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The Ribald Tales of Robin Hood
I have vague childhood memories of what I discover today was
“When Things Were Rotten", a comedy TV series by Mel Brooks that
mock Robin Hood. For me, the legendary figure of the archer has always
been linked to this series, more than to the bullshit with Kevin
Kostner or to a thousand other films on the subject, including Mel
Brooks’ in 1993, which had lights and shadows.
Now I have to review my references, because I have seen this "The
Ribald Tales of Robin Hood", from 1969, which is better and interesting
than many other richer and more famous versions and, adding the great
load of naked bodies and sex, I can say abundantly better.
A film mysterious as the character who it is inspired and unfortunately
a forgotten film, because there is very little about around the web.
IMDB classifies him as a co-production between the United States and
Germany, and as co-director there is none other than Erwin C. Dietrich
who would have shot the exteriors for the European version.
Behind the camera there is Richard Kanter American hard director, who
also writes the screenplay for a film that has the best known face in
Lynn Cartwright ("The Wasp Woman" and "Queen of outer space" for us b's
lovers) .
A very low-budget production that seeks (and succeeds) decent sets and
follows the central core of the events with some obvious "poetic
license". Robin Hood is always him, he steals from the rich to give to
the poor, giving problems to the Sheriff of Nottingham, on the payroll
of the usurper of the King.
Robin Hood and his friends continue their life and often, they have sex and orgies.
To catch him, the bad guys put on a busty woman, that is Maid Marian
(Dee Lockwood) in love with the hero, but jelous Hood’s lover
sets a trap for him.
So Hood is captured and imprisoned and especially Maid Marian tortured
in a BDSM lesbian scene with Lynn Cartwright, not bad at all. But the
good, indeed, the sex, triumphs. And the King is returning.
A funny b movie in which Kanter inserts several sometimes surprising
things, such as violence and torture, strange things for a light,
unpretentious and very silly context. But the whole thing surprisingly
works. And we can swear that they are proud of their American accent.
