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The Story of Robin Hood
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ken Annakin
Produced by Perce Pearce
Walt Disney
Written by Lawrence Edward Watkin
Starring Richard Todd
Joan Rice
Peter Finch
Music by Clifton Parker
Cinematography Guy Green
Studio Walt Disney Productions
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s) March 13, 1952 (1952-03-13) (Premiere-London)
June 26, 1952 (1952-06-26) (US)
Running time 84 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Language English
Money made $2.1 million (US rentals)

The Story of Robin Hood is a 1952 action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures based on the Robin Hood legend, made in Technicolor and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Ken Annakin. It is the second of Disney's complete live-action films, after Treasure Island (1950), and the first of four films Annakin directed for Disney.

Plot

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing.

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Los arqueros del rey para niños

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