Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar earlier version, Robin Hood good-humoredly refuses further combat; in both earlier and later versions Robin invites him to join the band. Howard Pyle used this tale in his "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" as part of the tale of Alan-a-Dale: Robin needed a priest who would perform the wedding ceremony in defiance of authority, and Will Scarlet proposed Friar Tuck. The Percy Folio version of the ballad begins with the stanza: Robert Graves in his "English and Scottish Ballads" used this stanza to support his argument for pagan survivals in the Robin Hood legend, and for the popular survival
The Arrows of Robin Hood version was released in the cinemas. Four of Vysotsky's songs were later used in 1982 film "The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe" also directed by Tarasov, set in the same time and place and using some of the same characters. In the 1990s the film was successfully re-released with the 1975 soundtrack. The DVDs also have the 1975 soundtrack. The Arrows of Robin Hood The Arrows of Robin Hood (, "Strely Robin Guda", alternative translations "Robin Good's Arrows", "Robin Gud's Arrows") is a Soviet 1975 film about Robin Hood directed by Sergei Tarasov. Two soundtracks exist for the film.