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MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1973 DVD Release: 06/30/2000 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 23 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 174 Genres: Adventure, Children's/Family, Swashbuckler, Animated Musical See Also: Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition

Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the Disney tradition of adding human-like animal sidekicks to established tales (Cinderella, Pinnochio) a step further by making Robin Hood's legendary characters creatures themselves. Robin Hood (Brian Bedford) is a wily fox; Maid Marian (Monica Evans) is a beautiful vixen; Little John (Phil Harris) is a burly bear; Friar Tuck (Andy Devine) is a soft-spoken badger; the Sheriff of Nottingham (Pat Buttram) is a greedy wolf; and the scheming Prince John (Peter Ustinov) is a sniveling, groveling, thumb-sucking undersized lion with a serpent sidekick named Sir Hiss (Terry Thomas). The film begins after Prince John and Sir Hiss have tricked the true King into leaving the country on a phony crusade. With the help of the Sheriff of Nottingham, they tax the life out of Nottingham's peasants, leaving them all penniless but with the courageous Robin Hood as their only hope. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide

Brian Bedford - Robin Hood
Andy Devine - Friar Tuck
Peter Ustinov - Prince John
Roger Miller - Allan-A-Dale
George Lindsey - Trigger
Phil Harris - Little John
Terry-Thomas - Sir Hiss

Disney's animated version of Robin Hood comes to DVD with a standard full-frame 1.33:1 image. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no subtitles on this disc, but the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. As with many a Disney DVD, the supplemental materials are aimed at children. The extra features include a Robin Hood DVD storybook, an interactive trivia game, a sing-along for "Oo-de-lally," and a cartoon starring Mickey Mouse. Anyone looking for wholesome family entertainment will do fine with this DVD. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide