Whoa, I post a lot these days don't I ?

[tilly_stratford]

Hey, I didn't know a tiny little clip of the BBC's 1953 live production of Robin Hood existed.

A production, truth be told, I find completely uninteresting save for the fact that one Patrick Troughton played the lead role. Doesn't that blow your mind? Stocky little Pat Troughton running around in tights being Robin Hood

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[fyrdrakken]

I'm fairly sure I've seen The Sword in the Stone at least once or twice, but never The Jungle Book. Though I've read the books both of them were based on, many times over -- The Sword in the Stone book at least included at the end when the sword-pulling was going on that Wart was remembering the various lessons he'd learned by way of Merlin's shapeshifting and in fact was surrounded by a horde of the animals he'd met (or visions of them, anyway) all cheering him on. Also the book has Wart and Kay meeting Robin Hood and going along with him to rescue Wart's dog from the queen of the fairies.

[tilly_stratford]

Hey, that makes more sense in any case.

Also the book has Wart and Kay meeting Robin Hood and going along with him to rescue Wart's dog from the queen of the fairies.

Wait, what? Why on earth wouldn't they include something like that in the movie?

[fyrdrakken]

It wasn't really the kind of incident that would transfer well to film -- the dog and the people standing near him disappeared in a flash, the boys meet up with the Merry Men and that night everyone sneaks up to Morgan le Fay's castle, the boys sneak in and correctly identify their missing on the shelf of knickknacks into which abductees have been transformed, and they drive off Morgan by threatening to touch her with their cold iron knives. And then the entire group shoots a bunch of dragons and wyverns guarding her castle on the way out and that's the end of it. I can see why it was one of the bits that got cut from the film.