---
title: 'The Prince of Thieves (1948)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Howard Bretherton'
released: '1948-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 70
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-prince-of-thieves-1948'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040710/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Prince of Thieves (1948)

1948 · 70 min · Drama, Action, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

The Prince of Thieves is a 1948 American adventure film nominally inspired by Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel Le Prince des voleurs. 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. Sequences were shot reusing several of the sets of Columbia's The Bandit of Sherwood Forest and at Corriganville. Patricia Morison and Adele Jergens co-star.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Howard Bretherton](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-bretherton)
- **Screenplay:** [Charles Schnee](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-schnee), [Maurice Tombragel](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-tombragel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mischa Bakaleinikoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/mischa-bakaleinikoff)

## Cast

- [Jon Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-hall) as Robin Hood
- [Adele Jergens](https://cinepixo.com/people/adele-jergens)
- [Walter Sande](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-sande)
- [Syd Saylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/syd-saylor)
- [Alan Mowbray](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-mowbray)
- [Lowell Gilmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/lowell-gilmore)
- [H. B. Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-b-warner)
- [Patricia Morison](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-morison) as Maid Marian

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