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Alice in Wonderland

- 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.

Release Date : 1949-05-13

Language :EnglishFrench

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : The Rank OrganisationLou Bunin ProductionsUGC Films

Production Country : FranceUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Stephen Murray

Character Name : Lewis Carroll / The Knave of Hearts (voice)

Original Name : Stephen Murray

Gender : Male

Ernest Milton

Character Name : The Vice Chancellor / The White Rabbit (voice)

Original Name : Ernest Milton

Gender : Male

Pamela Brown

Character Name : The Queen of Hearts (voice)

Original Name : Pamela Brown

Gender : Female

Felix Aylmer

Character Name : Dr. Liddel / The Cheshire Cat (voice)

Original Name : Felix Aylmer

Gender : Male

Joyce Grenfell

Character Name : Ugly Duchess / Dormouse

Original Name : Joyce Grenfell

Gender : Female

Carol Marsh

Character Name : Alice

Original Name : Carol Marsh

Gender : Female

Raymond Bussières

Character Name : The Tailor / The Mad Hatter (voice)

Original Name : Raymond Bussières

Gender : Male

David Reed

Character Name : The Prince Consort / The King of Hearts (voice)

Original Name : David Reed

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-09

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.