Robin Hood nunca muere (1975) Poster

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Average Spanish Robin Hood with thrills , duels , battles , betrayals and castle assault
ma-cortes4 May 2021
Mediocre but passable lowbrow Robin Hood movie with amusement and entertainment enough . As it is starred by Robin Hood and his Merry Men and at the beginning being attacked by their enemies . As an injured Robin Hood : Charly Bravo flees and he get escaped from his heinous pursuers while his partners are hanged . Later on , Robin feigns his death by burying himself into a coffin , but, of course , he goes back to life . After that , Robin Hood joins his underlings : Fernando Rubio as Friar Tuck , Luis Induni as Giant , Joaquín Blanco as Big John , Manuel Muñoz, all of them unite forces to battle the villianous sheriff of Notthingham : Gaspar Indio González .

Amusing and entertaining Robin Hood movie with lots of adventures , brawls , feats , laughters , and a large number of fights with no much sense . There are some familiar faces as Charly Bravo , Luis Induni , Gastar Indio González , José Lifante , some of them working in Paella or Spaghetti Westerns of the Sixties and Seventies . Furthemore , look for prestigious director Agustín Villaronga and special appearance by a very young Emma Cohen . Fun but disconcerting Robin Hood movie that nothing to do with the classic Canon, neither the vintage film by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn . This Robin Hood Nunca Muere 1975 is a simple and plain adventure with action , assaults on a castle , fights , attacks and the ordinary arrows throwing . There are also some fight scenes in Terence Hill and Bud Spencer style that at the time achieved too much success with their peculiar films , and in Robin Hood Nunca Muere or Robin Hood never dies 1975 were usually performed by the fatty Fray Tuck/ Fernando Rubio by delivering slaps , punches and kick-ass against enemies . The flick is set during the thunderous Kingdom of John without Land , governing the nasty Normands that humiliate, exploit and mistreat the Saxon population. The pic ignores the wealthness of the actual history of Robin Hood and it turns into another adventure/action movie with no historical perspective, resulting in a cheap production with no much sense that doesn't delivers what it should .

It contains an atmospheric cinematography by Tomás Pladevell shot on location in Barcelona outdoors , Foix and river Tordesa . Special mention for the medieval soundtrack composed by professional musicians by means of medieval musical instruments. Being produced in low budget by Ricardo Muñoz Suay and J. A. Pérez Giner from Profilmes considered to be the Spanish Hammer Films . The motion picture was regularly directed by Frances Bellmunt in his film debut , though he had made shorts and documentary . Subsequently , he directed a lot of movies , getting successes and flops . Filmmaking all kinds of genres and outstanding the following ones : The Orgy , Complot of the Rings , Quinta Del Porro , Batalla Del Porro, Gracias Por Propina , Un Par de Huevos , Pan De Angel , Monturiol , Lisistrata , among others. Rating : 5/10 , regular but passable as well as acceptable , at times, Robin Hood movie and only for no very demanding people .
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6/10
The Robin Hood legend as a allegory against fascism
Leofwine_draca2 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Here's an offbeat, violent, Spanish version of the classic tale with all the characters and locations present - with the exception of Little John, who has now been renamed simply "Giant". The film is offbeat in that it doesn't offer up the usual adventure staples, like lots of swashbuckling action a la Errol Flynn, dangerous escapes and romance. Instead this is a dark and brooding story with only a smattering of comedy and plenty of horrific deaths and situations. It's been suggested that this is an allegory of Franco's fascist regime at the time in Spain and indeed the film-makers do seem to be putting across a dark moral message with the authority figures depicted as cruel, merciless brutes (the sheriff in particular is an overweight, lazy and violent brute who brutally stabs a man in the chest after being freed from his cell by him).

The entirely Spanish cast is made up of unknowns (at least outside of their native country), with the exception of the bizarrely-named Charly Bravo - whose name seems to pop up in a lot of Spanish and European productions, and the minor appearance of Jose Luis Lifante (LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE) as an evil abbott, who has no speech. The dubbing, however, is better than usual and the acting above average for the genre. The setting is an atmospheric one, enhanced by occasional bursts of period music which really help to set the scene. The only flaw I can see is in the poor lighting; seeing as most of the film takes place in the dark, this makes for an eye-straining experience.

Being a Spanish film you come to expect odd out-of-place moments and ROBIN HOOD NEVER DIES has plenty of such scenes. There's a corpse which laughs in its coffin and springs to life, and a man who dresses up as a medieval dragon and chases after a guard spitting sparks and flames! In no other Robin Hood films are there scenes like the macabre sight of the bodies of the Merry Men hanging from tree branches in a wooded clearing. The finale, which involves the storming of the sheriff's castle, is mildly exciting if again a little too dark, and the conclusion is open-ended for a sequel which never came. Indeed this entire film feels just like one episode in a long-running saga and stands alone as one of the oddest Robin Hood films out there. As such, it is recommended by myself, but only to the genre fan with a real dedication for tracking down rare films as this is one of the hardest to find.
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