Produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures and starring Jon Hall as Robin Hood with stuntwork by Jock Mahoney, the film was shot in the Cinecolor process that features an inability to reproduce the colour green.

[3] After fighting in the Crusades alongside King Richard I of England, Sir Allan Claire is returning home to marry his betrothed Lady Christabel.

[1] AllMovie called the film a "decided B-picture effort" and wrote that its Cinecolor "lacked the glowing luster" of the Technicolor used in the earlier The Bandit of Sherwood Forest; he also noted that the soundtrack was mostly stock music from the Columbia library.

All of these disparate elements may not hold together ideally, but with a running time of scarcely more than an hour and a cast that is trying hard to make it all fun, it's impossible for a picture like this to go far wrong, even if it gets nowhere near to being high art, either".

[7] TV Guide called the film "mainly a kiddie picture" and noted that "of the Merry Men, it is Mowbray as Friar Tuck who steals the show with a performance that borders on slapstick".