Hope everyone had a nice holiday, and that the transition back to everyday life is a smooth one.
Above is my Roy Rogers cap pistol, a gift from my lovely wife. I’ve wanted a genuine RR shooting iron since I was a kid, and have a suspicion it won’t be my last. It’s surrounded by cowboys from a cool little set Santa brought my daughter.
Over the holiday, we managed to sneak in Trail Of Robin Hood (1950). It’s just as wonderful as I remembered.
Hoping to make the most of the span between Christmas and New Year’s — and get some real writin’ done. But it’s hard to type when one hand’s busy twirling this pistol!
That’s delightful! Happy New Year!
Best wishes,
Laura
I watched Trail of Robin Hood (the edited version for TV version, on RFD-TV) too! Definitely the perfect Christmas cowboy movie. But I think I’m missing something. Is there a line in there about Robin Hood? The title always has me scratching my head. I must be missing something.
Watching these old edited version of Roy Rogers movies is really frustrating especially after seeing three of the four restored RR movies at the TCM festival last April. I can’t tell you how gorgeous they looked on the big screen and what a pleasure it was to see them complete. They made a lot more sense and scenes flowed smoothly.
Republic assigned titles more or less at random, so there’s nothing remotely Robin Hood-y in it at all.
If it had a Christmas-y title, I think it’d be a holiday staple for more people than just the type who read this blog.
The concept of Robin Hood in this film had to do with Jack Holt making sure that every child could have a Christmas tree. The heavies are trying to take over his trees. Although many critics lampooned the idea of rustling Christmas trees rather than cattle, the film came at an appropriate time, right before Christmas. It was usually shown as a special feature, along with plenty of cartoons and a chapter of a Republic serial. Laugh as you may, the final chase scene where the wagons are trying to get over a flaming bridge, with Roy, Trigger, and Bullet fighting the bad guns is pure Witney fantasy.