Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rogues of Sherwood Forest is a 1950 Technicolor Columbia Pictures film directed by Gordon Douglas and featuring John Derek (future husband of Bo Derek) as Robin the Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, Diana Lynn as Lady Marianne, and the late Alan Hale, Sr. in his third movie as Little John over a 28-year span; he'd played the part opposite Douglas Fairbanks in 1922 and Errol Flynn in 1938, possibly the longest period over which any film actor played the same major role. It was also Hale's final film. The film was written by Ralph Gilbert Bettison and George Bruce.In its view on history, evil King John resumes his old ways after the death of Richard the Lionheart with the plan to keep his power by importing Continental mercenaries and paying them through oppressive taxation.