Rent Robin and Marian (1976)

Entertaining Robin Hood Adventure - Robin and Marian review by GI

Robin Hood has been an enduring film character from the silent film age and into the 21st century. This is an interesting addition in that it takes the legendary story and tells us what happened after those events ended. Director Richard Lester showed in his 'Musketeers' films that he had a unique style in the historical adventure genre with his roustabout humour and a modern twist in presenting the narrative. This film isn't as funny nor as enjoyable as the Musketeer ones but it is still a solid romantic adventure with a top cast. Robin (Sean Connery) returns to Sherwood twenty years after his outlaw days fighting the Sheriff of Nottingham. He's aging and tired having been in the army of King Richard (Richard Harris) fighting in France. On his return he finds that the Sheriff (Robert Shaw) still commands the area and his old flame, Marian (Audrey Hepburn) is now a nun. But soon events force Robin once again to take on the tyranny of the Sheriff in defence of Marian. The film is beautifully shot and has some muted fight scenes but overall it's an enjoyable adventure film with Nicol Williamson, Denholm Elliott and Ian Holm as support. It's a quite clever idea to tell a story of these protagonists and lovers as they've become older and utilises some aspects of the ancient legends to weave a good story.