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	*[https://archive.org/details/missrobinhood Complete film] at [[Internet Archive]]		*[https://archive.org/details/missrobinhood Complete film] at [[Internet Archive]]

	==References==		==References==
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{{Infobox film
| name = Miss Robin Hood
| image = "Miss_Robin_Hood".jpg
| caption = [[Margaret Rutherford]]
| director = [[John Guillermin]]
| producer = Donald B. Wilson executive [[John Grierson]]
| writer = [[Val Valentine]] dialogue [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]] treatment Geoffrey Orme
|story= Reed de Rouen
| starring = [[Margaret Rutherford]] [[Richard Hearne]] [[James Robertson Justice]]
| music = Temple Abady
| cinematography = [[Arthur Grant (cinematographer)|Arthur Grant]]
| editing = [[Manuel del Campo]]
| studio = [[Group 3 Films]]
| distributor = [[Associated British Film Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1952|11}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Miss Robin Hood''''' is a 1952 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Guillermin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b090120 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712172802/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b090120 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-12 |title=Miss Robin Hood (1952) | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-24}}</ref> and starring [[Margaret Rutherford]] and [[Richard Hearne]]. Other actors involved include [[Dora Bryan]], [[James Robertson Justice]], [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]], [[Sid James]], [[Reg Varney]], [[Kenneth Connor]] and [[Michael Medwin]]. The film features a variety of unusual camera work such as unexpected extreme [[close-up]]s and [[fast motion]] sequences.

==Plot==
A writer named Wrigley ([[Richard Hearne]]) creates a comic strip character named ''Miss Robin Hood'' for a children's story paper. It is a modernized retelling of the [[Robin Hood]] legend in which the heroine robs banks with the assistance of a gang of teenage girls and then redistributes the money.

Unfortunately the cartoon is dropped from the paper, and Wrigley leaves his job. However, Miss Honey ([[Margaret Rutherford]]), who is director of a home for the orphans of London in Hampstead, recruits Wrigley to carry out a little light safebreaking, believing that he has such skills because he created ''Miss Robin Hood''. Difficulties arise when [[Scotland Yard]] becomes involved.

==Cast==
{{castlist|
* [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Miss Honey
* [[Richard Hearne]] as Henry Wrigley
* [[Edward Lexy]] as Wilson
* [[Fanny Rowe|Frances Rowe]] as Marion
* [[Michael Medwin]] as Ernest
* [[Eunice Gayson]] as Pam
* [[Sid James|Sidney James]] as Sidney
* [[Dora Bryan]] as Pearl
* [[Eric Berry (actor)|Eric Berry]] as Lord Otterbourne
* [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as Lidstone
* [[James Robertson Justice]] as Macalister
* [[Reg Varney]] as Henry Wrigley's assistant
* [[Ian Carmichael]] newspaper staff
}}

==Production==
Disney were making ''The Story of Robin Hood'' and were reportedly unhappy that the Group 3 Film could be confused with theirs.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230707453 |title=Don't miss it |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2556 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 April 1952 |access-date=26 September 2020 |page=34 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Filming took place in June 1952.<ref>Round the British Studios
Nepean, Edith. Picture Show; London Vol. 58, Iss. 1524, (Jun 14, 1952): 11.</ref>

==Critical reception==
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' called it "a haphazard mixture of farce and fantasy... this slapdash and undergraduatish piece."<ref>MISS ROBIN HOOD
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 20, Iss. 228, (Jan 1, 1953): 21.</ref>

[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "Even with stalwart Margaret Rutherford playing the principal role—that of a good-natured looney—in this utterly slap-happy film, and even with several cheering flashes of tomfoolery to light the way, the whole thing is just a bit too labored—too fatuous—to be continuous fun."<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A00EED7163DE23BBC4F51DFB0668388649EDE&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As |title=Movie Review - Miss Robin Hood - British Film, 'Miss Robin Hood,' With Margaret Rutherford Bows at the Beekman |work=NYTimes.com |date=1953-06-27 |access-date=2014-06-24}}</ref>

Graeme Clark of the website The Spinning Image wrote, "It's all very fluffy and inconsequential, but with Patrick Campbell contributing to the script and this array of talent in front of the camera, vintage Brit comedy fans are well catered for."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4636 |title=Miss Robin Hood Review (1952) |publisher=Thespinningimage.co.uk |access-date=2014-06-24}}</ref>

''Filmink'' said "It has a decent enough central idea... but it doesn’t have enough faith in the idea, so all this other extraneous stuff is added."<ref name="ink">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=John Guillermin: Action Man|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/john-guillermin-action-man/|date=17 November 2020}}</ref>

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0044908|Miss Robin Hood}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|miss-robin-hood}}
*[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83614/Miss-Robin-Hood/ Miss Robin Hood] at [[TCMDB]]
*[https://archive.org/details/missrobinhood Complete film] at [[Internet Archive]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{John Guillermin}}

[[Category:1952 films]]
[[Category:1952 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by John Guillermin]]
[[Category:Robin Hood films]]
[[Category:Robin Hood parodies]]
[[Category:Fictional comics]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Films about comics]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Southall Studios]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]

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