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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Release : | 1972 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | Josef Shaftel Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Fiona Fullerton Michael Crawford Robert Helpmann Peter Sellers Spike Milligan |
Genre : | Fantasy Music Family |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Always thought the US critics reviewed this film, feeling the disappointment of not getting the next Mary Poppins, version of Alice, and comparing it to Disneys cartoon as if that was the Original, this follows the Book not the Cartoon - Have to admit as a 17yo when this was released I did fall madly in Love with Alice (Fiona Fullerton) - as I said view it from the Book not Disneys version. At last it has been released from the original masters for too long we had to endure the terrible TV edited version which was always of dubious picture quality.
for all the Lewis Carroll purist who always yowl about how "unfilmable" the 'Alice' books are, this is one of those faithful adaptations that always reminds me of how vacuous that argument always is. yowl all you like you never satisfied puriste. you'll obviously never be satisfied. i grew up on the complete works of Carroll, Snarks and all, and i am more than satisfied with the numerous film and television adaptations that are out there. as a matter of facto, i can't imagine a single literary work that has been as inspiring to the imagination of so many as this book has.this wonderfully faithful, elegant and opulent 1972 film version is one of the most direct and literal adaptations along with the superb Jonny Miller BBC television film and the excellent KCET version with Kate and Dick Burton. along with the other two mentioned this version is so faithful that you really wonder what a so-called "more faithful" version would be like. most of the production design here is based on John Tenniel's famous original illustrations and there is very little dialogue that diverts from the original text. i've found in the past that people who yowl about a better version of 'Alice' are usually talking about some kind of over-produced mega production and have usually not given any of the existing adaptations any thought. the shallow quest for a mega production is the very thing that led everything to the flat and lackluster Tim Burton fiasco in 2011. i sort of liked Tim Burton's mega production, but it was my least favorite of the 'Alice' films and was definitely the least inspired and most brainless. ALL the other films are much better, including a TV animated one by Hanna-Barbera.this 1972 version is widely regarded as the most lavish and faithful adaptation and was also a BAFTA award winner for cinematography (2001's Geoffrey Unsworth) and costume design. it also features a a modest and delightfully tuneful score by 007 composer John Barry. the music score also faithfully brings much of Carroll's poems to music.the only problem i ever have with this version is Michael Jayston playing a virile, potent and somewhat sexy Reverend Dodgson. i mean COME ON! we're talking about the Reverend Dodgson here and not some matinée, cinema heart throb. i've read about and seen pictures of the repressed and uptight Reverend. he twern't no heart throb. he was a ugly little thang. Michael Jayston's portrayal is hardly realistic.aside from that quibble. i love this adaptation dearly. always have since i first saw it as a child in 1972.as for the purist who yowl all the time, keep on yowling like the Duchess's baby, but all that infantile yowling had better not lead to another boring fiasco like the Tim Burton/ Linda Woolverdumb mess up.
1st watched 2/10/2010 - 4 out of 10(Dir-William Sterling): Fair musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book about the young girl mentioned in the title and her adventures. This version is a British live production with a few notable British comedians covered in makeup and costumes so you hardly recognize them(especially Dudley Moore but also including Peter Sellers). There a few songs mostly sung by the lead played by Fiona Fullerton and done well for the most part. The downfall of this version, in my opinion, is the amateurish sets and the costumes are similar to a Saturday morning kids show. The songs are fine but nothing very memorable and we really don't get a feeling that Alice has learned anything when it's all over(I guess I'm not sure if this was the author's intention but we see this in the Disney version). Anyway, the movie just doesn't keep us that interested and it's just OK viewing. It would be interesting to read the book now that I've seen a couple versions filmed to see what was included or dumped in each one. This version is viewable but not much else as I've already said, but I was glad I watched it.
Even the Disney animated version isn't as cheesy, lame or frankly ridiculous as this live action remake, based on the Lewis Carroll tale. You know the basic story, Alice (A View to a Kill's Fiona Fullerton) falls asleep, and dreams chasing the White Rabbit (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em's Michael Crawford) into the bizarre (more son in this version) world of Wonderland, meeting a variety of weird and "wonderful" characters, such as the Dormouse (Dudley Moore), The Caterpillar (Sir Ralph Richardson), Tweedledee (Frank Cox) and Tweedledum (Freddie Cox), the Cheshire Cat (Roy Kinnear), the Mock Turtle (Michael Hordern), the Mad Hatter (Robert Helpmann) and March Hare (Peter Sellers), the Gryphon (Spike Milligan), and Queen (Flora Robson) and King (Dennis Price) of Hearts. I don't know if it is the film itself that is ridiculous, or the fact that so many well known TV and film stars are making complete idiots of themselves, and as for the songs, they don't help, oh, Fullerton talks to herself too much. It won the BAFTAs for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, both wrong choices. It was number 63 on The 100 Greatest Family Films. Pretty poor!