ROBIN HOOD
STARRING DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
1922

ORIGINAL COLOUR TINT VERSION

Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, was the first motion picture ever to have a Hollywood premiere, held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922. It was one of the most expensive films of the 1920s, with a budget estimated at approximately one million dollars. He was an excellent athlete and performed most of the stunts in his films himself. 

PLOT:
King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honour by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, labouring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils!

CAST:
Wallace Beery ... Richard the Lion-Hearted
Sam De Grasse ... Prince John
Enid Bennett ... Lady Marian Fitzwalter
Paul Dickey ... Sir Guy of Gisbourne
William Lowery ... The High Sheriff of Nottingham
Roy Coulson ... The King's Jester
Billie Bennett ... Lady Marian's Serving Woman
Merrill McCormick ... Henchman to Prince John
Wilson Benge ... Henchman to Prince John
Willard Louis ... Friar Tuck
Alan Hale ... Little John
Maine Geary ... Will Scarlett
Lloyd Talman ... Allan-a-Dale
Douglas Fairbanks ... The Earl of Huntingdon / Robin Hood

Directed by Allan Dwan

RUNNING TIME: 127 MINUTES