Here Comes Robin Hood

Here Comes Robin Hood is a 1949 American animated Technicolor swashbuckler film, produced by Fred Quimby, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, that stars Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin and James Burke, special guest stars William Hanna as Tom and Sara Berner as Jerry. Based upon the series Tom and Jerry by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Story adaptation by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the animated film concerns a Saxon knight who, in King Richard's absence in the Holy Land during the Crusades, fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla band against Prince John and the Norman lords oppressing the Saxon commoners.

Here Comes Robin Hood has been acclaimed by critics since its release. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry Alan Hale, Sr., who plays Little John, had played the same character in the 1922 version of the film and went on to play him again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest, released by Columbia in 1950.

Releases
December 23, 1949