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. The premiere was held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922.

Robin Hood
Directed by	Allan Dwan
Produced by	Douglas Fairbanks
Written by	Douglas Fairbanks
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Wallace Beery Enid Bennett Sam De Grasse Alan Hale
Music by	Victor Schertzinger
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson & Charles Richardson
Edited by	William Nolan
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 18, 1922 (1922-10-18)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles
Box office	$1 million (US/Canada)

Robin Hood

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.

Robin Hood (1922 Movie) Media

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  Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood giving Enid Bennett as Maid Marian (sic) a dagger; a screenshot from the 1922 United Artists film Robin Hood (1922).

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  Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett, and Douglas Fairbanks listen to a recent invention only widely broadcasting for the previous three years: a radio.

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  Fairbanks as Robin Hood on the cover of Photoplay, illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

References

• Vance, Jeffrey. 2008. Douglas Fairbanks. University of California Press.
• Zollo, Paul. 2002. Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age. Taylor Trade Publications.