![]() ![]() Nothing about this audiobook is going to nail your hair to the wall. While I have no real complaints with the presentation, it's not elevating the art, either. More in-depth than an online article or encyclopedia entry, but not so in-the-weeds that it becomes dull or alienating. Very accessible but also very matter-of-fact with an authoritative tone. Insights into Robin Hood as a possible/probable real person, exploration of the character over hundreds of years of pop-culture, and examination of Robin Hood's supporting cast (both real and fiction.) This audiobook offered the exact level of depth that I needed, as a casual fan of the character. You need to book ahead, and you’ll find the tour entrance at 3400 West Riverside Drive in Burbank.I was promised the true history behind the legend, and that's exactly what I got. This tour, unlike the Universal Studios theme park, is the real thing – a small-scale guided tour around the surprisingly unchanged and low-tech lot where Jack Warner kept his stars on a short leash and his movies on a tight budget. If you take the Warner Bros VIP Studio Tour (and I recommend it), you might be lucky enough to see chandeliers from the production (along with other treasures such as the lamps from ‘Rick’s Bar’ in Casablanca). The streets of ‘Nottingham’ are the ‘Dijon Street’ on the Warners’ Burbank backlot, and the interiors filmed here too. The area is now a golf course and housing development south of Ventura Freeway on the road toward Westlake. The lower part of ‘Nottingham Castle’ (its upper reaches are a matte painting) was built on the old Warners’ Calabasas Ranch. The name is no coincidence, it comes from the use as a location in the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film of Robin Hood, but it also stood in for the 'African' jungle for Tarzan And His Mate in 1934. This Sherwood Forest can be found about fifteen miles west of Los Angeles, south of Westlake Village on Potrero Road just off Highway 101 near the Santa Monica Mountains. Additional shots for this scene were filmed at the Midwick Country Club.Įxtra shots for the attack on the treasure caravan were filmed in the Sherwood Lake and Sherwood Forest area. The gardens, another popular film location, seen also in Citizen Kane, have long since gone the way of many great landmarks of Los Angeles. The archery tournament, where a too-cocky Hood gets arrested, was filmed in the old Busch Gardens, Pasadena. 92 feet tall, 149 feet across its branches and named after, not a Santa Monica Boulevard nightworker, but British naturalist Sir Joseph Hooker.īidwell Park was also used for some exterior shots in Gone With The Wind.Ĭhico is on the Seattle-Sacramento railway line, and also on the north-south Greyhound route. ‘Robin Hood’s camp’ itself – site of the huge banquet following the treasure raid, when Maid Marian ( Olivia de Havilland) begins to thaw out – was about a mile from the park entrance, around Hooker – called ‘Gallows Oak’ in the film – the world’s largest oak tree. It’s at Big Chico Creek, running through Chico Canyon in the park, Hood challenges Little John to a longstaff fight and later, in the creek, duels with Friar Tuck. ![]() Here is the spot where Hood’s men stage the raid on the treasure caravan of Sir Guy of Gisbourne ( Basil Rathbone). Not to mention the Plaster of Paris trees and rocks imported by art director Carl Jules Weyl, the telephone poles festooned with foliage, and the real grass replaced with artificial turf to cut down the fire risk.Ĭhico, 30 miles east of I-5 and halfway between Sacramento and Redding, Northern California, is actually built around the ten-mile-long park, which was donated by the widow of city founder William Bidwell. ‘Sherwood Forest’ is Bidwell Park, with its authentic oaks and sycamores. Set in Merrie Olde England, the film was made, naturally, in California. It proved enormously expensive because of, apart from the sets, the spanking new Technicolor system used. Now regarded as a classic film, this colourful Errol Flynn romp cost $1.9 million yet surprisingly recouped only $1.5 million at the box office. ![]()
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