A Thousand and One Nights (1968)

Original title: La Esclava del Paraíso

Arabian fantasy. Spain/Italy. Starring Jeff Cooper, Raf Vallone, Perla Cristal, Charly Bravo & Paul Naschy. Directed by José María Elorrieta.

Worldwide Video (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Robin Hood, Arrows, Beans and Karate (1976)

Original title: Storia di Arcieri, Pugni e Occhi Neri

Robin Hood/Comedy. Italy/Spain. Starring Alan Steel, Cris Huerta, Victoria Abril & Charly Bravo. Directed by Tonino Ricci.

VTC (Sweden). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Alan Steel is the overaged Robin Hood in this incredibly daft slapstick adventure, yet another opportunistic cheapie by hack director Ricci. I was expecting the worst but ended up liking this film quite a bit, albeit purely as entertaining trash: just turn off your brain and enjoy the zany humour, kung fu (!) and Steel's wretched performance! Just call me an idiot. 3/5

A Thousand and One Nights (1968)

Original title: La Esclava del Paraíso.

Arabian fantasy. Spain/Italy. Starring Jeff Cooper, Raf Vallone, Perla Cristal, Charly Bravo & Paul Naschy. Directed by José María Elorrieta.

Quality Home Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Robin Hood Never Dies (1975)

Original title: Robin Hood Nunca Muere

Robin Hood adventure. Spain. Starring Charly Bravo & Emma Cohen. Directed by Francesc Bellmunt.

Mariann Video (Sweden). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Strange and dark (for a boys' adventure) spanish Robin Hood film in which Robin stays dead for the first half of the movie (!) but is reanimated (!!) in the second part. Lot's of crazyness courtesy of Charly Bravo: he laughs more like a madman than a cheerful adventure hero! For some reason it has lots of "Wickerman-ish" song numbers. I also suspect some hidden critisism of the Franco regime might have been intended by the makers. Not what many would call a good movie, but I liked it, it has its charm. 3/5