This is the only script Clare Thorne has ever written. So she must have been a front for a blacklisted American writer.
Although made in 1957. It's political angle makes it relevant even today as it deals with people escaping persecution and travelling on boats seeking asylum.
Joseph of Cordoba is travelling with his daughter Esther with a bagful money. It will be used as payment to the boat captain who has bought over Jewish refugees.
Joseph needs to get to the meeting point in time but he has suffered an injury. Robin and Little John take his place.
Opposition comes in the form of Malbete. A rabble rouser who opposes foreigners. He also has his greedy eyes on the York treasure. The payment to the boat's captain.
Even the Sheriff of Nottingham has a liberal attitude of foreigners. They work hard and pay their taxes. Maltby persuades the Sheriff to be in on the plan to steal the York treasure.
You have to hand it to the writer. What was in effect a metaphor of what went on in central Europe in the 1930s is still applicable today.
Although made in 1957. It's political angle makes it relevant even today as it deals with people escaping persecution and travelling on boats seeking asylum.
Joseph of Cordoba is travelling with his daughter Esther with a bagful money. It will be used as payment to the boat captain who has bought over Jewish refugees.
Joseph needs to get to the meeting point in time but he has suffered an injury. Robin and Little John take his place.
Opposition comes in the form of Malbete. A rabble rouser who opposes foreigners. He also has his greedy eyes on the York treasure. The payment to the boat's captain.
Even the Sheriff of Nottingham has a liberal attitude of foreigners. They work hard and pay their taxes. Maltby persuades the Sheriff to be in on the plan to steal the York treasure.
You have to hand it to the writer. What was in effect a metaphor of what went on in central Europe in the 1930s is still applicable today.
