Burbank adapted both of those, as well as 'Kidnapped', and there is a preference for all three of those over this. As a book, 'The Black Arrow' is a pleasant enough read (personally think that it is better than its reputation, which is not high with Stevenson himself being the first critic) but is not among the best work of Robert Louis Stevenson, falling short of the classic status of 'Treasure Island' and 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Burbank's adaptation of 'The Black Arrow' is somewhere in the high middle from personal opinion. Though there are some that have fallen into very good and really quite bad extremes, 'The Wind in the Willows', 'Peter Pan' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' being examples of the former and 'Don Quixote', 'The Odyssey' and 'The Prisoner of Zenda' being examples of the latter. This output is definitely very interesting, but it's a bit of a mixed bag, most ranging between average and good. Throughout the 80s Burbank Films Australia made a number of animated adaptations mostly under an hour of numerous literary classics.
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