Robin Hood Through the Ages

Robin Hood, 1922
The legend of the swashbuckling hero got a reset in 1825, when Sir Walter Scott published his epic Ivanhoe. In the book, the hero is known as Robin of Locksley and is first among archers, able to split arrows. By the late 1800s, Robin Hood had become known as a hero of the peasants. Stories depicted him as a noble bandit who robbed the rich to give to the poor. The 1922 movie Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., above, was one of the first films made about the hero of Sherwood Forest. One of the era's most expensive productions at nearly $1 million, Robin Hood was the first film to have a Hollywood premiere.

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