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The Adventures of Robin Hood - The Miser
episode 1.26
UK 1956
produced by
Sidney Cole, Hannah Weinstein (executive) for Sapphire Films/ITV
directed by Bernard Knowles
starring Richard Greene, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge, Laurence Naismith, Alan Wheatley, Patricia Marmont, Charles Stapley, Paul Connell, Willoughby Gray, John Dearth, Arthur Skinner, Victor Woolf
written by Ralph Smart, music by Edwin Astley
TV-series
Robin Hood, Robin Hood (Richard Greene), Adventures of Robin Hood, Adventures of Robin Hood (1950's)
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Sir William (Laurence Naismith) is an especially greedy miser aas he
doesn't only collect high loans from his tenant farmers but also his taxes
he owes to the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Wheatley). So Robin Hood
(Richard Greene) and company decide to play a nasty prank on the man,
first exchaning his tax money for buttons, which the Sheriff sees as an
insult when he opens the moneybag. Then it is made known to Sir William
that there is a magician in the forest (actually Robin in disguise) who
has the ability to turn buttons into silver - and Sir William believes the
rumour and even buries all of his own silver outside his castle - where
Robin's men dig it up of course and exchange it for more buttons. So when
the Sheriff arrives to collect Sir William's debt, Sir William finds he
owns nothing but a myriad of buttons - which leads the Sheriff to throw
the greedy miser off his own land - but Robin Hood is at least decent
enough to return enough of his silver to him to last through the winter
... A very childish episode. Sure, the whole series was
primarily made for pre-teen boys, but I doubt even they would have
approved of a simplistic story like this.
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