1952 - Miss Robin Hood

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Title	Miss Robin Hood
Year	1952
Type	Feature
Country	UK
Company	Group 3
Episodes	1
Duration	72 min.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-10-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-10-21.

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Plot

Henry Wrigley is asleep, dreaming about a woman and two girls burgling a stockbrokers, opening their safe with a welder, and intending to spend the loot on helping orphans, feeding pigeons and constructing playgrounds. In real life he is the writer of "Miss Robin Hood", a serial published in a magazine named The Teenager. He is contacted by a fan who wants an autograph. She turns out to be Miss Heather Honey, an eccentric woman at the opposite end of her lifespan from the core readership of The Teenager. In addition to an autograph from her favourite writer she wants Wrigley to accompany her to MacAlister Honeycup distillers to watch its owner make a secret essence that is mixed into the whiskey. The secret formula was stolen from Miss Honey's great-grandfather back in 1832 by an ancestor of the present owner of the distillery. Now Miss Honey wants Mr Wrigley, who as a writer of stories about a female Robin Hood must be an expert in such matters, to help her steal back the secret recipe from MacAlister. The reluctant Mr Wrigley is persuaded to take part in the caper, and they steal the recipe and a large amount of cash. The loot is in Mr Wrigley's keeping as Miss Honey – in the film a real-life Miss Robin Hood – is under close police surveillance. A police officer saw Mr Wrigley up close while they were escaping from the crime scene in a car driven by Miss Heather Honey 'Robin Hood's' cockney-speaking driver – who can be quite menacing when he is not knitting – so Mr Wrigley now also finds himself the object of unwanted attention from the rather ineffcicient police. He and Miss Honey discover that the secret essence, drunk without being diluted by whiskey has a drastic effect, the dose resulting in the normally downbeat but now exuberant and assertive Mr Wrigley cheerfully quitting his job at the offices of The Teenager. Honey and Wrigley write an anonymous letter to Mr MacAlister, telling him he must comply with their terms unless he wishes to see the precious recipe sold to a competing firm. However, constanntly harassed by the police, the two decide to return the stolen money and recipe to Mr MacAllister's safe. While doing so, they are caught by MacAllister, who gloats at the prospect of their going to prison for their crime, only to learn that they still have a copy of the recipe and mean to sell it to the competing firm unless MacAllister agrees to turn over half his annual profits to Heather Honey. He gives in to their demands and is even obliged to settle the matter with the police so that the pair go free. Meanwhile the writer who took over from Mr Wrigley shocks his readers by making Miss Robin Hood assist in solving the theft of a Picasso. Everybody is horrified at the thought of Miss Hood being made to 'go over to the other side'. Mr Wrigley is despondent at being out of a job. Apparently Heather Honey is not sharing her half of the annual bribe from MacAlister with him, though this is never made clear. Lord Otterbourne, Wrigley's boss at the publishing company, is desperate to have him back as writer, and Wrigley of course accepts the offer. In the dying seconds of the film it turns out everything was just a continuation of the dream with which the film opened.

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