Disney goes on to speak of Syn as if he had actually existed. Walt Disney's introduces the TV episodes claiming that the Scarecrow was " One of the strangest characters who ever lived.a real life Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (!).
The song firmly mythologises the Scarecrow as a wholesome Robin Hood type character (In the TV episodes the Disney studio accommodates Thorndyke's morally dubious Doctor Syn with some special pleading. Thankfully, the two companies were able to agree a compromise, with Peter Cushing playing "Doctor Blyss" in "Night Creatures" a Hammer Film which played up the horrific elements and eliminated the Scarecrow identity, leaving Disney to make a more wholesome version.ĭisney's Doctor Syn has a rousing theme song written by Terry Gilkyson (writer of The Jungle Book's "Bare Necessities") and sung by Thurl Ravenscroft of "Tony the Tiger" fame.
Dr syn series#
The ending of Thorndyke's original novel "Doctor Syn" implid that the story took place a few years before the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), but by the time of "Doctor Syn Returns" Thorndyke had established his character in the 1770's, and this enabled Disney to give the series a more patriotic slant with Dr Syn aiding the beginning of American independence.ĭisney had bought the rights to all Russell Thorndyke's "Dr Syn" novels from his publishers, but had been unaware of the 1936 George Arliss adaptation of the first novel, to which Hammer Films had bought the remake rights. Although the TV episodes were screened in 1964, the film version was released in the UK in December 1963.ĭirected by James Neilson and written by Robert Westerbury, the film was adapted from "Christopher Syn (1960), a curious pastiche credited to American writer William Buchanan and Russell Thorndyke, original creator of Doctor Syn. Disney was obviously attracted by the aspects of Dr Syn which resembled his successful "Zorro" TV series and ignored Syn's past as a pirate to concentrate on the costumed identity of the Scarecrow. The Vicar of Dymchurch has a hidden past as vicious pirate Captain Clegg, and still keeps his hand in under the disguise of "The Scarecrow" leading a band of smugglers who pose as marsh phantoms. Patrick McGoohan played the character first introduced in Russell Thorndyke's 1915 novel "Doctor Syn". Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" (1964) a three part series for Walt Disney‘s Wonderful World of Color NBC TV show.
Dr syn movie#
Syn, Alias the Scarecrow is a 98 minute movie version of "Dr. Starring Patrick McGoohan with Patrick Wymarkĭr.
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