Sword of Sherwood Forest – 1960

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

Storyline

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.

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Art Director	John Stoll	46	13 Dec 1913	25 Jun 1990	76	5
Assistant Director	Bob Porter	35	8 Aug 1924	Living	96	1
Camera Operator	Richard Bayley	30	9 Dec 1929	19 Jan 2011	81	1
Casting	Stuart Lyons	32	1928	23 Feb 1998	70	8
Continuity	Dot Foreman	32	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	1
Continuity	Pauline Wise (Harlow)	22	1938	Living	83	11
Costume Supervisor	John McCorry	34	1926	1966	40	1
Directed by	Terence Fisher	55	23 Feb 1904	18 Jun 1980	76	31
Director of Photography	Ken Hodges	37	25 Oct 1922	1993	70	3
Editor	Lee Doig	40	1920	1996	76	1
Executive Producer	Michael Carreras	32	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	83
Hairdresser	Hilda Fox	42	29 Dec 1917	1 Feb 1990	72	1
Make-up	Gerald Fletcher	52	26 Feb 1907			1
Master at Arms	Patrick Crean	47	27 Jun 1912	22 Dec 2003	91	1
Master of Archery	Jack Cooper	37	1923	2010	87	1
Master of Horse	Ivor Collin					1
Music Composed by	Alun Hoddinott	30	11 Aug 1929	12 Mar 2008	78	1
Musical Supervisor	John Hollingsworth	43	20 Mar 1916	29 Dec 1963	47	36
Produced by	Richard Greene	41	25 Aug 1918	1 Jun 1985	66	1
Produced by	Sidney Cole	51	31 Oct 1908	25 Jan 1998	89	1
Production Manager	Don Weeks	55	15 Nov 1904	1 Mar 1988	83	30
Production Manager	Ronald Liles	40	1920			1
Screenplay by	Alan Hackney	35	10 Sep 1924	15 May 2009	84	1
Songs Composed by	Stanley Black	46	14 Jun 1913	26 Nov 2002	89	5
Sound Editor	Alban Streeter	30	1930	Living	91	7
Sound Mixers	John Mitchell	42	14 Feb 1917	21 Nov 2005	88	1
Supervising Editor	James Needs	40	17 Oct 1919	2003	83	111
Wardrobe Mistress	Rachel Austin					1

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Alan A'Dale	Dennis Lotis	34	8 Mar 1925	Living	96	1
Chancellor/Archbishop of Canterbury	Jack Gwillim	50	15 Dec 1909	2 Jul 2001	91	2
Earl of Newark	Richard Pasco	33	18 Jul 1926	12 Nov 2014	88	4
Friar Tuck	Niall Macginnis	46	29 Mar 1913	6 Jan 1977	63	3
Injured Traveller	Desmond Llewelyn	45	12 Sep 1914	19 Dec 1999	85	2
Little John	Nigel Green	35	15 Oct 1924	15 May 1972	47	2
Maid Marion	Sarah Branch	21	3 Jan 1938	10 Nov 2007	69	2
Martin of Eastwood	Derren Nesbitt	24	19 Jun 1935	Living	85	1
Melton	Oliver Reed	21	13 Feb 1938	2 May 1999	61	9
Old Bowyer	Charles Lamb	59	20 Nov 1900	19 Mar 1989	88	4
Prioress	Vanda Godsell	37	17 Nov 1922	2 Apr 1990	67	3
Robin Hood	Richard Greene	41	25 Aug 1918	1 Jun 1985	66	1
Sheriff of Nottingham	Peter Cushing	46	26 May 1913	11 Aug 1994	81	24
Sheriff's Aide	Edwin Richfield	38	11 Sep 1921	2 Aug 1990	68	10

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).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection