Frank Sinatra produced "Robin and the Seven Hoods" as a vehicle for himself and his Rat Pack and it's an amiable enough affair, (there are a few very good musical numbers including the great "My Kind of Town" but one song advocating the glories of the gun would be unlikely to make the cut today). As you can guess from the title it transposes the Robin Hood legend to prohibition-era Chicago with Frank as Robin Hood, Dean Martin as Little John, Barbara Rush as Maid Marian etc but it's Peter Falk's Guy Gisbourne and Bing Crosby as a character called Alan A Dale who walk off with the picture, As Sinatra's trusty black sidekick Sammy Davis Jr does a bit of Stepin Fetchit schtick that you might find offensive.a
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