Editing Robin Hood (section)

===20th century onwards===
[[File:Robin Hood Memorial.jpg|thumb|Statue of Robin Hood near [[Nottingham Castle]] by [[James Woodford]], 1951]]

The 20th century grafted still further details on to the original legends. The 1938 film ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', starring [[Errol Flynn]] and [[Olivia de Havilland]], portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son (invented for that purpose) rather than compete with the image of this one.<ref name="Wolfshead Ages">Allen W. Wright, "[http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robages/robages9.html Wolfshead through the Ages Films and Fantasy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202223443/http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robages/robages9.html |date=2 February 2007 }}"</ref>

[[File:Robin Hood - geograph.org.uk - 4166787.jpg|thumb|Statue of Robin Hood in [[Sherwood Forest]]]]

In 1953, during the [[McCarthy era]], a Republican member of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood from all Indiana school books for its alleged [[communist]] connotations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eschner |first1=Kat |title=Students Allied Themselves With Robin Hood During This Anti-McCarthyism Movement |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/students-allied-themselves-robin-hood-during-1950s-anti-mccarthyism-movement-180967156/ |access-date=18 December 2019 |work=Smithsonian.com |date=13 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218063155/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/students-allied-themselves-robin-hood-during-1950s-anti-mccarthyism-movement-180967156/ |archive-date=18 December 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> This proposal prompted a short-lived college protest against [[McCarthyism]] and [[book censorship in the United States]] that was launched on the [[Indiana University Bloomington]] campus and within a course of weeks had grown into a nationwide campus movement, known as the [[Green Feather Movement]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/the-green-feather-movement-papers.pdf |title=The Green Feather Movement Papers, 1953–1954, 2005 |date=16 April 2014 |editor-last= Clark |editor-first=Kathleen&nbsp;S.|publisher=[[Indiana Historical Society]] |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref>