The Black Arrow is an adventure historical novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been adapted many times in various mediums, as listed below.
The Black Arrow and its many adaptations include:
Literature- The Black Arrow (1888) - The original novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Feature films
- The Black Arrow (1911) - Short film. Directed by Oscar Apfel. Starred Harold M. Shaw as Dick Shelton, Nathalie Jerome as Joanna Sedley, and Charles Ogle as Sir Daniel Brackley.
- The Black Arrow (1948) - Directed by Gordon Douglas. Starring Louis Hayward as Dick and Janet Blair as Joanna.
- The Black Arrow (1973) - A thirty-minute-long animated movie by Air Programs International. Directed by Leif Gram and scripted by John Palmer.
- Black Arrow (1985) - A Disney live-action film. Directed by John Hough. Benedict Taylor played Dick Shelton.
- Chyornaya strela (1985) - A Soviet film directed by Sergey Tarasov. Igor Shavlak starred as Dick Shelton and Galina Belyaeva as Joana Sedley.
- The Black Arrow (1988) - Animated film by Burbank Films Australia, starring Bob Baines and Claire Crowther.
Television series
- The Black Arrow (1951) - A two-parter British live-action series starring Denis Quilley as Dick.
- The Black Arrow (1958) - A live-action series by the BBC that is believved to be lost. Starred Patrick Blackwell as Richard Shelton, Anne Dickins as Joanna Sedley and Barry Letts as Sir Daniel Brackley.
- La Freccia Nera (1968) - Italian TV series. It ran for seven seasons.
- The Black Arrow (1972) - A British tv-series. It ran from 1972 to 1975. Robin Langford and later Simon Cuff played Richard Shelton.
Comic Books
- The Black Arrow (1946) - A comic-book adaptation published in issue #31 of the Classics Illustrated series. The story was adapted by Ruth Roche and Tom Scott, and illustrated by Arnold Hicks.
- La Flecha Negra (1964) - A comic-book adaptation published by Mexican Editorial Sea/Novaro in Tesoro de Cuentos Clásicos issue #89
- La Flecha Negra (1986) - A Spanish comic-book adaptation illustrated by Spanish artist Chiqui de la Fuente and published in Maravillas de la Literatura #14 (Editorial Larousse)
