 (The 7th Level) | Sheriff
of Nottingham (1973)
Animal
Outfit: Red pink pantaloons / Red bobkin Tagline: "A family that pays together stays together!" Plot summary: The Sheriff of Nottingham (wonderfully
voiced by the late Pat Buttram) is a fat, bumbling buffoon who abuses his
power to sap the people of Nottingham dry. He's also an inexcusably greedy
individual with a sense of thievery so strong that he can hear the
jingling of one lone coin in a badger's pocket from half a mile away. When
not gallivanting down dirt roads singing and shaking his money bag in
abundant glee or taking farthings from little boy rabbits on their
birthday, he spends his time getting his ass kicked by Robin Hood and his
sidekick Overly confident and extremely obese, the Sheriff was forced into retirement after the return of King Richard, but also in no small amount due to his poor henchmen hiring decisions. When a middle-aged Irish sage hen can solidly trounce an entire platoon of charging rhinos, you know that somewhere there's a rusty cog in the machine. (more) User Comments: This sheriff, though voiced by Buttram, reminds me in spirit of Taggert, the numb-nutted henchman of the evil Hedley Lamar in Blazing Saddles (even though Robin Hood predates Saddles by a year... and was also one of the top money making films of 1973, I might add for no reason.) Every time he and Nutsy were on screen together, I kept waiting for him to order the brain dead buzzard to "go get a couple of coons" to search for quick sand. User Rating:
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