A vicar by day, masked vigilante by night—Disney's OG Batman with better hats.
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced for his Wonderful World of Color weekly TV show and aired February 1964. Filled with action, drama and suspense, it follows the adventures of Dr. Christopher Syn - brave priest by day, righter of wrongs by night. And, for the first time, presented in Widescreen format on DVD.
Acting
Patrick McGoohan's smoldering double life.
Production
Creepy-awesome Scarecrow costume design.
Score
That earworm theme song will haunt you.
Director
James Neilson
Patrick McGoohan
Dr. Christopher Syn / The Scarecrow (archive footage)
George Cole
Mr. Sexton Mipps / Hellspite (archive footage)
Tony Britton
Simon Bates (archive footage)
Michael Hordern
Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage)
Geoffrey Keen
General Pugh (archive footage)
Kay Walsh
Mrs. Waggett (archive footage)
Eric Pohlmann
King George III (archive footage)
Patrick Wymark
Joseph Ransley (archive footage)
Alan Dobie
Mr. Frank Fragg - Prosecutor (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dr. Syn predates Batman by decades—Bob Kane might've been taking notes from Romney Marsh.
Patrick McGoohan filmed this between Danger Man and The Prisoner; you can see him cooking up Number Six's paranoia.
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