"The Bandit, the Rogues, the Men, and the Sword of Sherwood Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s decision to license rather than release on disc the ever-growing bulk of its back catalogue has been a boon to indie labels, enabling single titles, themed sets &amp; prior OOP collections to premiere or re-emerge in new HD transfers via labels such as Britain\u2019s Indicator (note their recent Hammer, William Castle, Ray Harryhausen, and Icons of Suspense sets) and Twilight Time, whose latest Blu-ray is one of three titles previously issued on DVD as part of Columbia\u2019s Sherwood Forest series.<\/p>\n<p>The three films &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18720\"><strong>The Bandit of Sherwood Forest<\/strong><\/a> (1946), <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18722\"><strong>Rogues of Sherwood Forest<\/strong><\/a> (1950), and <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18726\"><strong>Sword of Sherwood Forest<\/strong><\/a> (1960) \u2013 should\u2019ve debuted in a boxed set, but in 2010 Sony felt standalone bare bones editions were enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18757\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BanditOfSherwoodForest_poster_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BanditOfSherwoodForest_poster_m.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BanditOfSherwoodForest_poster_m-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18758\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RogiesOfSherwoodForest_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RogiesOfSherwoodForest_poster.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RogiesOfSherwoodForest_poster-151x300.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18756\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SwordOfSherwoodForest_psoter_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SwordOfSherwoodForest_psoter_m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SwordOfSherwoodForest_psoter_m-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first film starred Cornel Wilde as Robin Hood\u2019s son Robert; the second featured John Derek as the late outlaw\u2019s rebranded son; and the third had Richard Greene transferring his older Robin from the hit ITV series <strong>The Adventures of Robin Hood <\/strong>(1955-1960) to a widescreen colour production by Hammer Films.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18759\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MenOfSherwoodForest_poster-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MenOfSherwoodForest_poster-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MenOfSherwoodForest_poster-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lesser-known and nestled between <strong>Rogues<\/strong> and <strong>Sword<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=18724\"><strong>Men of Sherwood Forest <\/strong><\/a>(1954), with future genre director Don Taylor playing an older Robin in Hammer\u2019s first RH production, under their Exclusive Films shingle.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <strong>Men<\/strong> was an attempt to bring a more mature Robin to the big screen before ITV reworked the concept for TV in 1955; regardless, Hammer\u2019s first poke at Robin Hood remains a bit of an orphan film, originally released theatrically by defunct Astor Pictures in the U.S., and unavailable on DVD except (where else?) in Spain, as a dual English-Spanish language edition.\u00a0I\u2019ve tracked down the three titles and use them to support Twilight Time&#8217;s new Blu-ray of <strong>Sword<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: reviews of Michael Moore\u2019s <strong>Fahrenheit 11\/9<\/strong> (2018), and Bruce Beresford\u2019s <strong>Flint<\/strong> (2017), both chronicling the Flint Water Crisis in Michigan using very different approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of the Sherwood Forest series: Bandit of SH (1946), Rogues of SH (1950), Men of SH (1954), and Sword of SH (1960) on Blu from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5914,5921,354,5930,2562,2563,5906,5929,5912,5905],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SwordOfSherwoodForest_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-4S4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18764,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18728\/revisions\/18764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}