The screenplay for the semi-historical, costume melodrama, written by H.M.Harwood, Salka Viertel (an actress-writer, and Garbo""s personal friend and professional colleague), and with dialogue by S.Such impudence must support a mighty appetite.Robin: True enough, your Highness.We Saxons have little to fatten on by the time your tax gatherers are through.The Sheriff asks Robin if he feels the Saxons are overtaxed, to which he honestly replies:Robin: Overtaxed, overworked and paid off with a knife, a club or a rope.She ordered the shut-down of his post-battle clean-up operation, due to Executive Order 396B: "All salvage operations are now under our jurisdiction.But afraid to encourage her and show any emotion, he warns in his typical monotone voice: "Don""t you go gettin"" any ideas, Doll.