Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
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Director John Hough Distributed by Hammer Film Productions Writer David Butler Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Adventure Film Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1973 Cast David Warbeck , Kathleen Byron , Ciaran Madden Similar movies Related John Hough movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood is an adventure film starring David Warbeck, Ciaran Madden, Kathleen Byron, David Butler and Kenneth Gilbert, and directed by John Hough. The film was the debut movie of actor David Warbeck as Robin Hood. The film was originally a 1969 television series pilot but was released in movie theatres in 1973. The film was also released under the title The Legend of Young Robin Hood.
Plot
Robert of Loxley, a simple farmer, is working his land when a fellow Saxon runs through their property attempting to escape Sir Jeffrey and the Royal Game Warden. Robert denies seeing the alleged poacher, and the fight, which ensues, is destined to seal his fate.
When Sir Jeffrey’s brother, Roger of Doncaster, learns that Robert of Loxley was not killed for his insolence, he determines to use the incident to have him arrested and his lands confiscated. Sir Roger’s ulterior motive is that his intended bride Lady Marian Fitzwater has had feelings for Robert from childhood and this stands in the way of his marriage to her. So he enlists the help of the Abbott to have Robert made a Wolfshead: an outlaw whose head is worth that of a wolf’s, dead or alive.
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