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Robin and Marian (1976)
Director: Richard Lester
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Maybe it was because audiences expected another Four Musketeers-style romp that this flopped on its first release. There are quite a few typical Lester gags on the fringes of its tale of an elderly Robin returning to Sherwood from the Crusades and finding that Marian has become Abbess of a local priory; but the movie is conceived and executed in an elegaic key (not unlike Siegel's The Shootist), and played with an unfashionable depth of feeling (especially by Connery and Hepburn, both terrific). It's one of those rare movies, like King Hu's Touch of Zen, that handles its historical imagery so cleanly, and contains its pretensions so solidly within sure characterisation and plotting, that it is often sublimely expressive.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Lester
Producer: Denis O'Dell
Cast: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson, Denholm Elliott, Kenneth Haigh, Ronnie Barker, Ian Holm, Bill Maynard, Esmond Knight full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 107 mins
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