An American Disney animation directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi and James Algar, starring Eric Blore and J. Pat O'Malley, Basil Rathbone and Bing Crosby.
A section of The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame 1908) shows Toad getting into and out of his car trouble. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving 1820) is shown.
This is alright I guess. The only reason for me to watch it is the Sleepy Hollow section. I read The Wind in the Willows and it was much longer and better than this. The animation takes a few pages of the plot and uses destructive license to change almost everything. Ichabod is a little more entertaining and complete. The plot includes lots of the original, as opposed to a little bit. My old drummer used to call my Adam's Apple an "Ichabod" because mine looks like the animated character's. My favorite part is the song that Brom Bones sings at the party and the short scene afterward of Ichabod being afraid. Somehow I knew this was not by Wolfgang Reitherman. I rate it tolerable because, even talking about just Disney films, there are so many better ones. It is, however, better than any Disney film made after 2000.
An American Disney animated adventure musical directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, starring George Sanders, Sterling Holloway and J. Pat O'Malley.
A human child is found in the jungles of India, raised by wolves and becomes friends with a panther and a bear. His survival is threatened by a tiger.
Inaccurate. I read the book a while ago and the only things that Disney got right were the basic premise and main characters. Everything else in the plot was fabricated and sugar-coated. Derisive comments complete, I actually like this. It was made way back when Disney made movies worth watching. The very traditional animation style was similar to their other works from this time period, but that is good. There was comedy added that was not in the book and (although inaccurate) I liked that. It doesn't hurt review points that I watched this when I was very young on VHS. Mowgli's voice sounded very much like Arthur from The Sword in the Stone (1963), but Arthur was Rickie Sorensen, Richard Reitherman and Robert Reitherman and Mowgli was Bruce Reitherman. When He fell from the branch at the end, I was expecting "woah what woah", young Arthur's oft-repeated line. I rate this awesome for sentimental value and irreplacability.
