Robin Hood
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey, Sam De Grasse, Wallace Beery, William LoweryBrand: Kino International DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown) Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Silent Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 127 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-02-03 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Model: 3312 Studio: Kino Video Movie Reviews of Robin HoodMovie Review: A wonderful costume drama
Though perhaps not as consistently action-filled and developed plotwise as other of Fairbanks's films, I really enjoyed this one. I was prepared for it to be a typical silent costume drama as it began, but though it does have a number of the same potential drawbacks (particularly for someone new to the silent cinema), such as an awful lot of intertitles, a plot that could use more definition and shape, a lot of different characters to keep track of, and a longer running time than most silents, it's a lot more interesting and faster-paced than most seem to be. And some people aren't going to like costume dramas anyway because not everyone likes history, or at least the historical era in that particular film. Medieval history was never one of my own fields of interest until just recently; in the past several years I've come to love that era more and more, so the historical setting held an added interest for me. (Usually these costume dramas seem to be set in 17th or 18th century France.) The first half of the film does move a bit slowly at times, which certainly could bore some people, but that serves to set up the situation and characters. This cinematic device can work very well at really drawing the viewer into the story and keeping his or her interest in the slowly but surely unfolding plot. The second half is much more action-packed, the kind of thing Doug was famous for, even though it's not the movie to watch if you're interested in seeing him take center-stage for most of the action. With so many other characters here, he's not always going to be the center of the action or even onscreen at all.
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