An injured traveller, shot by the Sheriff of Nottingham’s men, is taken care of by Robin Hood and his outlaw band in Sherwood Forest, but despite their help he dies, the words “danger at Bawtry” on his lips. It is the prelude to another exciting adventure for Robin and his Merrie Men, as they uncover a plot by the scheming Sheriff and the traitorous Earl of Newark to seize Bawtry Castle from King Richard’s Chancellor, who is also the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Production Details
A Hammer film production in association with Yeoman Films Ltd. released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLX by Hammer Film Productions Ltd, – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Print by Technicolor, TItles by Chambers & Partners Megascope
Produced at Ardmore Studios, Ireland
Eastmancolour processed at Humphries Laboratories
80mins
Filming Began: 23rd May 1960
UK Release: 26th December 1960
Studio:
Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Locations:
Powerscourt Estate, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | John Stoll | 47 | 13 Dec 1913 | 25 Jun 1990 | 76 | 5 | 5 | ||
Assistant Camera | Stuart Hetherington | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Bob Porter | 36 | 8 Aug 1924 | 8.08.1924 | 100 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Operator | Richard Bayley | 31 | 9 Dec 1929 | 19 Jan 2011 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Casting | Stuart Lyons | 32 | 1928 | 23 Feb 1998 | 70 | 8 | 8 | ||
Continuity | Pauline Harlow (Wise) | 22 | 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 86 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
Continuity | Dot Foreman | 33 | 20 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Costume Supervisor | John McCorry | 34 | 1926 | 1966 | 40 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/terence-fisher/# | 56 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Director of Photography | Ken Hodges | 38 | 25 Oct 1922 | 1993 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
Editor | Lee Doig | 40 | 1920 | 1996 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Executive Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 84 | 8 | 92 | |
Hairdresser | Hilda Fox | 43 | 26 Dec 1917 | Feb 1990 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Make-up | Gerry Fletcher | 53 | 26 Feb 1907 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Master at Arms | Patrick Crean | 48 | 27 Jun 1912 | 22 Dec 2003 | 91 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Master of Archery | Jack Cooper | 37 | 1923 | 2010 | 87 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Master of Horse | Ivor Collin | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Music Composer | Alun Hoddinott | 31 | 11 Aug 1929 | 12 Mar 2008 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-hollingsworth/# | 44 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 37 | 3 | 40 | |
Producer | Sidney Cole | 52 | 31 Oct 1908 | 25 Jan 1998 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Producer | Richard Greene | 42 | 25 Aug 1918 | 1 Jun 1985 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Production Manager | Ronald Liles | 40 | 1920 | 01.01.1920 | 104 | 1 | 1 | ||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-weeks/# | 56 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Screenplay | Alan Hackney | 36 | 10 Sep 1924 | 15 May 2009 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Denis Johnson | 23 | 1937 | 9 Jan 2022 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Songs Composer | Stanley Black | 47 | 14 Jun 1913 | 26 Nov 2002 | 89 | 5 | 5 | ||
Sound Editor | Alban Streeter | 30 | 1930 | 01.01.1930 | 94 | 7 | 7 | ||
Sound Mixer | John Mitchell | 43 | 14 Feb 1917 | 21 Nov 2005 | 88 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sound Mixer | Harry Tate | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Stunts | Jack Cooper | 37 | 1923 | 2010 | 87 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Stunts | Nosher Powell | 32 | 15 Aug 1928 | 20 Apr 2013 | 84 | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
Stunts | Paddy Ryan | 49 | 3 Jan 1911 | 10 May 1990 | 79 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rachel Austin | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
1st Falconer | Brian Rawlinson | 29 | 12 Nov 1931 | 23 Nov 2000 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
1st Man of Arms | Reginald Hearne | 45 | 28 Jan 1915 | 9 Mar 2002 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
1st Veteran Outlaw | Aiden Grennell | 40 | 10 Jan 1920 | 13 Jan 2001 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Alan ADale | Dennis Lotis | 35 | 8 Mar 1925 | 8 Feb 2023 | 97 | 1 | 1 | ||
Archbishops Adjutant | John Franklyn | 48 | 1912 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Chancellor/Archbishop of Canterbury | Jack Gwillim | 51 | 15 Dec 1909 | 2 Jul 2001 | 91 | 2 | 2 | ||
Earl of Newark | Richard Pasco | 34 | 18 Jul 1926 | 12 Nov 2014 | 88 | 4 | 4 | ||
Friar Tuck | Niall MacGinnis | 47 | 29 Mar 1913 | 6 Jan 1977 | 63 | 3 | 3 | ||
Injured Traveller | Desmond Llewelyn | 46 | 12 Sep 1914 | 19 Dec 1999 | 85 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Judge | Anew McMaster | 69 | 14 Dec 1891 | 24 Aug 1962 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Little John | Nigel Green | 36 | 15 Oct 1924 | 15 May 1972 | 47 | 2 | 2 | ||
Lord Melton | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/oliver-reed/# | 22 | 13 Feb 1938 | 2 May 1999 | 61 | 9 | 9 | ||
Lord Ollerton | Patrick Crean | 48 | 27 Jun 1912 | 22 Dec 2003 | 91 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Maid Marion | Sarah Branch | 22 | 7 Jan 1938 | 10 Nov 2007 | 69 | 2 | 2 | ||
Martin of Eastwood | Derren Nesbitt | 25 | 19 Jun 1935 | 19.06.1935 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Officer | Barry de Boulay | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Old Bowyer | Charles Lamb | 60 | 20 Nov 1900 | 19 Mar 1989 | 88 | 4 | 4 | ||
Old Jack | John Hoey | 41 | 1919 | 11 Aug 1978 | 59 | 1 | 1 | ||
Portress | Maureen Halligan | 46 | 6 May 1914 | 19 Oct 2008 | 94 | 1 | 1 | ||
Prioress | Vanda Godsell | 38 | 17 Nov 1922 | 2 Apr 1990 | 67 | 3 | 3 | ||
Retford | Adam Keane | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Robin Hood | Richard Greene | 42 | 25 Aug 1918 | 1 Jun 1985 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Robins Merry Man in Tree | Paddy Ryan | 49 | 3 Jan 1911 | 10 May 1990 | 79 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Roger, a Merry Man | James Neylin | 40 | 9 Mar 1920 | 25 Sep 1965 | 45 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sheriff of Nottingham | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 47 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Sheriffs Aide | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/edwin-richfield/# | 39 | 11 Sep 1921 | 2 Aug 1990 | 68 | 10 | 10 | ||
Villager | John Cowley | 37 | 8 Sep 1923 | 13 Feb 1998 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Hammer played an important part in the early career of Oliver Reed. His other appearances for them were in The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll (1960), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), The Damned (1961), The Pirates of Blood River (1962), Captain Clegg (1962), The Scarlet Blade (1962), Paranoiac (1963) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965).
Nigel Green played Christopher Lee’s arch-enemy Nayland Smith in the first of his five yellow peril films, The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), whereas Richard Greene played the same part in the last two, The Blood of Fu Manchu and The Castle of Fu Manchu (both 1968).
Irish actor Niall MacGinnis was acclaimed for his performance as the sinister Dr Karswell in Jacques Tourneur’s terrifying Night of the Demon (1957). For Hammer, he also appeared in Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) and The Viking Queen (1967).
Richard Pasco later returned to Hammer in 1964 for The Gorgon and in 1966 for Rasputin – the Mad Monk.
Desmond Llewelyn, who became world famous as “Q” in the James Bond films, has a smart part here as the traveller who starts all the trouble. He can also be seen playing a footman in Hammer’s The Curse of the Werewolf (1961).