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Footage used from robin hood( 1939)


I swear some footage towards the end of the film is from robin hod( 1939), some of the men on horse back clearly have bows and arrows and not swords.

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thats exactly why I came on this board to check. at the beginning during the narration you see peasants standing in a crowd and further off there are two red hooded men preparing the gallows for someone to be hung. the house in the background and the men are identity to the hanging scene in Robin Hood (1939) its just from a different camera angle.


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Yeah cool my parents taped the film off the tv but they had missed the first 15 or so minutes so i didn't see that bit. But towrads the end where the musketeers are being reunited to fight the bits in the forrest are definately from it. Odd that they didn't have the cash to film it. The dvd is out on the warner archives which is good, think i'll buy it. chris

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I watched it today and saw the part you were talking about. It definitely was from Robin Hood, though it was common then to take excerpts from some movies just to save more. they didnt get the big budgets then, like they do now

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The same thing occurs in Flynn's "The Adventures of Don Juan", which was a big budget picture. One must rather bear in mind that there were no DVDs on those days, and therefore viewers didn't have the same opportunities to study films for their inconsistencies.

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Oh, it's from Robin Hood alright. Not only did they have bows and arrows, they have those very particular Robin Hood style pointy caps, and not a feather on them in sight, or the cowboy style hats the the 3 'junior' muscateers were earing.

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there are also shots lifted wholesale from "forever amber" in the opening sequences of this flick, the house on fire as the horsemen ride past, and a long shot of linda darnell as amber in a carriage crossing a bridge.

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Alot of that went on back in the day-
Gives us movie maniacs something to "discover"-it's fun to look for stuff like that and with todays digital tech-you can get to the exact frame-second things occur.

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