Robin and the 7 Hoods

I saw this when it came out. I was working as a cinema projectionist and I loved the film and the music, I was about 15 or 16 at the time. I couldn't remember it's name, then just before Christmas, I was browsing this type of film on Amazon and stumbled on it. My wife bought it for me a s a persent. We both enjoyed it a lot. It's a good time film and doesn't take itself too seriously. It has (to me) aged very well, Worth buying, I'll watch it many times now. Gordon

Great film

A classic film from the rat rack era with sinatra, martin, davis Jr. Some good songs, including Chicago my kind of town. Fun and light hearted I rented it off Prime, good quality sound and vision..

This is not your typical Robin Hood, even though we have the names of the mythical legends they are set up as mobsters from Chicago with Marion not typical maiden as she is a crime bosses daughter just as ruthless as her dad who was killed by Colombo himself Peter Falk as Guy of Gisburn. Frank Sinatra is Robbo Hood who with his pals Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Bing Crosby who play the not so merry men we know with bows and arrows but pack a rod as they say to steal from the rich and give to the poor. There are some fun little musical numbers and most notably one of the songs that Sinatra would sing up til his passing My Kind of Town and Mr Booze sang by Bing Crosby but was used in a family guy episode with Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog. If a fan of musical films from golden age of Hollywood this is for you, don't expect the usual Robin Hood tale as this is a different take but a fun watch.

I got this film to tick off another E.G.Robinson film, he has a brief bit at the start. The film is a 'rat-pack' musical update of Robin Hood to prohibition era Chicago. With 2 rival gangs one headed by F.Sinatra the other by P.Falk who in my opinion is the only actor who gives a fun performance. It also has B.Crosby who is let down by the poor songs, as per the commentary they took 9 months to write the dozen plus original songs, one of which is an all time classic 'My Kind of Town (Chicago is) the others are all confined to the forgotten dustbin of history. Overall though it's a decent fun warch. My main reason for bothering to write this is to point out errors & omissions on the UK Warner Bros DVD release the packaging states it's 101 min' ratio 1:85 nonsense!! it's correctly presented at 118 min' (PAL) & 2.35 ratio. There is also a full length commentary by F.Sinatra Jr who explains how the filming was beset by problems including the assassination of JFK, and his own kidnapping, Frank Sr having taken over as producer from G.Kelly 3 weeks before filming commenced.

Fantastic movie

Very little can be said about this fantastic musical twist on the Robin Hood story set in the Chicago of gangsters. Frank Sinatra,Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and Bing Crosby all excel in this light hearted Christmas musical and are superbly supported by Peter Falk displaying his often unrecognised talent for comedy, Barbara Rush and Victor Buono. This is one of my favourite Rat Pack movies with a fantastic score and the bonus of Sammy Davies performing his party piece with his guns and a superb production number with Frank, Dean and Bing in "Got or you haven't got style." CAUTION: This is the Region 1 UNCUT version. I also bought the Region 2 recent release which has been cut by a massive 20 minutes although the Spanish release is the full length !!!!!! A must for any musical movie collection

very good movie to cheer you up lots of laughs