Robin Hoods?

If you're from a certain demogarphic there are icons that inform your world view - granted, some world views are smaller than others and don't include film - My world includes the somewhat mythic character of Robin Hood and his various manifestion in film: Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) classic being the measure for my cohort.

There are others. The 1950s TV series, a show I remember enjoying as a boy.

More recent incarnations:

Robin and Marian (1976) directed by Richard Lester with Sean Connery, Nicole Williamson and Audrey Hepburn.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) directed by Kevin Reynolds with Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Christian Slater was also fun if a little too Land of the Ewoks in the forest.

But I think an overlooked film is Robin Hood, also a 1991 production, directed by John Irvin with a great cast including Peter Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jeroen Krabbe, Jurgen Prochnow and Edward Fox. It has the verasimilitude and spice of a Tony Richardson's Tom Jones and Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and is plain good fun.

Overall recommended.