History Film / RobinHood1991

* {{Outlaw}}: Robin Hood and the other bandits who are hiding out in Sherwood Forest. Bonus points for the fact that the film explains what historical outlawry really ''was'' too-not the status of being a criminal, but a specific sentence.

* AdaptationalNationality: In contrast to Guy of Gisborne whom he is based on, Miles Folcanet is French.

Simply called ''Robin Hood'', it stars [[Film/SleepingWithTheEnemy Patrick]] [[Film/PatriotGames Bergin]] as Robin and Creator/UmaThurman as Maid Marian. Other cast members include [[Creator/JurgenProchnow Jürgen Prochnow]] and Creator/JeroenKrabbe as the villains, Owen Teale as Will Scarlet, [[Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough Jeff Nutall]] as Friar Tuck, and Creator/DavidMorrissey as Little John.

You can't tell me, "It's not worth--"]] whoops, wrong movie.]]

The year 1991 saw the release of [[DuelingMovies two films]] based on the RobinHood legends: this one and the much better-known ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''.

Directed by John Irvin and produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, it was relegated to television in the United States but received a theatrical release abroad.

** Robin Hood's real name is sometimes given in literature (not the older ballads) as "Robert Fitzooth", but is here portrayed as "Robert Hode" - which isn't really changing much, as Robin as a pet name for Robert and Hode is just an older spelling of Hood.

* PornStache: As anyone can tell from the page image this is the kind of mustache that Robin has.

** Robin Hood, traditionally "Robert Fitzooth", is here portrayed as "Robert Hode".

* AntiVillain: Baron Daguerre is against Robin due more to the law than to malice, though he does allow acts of cruelty in the course of enforcing the law. At the start, he's Robert's friend and tries to be [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure fair to all sides]] when Sir Miles Folcanet demands that Robert be tried for aiding a poacher. He orders just one stroke of the lash, but this is too much for Robert who insults them both and gets outlawed.

%% * TheDungAges: The English countryside, and the towns and villages apart from the castles.
%% * FamedInStory: Robin and the Merry Men by the end.

* AnachronismStew: It adapts the Norman vs. Saxon conflict from ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' and likewise sets the story during the reign of King Richard. It goes further by having Robin being an earl as the story starts, in good standing with the Norman establishment. One of the lasting consequences of the Conquest was the near-total dispossession of Anglo-Saxon-held lands and titles, and the replacement of the Saxon elite by Normans, south of the River Tees. At best, a nobleman like Robin would have been an Anglo-Norman with a Saxon heiress for a grandmother.

* AnachronismStew: It adapts the Norman vs. Saxon conflict from ''Ivanhoe'' and likewise sets the story during the reign of King Richard. It goes further by having Robin being an earl as the story starts, in good standing with the Norman establishment. One of the lasting consequences of the Conquest was the near-total dispossession of Anglo-Saxon-held lands and titles, and the replacement of the Saxon elite by Normans, south of the River Tees. At best, a nobleman like Robin would have been an Anglo-Norman with a Saxon heiress for a grandmother.

* AnachronismStew: It adapts the Norman vs. Saxon conflict from ''Ivanhoe'' and likewise sets the story during the reign of King John. It goes further by having Robin being an earl as the story starts, in good standing with the Norman establishment. One of the lasting consequences of the Conquest was the near-total dispossession of Anglo-Saxon-held lands and titles, and the replacement of the Saxon elite by Normans, south of the River Tees. At best, a nobleman like Robin would have been an Anglo-Norman with a Saxon heiress for a grandmother.

** Traditionally, Robin's real name is Robert Fitzooth. Here, his suname is portrayed as Hode.