| DVD Information |  | Robin and the Seven Hoods | | Sinatra, Frank | | Martin, Dean | | UPC: 085392149322 | | Comedy : General | | Amazon.com
My kind of town, Chicago is.... The last film venture by the Rat Pack finds Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. in an update of the Robin Hood legend, set in Chi-town in 1928. The boys play gangsters who become Jazz Age Merry Men; Bing Crosby is their eloquent spokesman. As usual, women are in short supply within the featured cast, but the film is colorful enough anyway with its period trappings. By the time this movie was released in 1964, the Zeitgeist was already shifting toward the Beatles, and Frank, Dean, and Sammy looked like your father's entertainment. But while this film is no knockout, director Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) makes it a pleasant enough way to say good-bye to the Rat Pack's life together on film. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
From the Back Cover
Robin and the 7 Hoods mirthfully gives the Robin Hood legend a Depression-era, mobtown Chicago setting. There, North Side boss Robbo (Frank Sinatra) hopes to get a leg up in his power struggle with rival racketeer Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk). Robbo sets himself up as a latter-day Robin Hood with philanthropic fronts enabling him to scam the rich, take his cut, and then give to the poor.
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, and Barbara Rush join in the giddy, gangsterish fun. And the... read more | | | | Products related to "Robin and the Seven Hoods" from Amazon.com | |
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