This is an entertaining yarn,with glittering colors and an attractive leading lady in the shape of Barbara Hale ....but much inferior to Maurice Tourneur's 1922 silent film .
The plot was simplified and too much time is given over to fighting and the waterfall is used till one can't take any more ;the kidnapping of Lorna is not shown ,she's already in the Doone Lair when the action begins. Besides ,the Doone are no longer considered highwaymen but landowners who bleed the poor peasants white with their taxes ,unbeknownst to the king :the plot sometimes looks like something which was taken by force from Robin Hood; to make the marriage "acceptable" ,the king goes as far as to knight Rigg! So there won't be any sacrifice for Lorna.Even her wedding is given a conventional treatment which eliminates all the poetry of her line "I take thee ...John " and of love which opens the gates of death.
Karlson is better at westerns such as "gunman's walk" .
The plot was simplified and too much time is given over to fighting and the waterfall is used till one can't take any more ;the kidnapping of Lorna is not shown ,she's already in the Doone Lair when the action begins. Besides ,the Doone are no longer considered highwaymen but landowners who bleed the poor peasants white with their taxes ,unbeknownst to the king :the plot sometimes looks like something which was taken by force from Robin Hood; to make the marriage "acceptable" ,the king goes as far as to knight Rigg! So there won't be any sacrifice for Lorna.Even her wedding is given a conventional treatment which eliminates all the poetry of her line "I take thee ...John " and of love which opens the gates of death.
Karlson is better at westerns such as "gunman's walk" .