Product details: - Product group: DVD
- Edition: DVD
- Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
- Format: Animated, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
- Release Date: 2002-07-22
- Number of discs: 1
- Starring: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans
- Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
- Encoding: Region 2
- Run Time: 80 minutes
- Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
- Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
- Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
- Package Dimensions: 7.48 x 53 x 75 inches
A minor classic from Disney, this 1973 all-animal, all-animated musical version of the familiar story of Robin Hood is more charming than one might expect. Perhaps it's the warm, chummy take on key relationships within the legend--the way Robin Hood (Brian Bedford) gets twitterpated whenever the subject of Maid Marian (Monica Evans) comes up or the way best pal Little John (Phil Harris voicing a variation on his own Baloo from The Jungle Book) admonishes the Sherwood Forest hero, "Aw, Rob, why dontcha just marry the girl?" (Then, of course, there's the canny "casting" of the romantic leads as foxes: Robin the sly one and Marian the, well, foxy one.) The rest of the vocal cast is lively and eclectic: Peter Ustinov, Andy Devine, Terry Thomas, George Lindsey. Roger Miller provides the songs and voice for the minstrel character Allan-A-Dale. The film is ably directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, whose decades of work in Disney's animation division helped create the studio's rich legacy. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.comCustomer reviews:  The Original Disney version, 2008-02-20
The Video cover shown is NOT for the animated version described - it is for the film (not animated) version of the Walt Disney film circa 1950? The film was a 'classic' starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch and Hubert Gregg. I have seen it many times and have the VHS version as shown on your site. I had trouble finding a copy!
 Misses the Mark, 2007-08-24
Given the worthy actors in this film it isn't quite bad enough to be terrible, but it is an embarrassment. Richard Todd usually turns in a good performance, but here, as Robin Hood, he is one-dimensional and completely unconvincing, as are James Hayter (Friar Tuck) and James Robertson Justice (Little John). Peter Finch as the Sheriff of Nottingham turns out the best acting performance, but that's relative -- he's just the best of a bad bunch. As to Joan Rice as Maid Marian, the less said the better -- 'inept' is less enough.
This is essentially a British film, but stamped 'Disney', replete with cardboard castles and imitation countryside. Perhaps it was made for children. I know I enjoyed it as a 10-year-old at the Essoldo in Salford, though it was the singing of Elton Hayes as the minstrel that has enhanced my recollection of it. His role holds up well, and while the songs may not be classics, they are evocative and partly redeem this cheap celluloid effort.
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