Robin Hood (1922 movie)
Robin Hood is a 1922 silent movie. It stars Douglas Fairbanks. Robin Hood was the first movie to have a Hollywood premiere.[2] The premiere was held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922.
| Robin Hood | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Allan Dwan |
| Written by | Douglas Fairbanks |
| Produced by | Douglas Fairbanks |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Wallace Beery Enid Bennett Sam De Grasse Alan Hale |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson & Charles Richardson |
| Edited by | William Nolan |
| Music by | Victor Schertzinger |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | October 18, 1922 |
Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
| Box office | $1 million (US/Canada)[1] |
The movie's full title is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood. It was one of the most expensive movies of the 1920s. It cost about $1,000,000 to make. The movie is about the famous English outlaw. The movie received mostly good reviews.
In spite of the movie's careful construction, it received some negative responses. Vachel Lindsay thought the movie was "a heavy exhibit of armor that does not move." He thought it a failure because the first half of the movie was basically spectacle.
Nonetheless, Robin Hood was thought at the time to be a milestone in the development of movie art. It would be overshadowed however by the hugely popular Errol Flynn movie of 1938.[3]
Notes
change- ↑ Variety list of box office champions for 1922
- ↑ Zollo, p. 313.
- ↑ Vance 2008, p. 150.
References
change- Vance, Jeffrey. 2008. Douglas Fairbanks. University of California Press.
- Zollo, Paul. 2002. Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age. Taylor Trade Publications.
