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* TheTourney: King John's henchmen [[NotSoFakePropWeapon fix a faulty protective cap to the Flemish Knight's lance]], who has challenged Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, to a joust.
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* RougishPoacher: Will Scarlet. When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will [[StockPunishment locked up in a pillory]] in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the pillory.

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* RougishPoacher: RoguishPoacher: Will Scarlet. When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will [[StockPunishment locked up in a pillory]] in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the pillory.
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* RougishPoacher: Will Scarlet. When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will [[StockPunishment locked up in a pillory]] in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the pillory.
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* InTheBack: King John summons four of the barons to his castle where he [[NastyParty has his archers shoot them in the back]].
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* ArrangedMarriage: King John promises his ward Lady Marianne in marriage to the Count of Flanders in order to secure access to Flanders' army.
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* PutTheirHeadsTogether: When the Merry Men ambush King John's party on the road to St. Dunstan's, Little John notices two soldiers fighting back to back and knocks them out by slamming their heads together.

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* StockPunishment: When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will Scarlet locked up in a set of stocks in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the stocks.

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* StockPunishment: When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will Scarlet locked up in a set of stocks pillory in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the stocks.pillory.


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* TwangHello: There is a montage of shots of King John's men oppressing the peasantry only for the leader to suddenly keel over with an arrow in his chest. Additionally, when Will Scarlet [[StockPunishment is locked up in the pillory]], an arrow flies into the pillory from off-screen, heralding Robin's arrival.
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* LeftForDead: King John summons four of the barons to his castle where he [[NastyParty has his archers shoot them in the back]]. He then has his men dumped in the forest in an attempt to [[FrameUp frame Robin Hood for their deaths]]. However, one of the barons, Fitzwilliam, survives to clear Robin's name and rouse the remaining barons against John.
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* ArrowsOnfire: Little John fires a flaming arrow through the night sky to summon the old Merry Men back to robin's side.

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* ArrowsOnfire: ArrowsOnFire: Little John fires a flaming arrow through the night sky to summon the old Merry Men back to robin's side.

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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Full marks to King John's gaolers who, on hearing a strange noise from the cell of Robin hood and Little John go to nvestigate with both of them entering the cell ''and'' leaving the cell door open behind them.
* TheLadysFavour: Before his joust against the Flemish knight, Robin asks for, and receives, the favour of Lady Marianne; the ward of King John. she ties her scarf around his lance.

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Robin Hood's son is responsible for the Baron's bringing King John to Runnymeade forcing him to sign the Magna Carta.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Full marks to King John's gaolers who, on hearing a strange noise from the cell of Robin hood and Little John go to nvestigate investigate with both of them entering the cell ''and'' leaving the cell door open behind them.
* TheLadysFavour: Before his joust against the Flemish knight, Robin asks for, and receives, the favour of Lady Marianne; the ward of King John. she She ties her scarf around his lance.
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* {{Arrowgram}}: Robin's sends Marianne a message telling her to pretend to obey the king's will but insist on being married to Flanders at St. Dunstan's Abbey by tying it to an arrow and firing it through the window of her bedchamber and into her door.


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* NastyParty: King John invites several of the barons to a banquet. Robin Hood attempts to warn them that it is a trap, but they ignore him. At the banquet, King John has his archers shoot them InTheBack and then dumps the bodies outside the castle in an attempt to [[FrameUp frame Robin hood for the murders]]. However, one of the barons, Fitzwilliam, is NotQuiteDead and survives to clear Robin's name and rouse the remaining barons against John.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The are multiple references to King Richard's 'democratic rule'. The reign of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart may have been many things, but democratic was not one of them.



* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After escaping from Prince John's dungeon, Robin and Little John decide they cannot fight all of King's John's men alone, so wet off to reassemble the old Merry Men.

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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After escaping from Prince John's dungeon, Robin and Little John decide they cannot fight all of King's John's men alone, so wet set off to reassemble the old Merry Men.
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After escaping from Prince John's dungeon, Robin and Little John decide they cannot fight all of King's John's men alone, so wet off to reassemble the old Merry Men.
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* ArrowsOnfire: Little John fires a flaming arrow through the night sky to summon the old Merry Men back to robin's side.


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* StockPunishment: When Robin and Little John are PuttingTheBandBackTogether, they find Will Scarlet locked up in a set of stocks in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the stocks.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Full marks to King John's gaolers who, on hearing a strange noise from the cell of Robin hood and Little John go to nvestigate with both of them entering the cell ''and'' leaving the cell door open behind them.


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* ThrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: During the fight in Nottingham square, robin sees one of King john's men about to stab Little John from behind. He throws his sword like a javelin from a balcony over Little John's shoulder and spears the soldier through the chest.

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* ThrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: During the fight in Nottingham square, robin sees one of King john's men about to stab Little John from behind. He throws his sword like a javelin from a balcony over Little John's shoulder and spears the soldier through the chest.
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* thhrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: During the fight in Nottingham square, robin sees one of King john's men about to stab Little John from behind. He throws his sword like a javelin from a balcony over Little John's shoulder and spears the soldier through the chest.

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* thhrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: ThrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: During the fight in Nottingham square, robin sees one of King john's men about to stab Little John from behind. He throws his sword like a javelin from a balcony over Little John's shoulder and spears the soldier through the chest.
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''Rogues of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1950 Technicolor adventure film from Columbia Pictures, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring John Derek as Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Myth/RobinHood, Diana Lynn as Lady Marianne, and Alan Hale, Sr. in his third Robin Hood film role as Little John during a 28-year period.

When King John imposes oppressive taxes and cruel treatment upon the local population in medieval England, the son of legendary bandit Robin Hood reforms his father's "Merry Men" to once more rise against the king.
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* TheLadysFavour: Before his joust against the Flemish knight, Robin asks for, and receives, the favour of Lady Marianne; the ward of King John. she ties her scarf around his lance.
* NotSoFakePropWeapon: King John's henchmen fix a faulty protective cap to the Flemish Knight's lance, who has challenged Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, to a joust.
* thhrowingyourSwordAlwaysWork: During the fight in Nottingham square, robin sees one of King john's men about to stab Little John from behind. He throws his sword like a javelin from a balcony over Little John's shoulder and spears the soldier through the chest.
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