![]() The Sheriff taxes Friar Tuck and a family of rabbits. This results in the prince putting a bounty on their heads and making the Sheriff his personal tax collector. Robin and Little John rob Prince John by disguising themselves as fortune tellers. Unfortunately, the prince is greedy and immature, even sucking his thumb whenever his mother is mentioned. Sir Hiss hypnotized Prince John's brother King Richard to go off on the Crusades, allowing Prince John to take the throne. Meanwhile, Prince John and his assistant Sir Hiss, arrive in Nottingham. The Sheriff of Nottingham and his posse often try to catch the two but fail every time. He explains that Robin Hood and Little John live in Sherwood Forest, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor townsfolk of Nottingham. The movie is narrated by the rooster Alan-a-Dale. The story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian. It is based on the legend of Robin Hood, but uses anthropomorphic animals instead of people. It was first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions. So, Robin did exist, but not in quite the same way as the Robin Hood we all think of, the cinematic Robin of Sherwood, Prince of Thieves! His story however, remains one of the best known tales of English folklore.Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical adventure comedy movie. Little John’s grave can be seen in Hathersage churchyard in Derbyshire.īut what of his lover Maid Marion? Not much of Robin’s career is known, but nowhere in the chronicles is Maid Marion mentioned, so we must assume she was ‘added’ to the stories at a later date. Robin asked Little John to bury him where the arrow landed, which he duly did.Ī mound in Kirklees Park, within bow-shot of the house, can still be seen and is said to be his last resting place. Little John placed Robin’s bow in his hand and carried him to a window from where Robin managed to loose one arrow. With the last of his strength he blew his horn and Little John came to his aid, but too late. As he grew older and became ill, he went with Little John to Kirklees Priory near Huddersfield, to be treated by his aunt, the Prioress, but a certain Sir Roger de Doncaster persuaded her to murder her nephew and the Prioress slowly bled Robin to death. Robin having fought in the Crusades alongside the Lionheart before returning to England to find his lands siezed by the Sheriff.Īll versions of the Robin Hood story give the same account of his death. Some chroniclers date his exploits as taking place during the reign of Edward II, but other versions say the king was Richard I, the Lionheart. Robin became a popular folk hero because of his generosity to the poor and down-trodden peasants, and his hatred of the Sheriff and his verderers who enforced the oppressive forest laws, made him their champion. Afterwards the fields where the arrows landed were known as Robin Hood’s Close and Little John’s Close. The arrows fell at Whitby Lathes, more than a mile away. Both men were skilled at archery and from the roof of the Monastery they both shot an arrow. One well known story about Robin that places him in Whitby, Yorkshire, is about him and Little John having a friendly archery contest. One certain fact is that he was a North Country man, with his traditional haunts as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest and a coastal refuge at Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire. Another chronicler has it that he was a Wakefield man and took part in Thomas of Lancaster’s rebellion in 1322. However the first known literary reference to Robin Hood and his men was in 1377, and the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum have an account of Robin’s life which states that he was born around 1160 in Lockersley (most likely modern day Loxley) in South Yorkshire. The Hollywood one is that of an incredibly handsome man – Errol Flynn – clothed in garments of Lincoln green, fighting for the rights of the oppressed and outwitting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. There are several versions of the Robin Hood story. Legend has it that Robin Hood was an outlaw living in Sherwood Forest with his ‘Merry Men’ – but did he really exist?
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