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Patrick Barr in The Story of Robin Hood Patrick Barr, resplendent as Richard the Lionheart, prepares to depart for the Holy Land in Disney’s...

  Bill Owen (1914-1999), in the role of Will Stutely, stands beside one of the many giant coppiced trees in Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire...

A decade before writing the Christmas classic “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” Eddie Pola and George Wyle were composing songs f...

  Another fine example of Disney’s impressive promotion for The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) is this collectable book, pub...

Anthony Forwood as Will Scarlet  I have often lamented the fact that this film never received a sequel. With today’s trend of studios transf...

Peter Finch as the Sheriff of Nottingham We never see the Sheriff pick up a longbow in the film. It was probably one of many clips that even...

  Robin Hood has long been celebrated as a hero of the people, so when Walt Disney sought a leading man for his live-action film about the l...

  Another photograph of Joan Rice, our Maid Marian, taken at the premiere of Walt Disney’s The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men at the...