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Richard and John feuded during Richard’s reign and the feud continued with Richard’s regent while he was on crusade. Upon the death of Henry II in 1189, his third son, Richard who would be known as the Lionheart, awarded lands to his brother John, including those of Sherwood Forest. When translated to modern English, this excerpt from Langland’s poem reads “Although I can’t recite the Lord’s Prayer, I do know the rhymes of Robin Hood.” The legend of Robin Hood rose out of the chaos of the reign of King John of England, during the early thirteenth century. “I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth, The first known reference in English verse to Robin Hood is found in The Vision of Piers Plowman, a Middle English allegorical poem written by William Langland in the latter half of the 14th century. The origins of Robin Hood date back to the late 14th and early 15th century, when he became a titular character of various songs, poems and ballads.
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IMDb calls her Caterina Altieri, but I'm guessing (from the billing) that she's Stefania Sartori instead, but not the "Stefania Sartori" credited with appearing as Juliet.Was there really a fifth-century warrior king at war with the Angles and Saxons? Did he have a round table of knights? Where was Camelot? Now, twenty-first century forensic archaeology allows us to suggest new answers to these age-old questions. Since the actors' roles are never identified in these stinkers, there is confusion over who played what suffice it to say that the same tall & slim, pale beauty who played Beatrice, helping out Romeo in his video is cast as Maid Marian in this one. Cast is nearly identical with that for D'Amato's JULIET AND ROMEO. This silliness is an excuse for lots of sex, with Michaels doing a lot of the mixed-combo humping. It's all jumbled together in the final print. In long shots during this sequence she is nude, but in closer shots is wearing her chastity belt, a glaring mismatch every time there's a cut.
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An even dumber continuity error occurs during one of many slapstick scenes where the Sheriff torments a hapless peasant regarding his wife. Robert Hod owed the money to St Peter's in York. Surprise ending has King Richard incognito winning the contest, having surreptitiously just returned from The Crusades, and setting everything right in the kingdom. The earliest known legal records mentioning a person called Robin Hood (Robert Hod) are from 1226, found in the York Assizes, when that person's goods, worth 32 shillings and 6 pence, were confiscated and he became an outlaw. Film culminates in a very poorly staged archery tournament called by the King, with the winner to get Marian's hand and (contradictorily) all her lands and possessions (continuity person forgot about the Rebecca subplot a reel earlier). Lovely Maid Marian is abducted by the King and her title and lands are to be turned over to her treacherous servant Rebecca, who for the fans is sexy enough (with over-sized nipples to boot) to have us porn hounds overlook her wrongdoings.
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So Robin of Sherwood pops up (in the form of Mark Davis), repeatedly stealing the keys and thereby making a hit with the townsfolk. This is fun, and my mind wandered to today's moronic Tea Party movement - I guess those stiffs would go along with the Christian Right and favor abstinence if a similar taxation plan were instituted today. If any peasant wants to get laid, he has to pay a tariff for the privilege. Adding to the silliness, the Sheriff wears a cheap turban (at first I thought it was an elaborate shower cap) -what's that all about? Key gimmick here is the use of chastity belts to raise money for King John's coffers, the Sheriff kidnaps all the town's women and fits them with the belts, giving the keys to the King. Just as the crappy Kevin Costner hit version ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES injected an anachronistic Black character into the mix (played by Morgan Freeman), D'Amato makes the Sheriff of Nottingham into a Black, broadly played by Sean Michaels in the film's leading role (Robin doesn't show up at all until over 30 minutes has elapsed). If you can stomach a horrendously asinine English-dubbing job, it's OK XXX diversion. ROBIN THIEF OF WIVES is Joe D'Amato's quickie take on the legendary hero, here reduced to dumb sex comedy.