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Their romance continues in this fashion, moving from barbed banter to admissions of continued affection. Marian tells Robin her confessions were "the envy of the convent," then reminds him with a pretty sulk, "You never wrote." Says Robin, "I don't know how." Seeing Marian, being back in Sherwood, rekindles Robin's spirits. Age and old scars are forgotten, save in times of extreme stress-as in a sword fight on the castle walls of Nottingham. It is just the sort of escapade that Marian was hoping Robin would abandon...
...Robin and Marian is a film that must stand or fall on the strength of its stars. Fortunately, it has two of the best. Connery is a genuine masculine presence, not afraid to be tender. He also has a real zest for buffoonery that flourishes under Lester's considerable encouragement. Audrey Hepburn has not made a movie in seven years. The moment she appears on screen is startling, not for her thorough, gentle command, not even for her beauty, which seems heightened, renewed. It is rather that we are reminded of how long it has been since an actress...
...Dotti, a handsome Italian psychiatrist nine years her junior. She moved to Rome and dropped out of the movies. The scripts continued to arrive-and be rejected-until, attracted by the challenge of playing the part of a woman who, like herself, is 46, she agreed to star in Robin and Marian. Last summer she arrived on location in Spain with a retinue consisting of her personal hairdresser, makeup woman, and chaperone, and with a bad case of "stomachaches and clammy hands, because after all those years I didn't know what to expect...
Another of Hepburn's mishaps became a scene in the picture. She was driving a cart beside a stream. The horse refused to stop and toppled into 6 ft. of muddy water. Lester kept the cameras rolling. Then he wrote a scene in which Robin fishes Marian out and carries her lovingly to the bank...
Aiming for greater realism, Lester kept cutting down on the love story between Robin and Marian, and Hepburn fought to retain some of her best romantic lines with Connery. Says she: "With all those men, I was the one who had to defend the romance in the picture. Somebody had to take care of Marian...