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 | 97 | 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 | 84 | 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 | 82 | |
Hairdresser | Hilda Fox | 42 | 26 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 | 2 | |
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 | 102 | 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 | 30 Nov 1929 | 92 | 7 | ||
Sound Mixers | John Mitchell | 42 | 14 Feb 1917 | 21 Nov 2005 | 88 | 2 | |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 40 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 110 | |
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 | 97 | 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 | 7 Jan 1938 | 10 Nov 2007 | 69 | 2 | |
Martin of Eastwood | Derren Nesbitt | 24 | 19 Jun 1935 | 86 | 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 | 2 | |
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 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 23 May 1960 | |
UK RELEASE | 26 December 1960 | |
STUDIO | Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland | |
LOCATION | Powerscourt Estate, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland |
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