NARROW ESCAPES.
Basil Rathbone, pre-eminent movie "meanie," didn't join the Warner Bros.' "Adventures of Robin Hood" company on location at Chico, California, U.S.A.. until he had made certain that all his insurance polices were in order. For Rathbone was in for a tough session in the technicolour production as Sir Guy of Gisbourne, who had to do a lot of battling with Robin Hood and to lose every encounter. Here are some of the things that happen to Rathbone during the course of his "villainy" in the picture:—He is knocked down by an arrow and only saved because of his armour. He is knocked from his horse while wearing full armour in a jousting match with Robin Hood. And finally, he fights a terrific duel with Errol Flynn, who plays Robin in the picture, and is laid low by a crack over the skull with a broadsword. As a veteran villain, however, Rathbone refused to be worried at the prospect of the punishment he was scheduled to take. The worst thing that happened to him was a very slight sword wound in the foot.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 14
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