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Alice in Wonderland

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5.5/10 • 33

1949-05-131h 16m

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Lou Bunin's magical merger of live action and puppetry!

This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.

Directors
Dallas Bower, Lou Bunin, Marc Maurette
Editors
Denys de La Patellière

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  1. Stephen Murray

    Stephen Murray

    Lewis Carroll / The Knave of Hearts (voice)

  2. Ernest Milton

    Ernest Milton

    The Vice Chancellor / The White Rabbit (voice)

  3. Pamela Brown

    Pamela Brown

    The Queen of Hearts (voice)

  4. Felix Aylmer

    Felix Aylmer

    Dr. Liddel / The Cheshire Cat (voice)

  5. Joyce Grenfell

    Joyce Grenfell

    Ugly Duchess / Dormouse

  6. Carol Marsh

    Carol Marsh

    Alice

  7. Raymond Bussières

    Raymond Bussières

    The Tailor / The Mad Hatter (voice)

  8. David Reed

    David Reed

    The Prince Consort / The King of Hearts (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Jul 9, 2022

6/10

I think this is the closest thing to a "trip" I've ever experienced on film - at times it's a positively surreal interpretation of Lewis Carroll's nonsense story of "Alice" (Carol Marsh) and her adventures having fallen down the rabbit hole. Unlike the colourful, but much fluffier Disney adaptation that followed in 1951, this is a more sophisticated, clever and intricate hybrid of real life characters married with some basic, but engaging, stop-motion animation as she encounters the "Mad Hatter"; "Cheshire Cat"; 'Ugly Duchess" and, of course, the brutally minded "Queen of Hearts" (voiced here excellently by Pamela Brown). I'm not really a fan of the story, and sadly although an undoubtedly creatively accomplished effort from Dallas Bower and Irving Block, this doesn't really do much to sustain my interest. The pace is suitably frenetic, but Marsh is pretty flat in the title role, and the innovative effects of the production start to war thin quickly leaving us with little better than a semi-animated farce of a film. If you enjoyed the wackiness of Carroll's original book, then you may well get more from this than I did, but I'm afraid it was all just too silly for me, sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
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