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Price $4.98
Starring:
Hywel Bennett,
Rodney Bewes,
Ray Brooks,
Michael Crawford,
William Ellis,
Directed By:
Rated: G (General Audience)
Release Date: 1972
Studio: Bci / Eclipse
Format:
Closed-captioned,
Color,
DVD-Video,
NTSC,
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Customer Reviews for
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Fiona Fullerton (A View to a Kill) joins a host of English cast members in this marvelous adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel, made in the early 1970s.
James Bond soundtrack musician John Barry wrote an excellent score, and Fiona's singing compliments it well, adapting the nonsense rhymes of Lewis Carroll to music. I much prefer these older versions to the modern remakes.
PeterAlice's Adventures In Wonderland
awesome alice.....so so transfer (but don't let that stop you)
Okay, so to begin with, this is an awesome production of Alice in Wonderland. The sets are beautiful and bright and you really feel like it is wonderland. The actors are pretty good , Fiona Fullerton (who plays Alice) is incredible and some of the "all star cast" are pretty good as well, though some of them seem like they can't develop their character just because of the lines or their screen time. The music is SENSATIONAL! John Barry has composed such a haunting and hypnotic score that is just chilling (in truth he's too good for the ehh "so so" songs in the movie) Some of the songs are really good and are HELPFUL to the story, wheras some like the tea party "pun song" or the mouse's song or even Alice singing a random line that lasts less than 1 minute are pretty unnecessary to the story and are a bit annoying. However the songs "Curiouser, The Last Word is Mine, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the Lobster Quadrille" really give the film a great musical touch.
Now, the DVD itself, as people have whined all about on here, is actually not THAT bad. The film is great, and sure there is a little bit of tracking on the bottom of the screen for maybe 1 minute while Alice is "WALKING" oo stop the world! She has to be walking O SO perfectly. And the other scene is when she sees the cheshire cat in the sky and strangely enough, the screen turns blue. But it isn't for too long and soon returns to normal.
So I highly reccomend adding this to your collection. Perhaps someday, they'll remaster this film and give it some good special features (commentary, making of perhaps) after all not ALL of the cast is dead so they shouldn't have trouble doing a making of.
Ignore the stupid songs, ignore the 1 minute glitches and follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole..............
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
A wonderful verson, but the audio is terrible
This is a wonderful version of Alice in Wonderland (combined with elements of Through the Looking Glass).
Unfortunately, the audio track is terrible. The is by far the worst audio track on any DVD I have purchased to date.
In spite of this, the songs and choreography are first-rate. This is not a musical, but a significant part of the story is expressed through song and sometimes dance.
Most notable in this production are:
(1) Dudley Moore, whom you will probably not recognize as the Doormouse;
(2) the Mad Tea Party, which is very well done;
(3) the songs and dance with the Gryphon and Mock Turtle, which are very, very well done;
(4) and, best of all, the song between the White Rabbit and Alice, "The Last Word Is Mine," where he mistakes Alice for Maryanne, Mabel and a number of other girls.
This version of Alice in Wonderland is a worthy collectors item, in spite of the poor audio.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
An Adventure For ALL Ages!
I found this at Wal-Mart for $1.00 and I still think that this is THE BEST Alice In Wonderland EVER made. I enjoyed watching it (again) as much as my kids!Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
fine musical adaption by John Barry
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND is a lush and lavish musical version of Lewis Carroll's book, with a haunting score by John Barry. The cast reads like a Who's Who of British acting talent.
Alice herself is played by a teenage Fiona Fullerton, a charming musical theatre performer, who gives the role a spirit and wonderment which is perfect for the character. Michael Crawford plays the White Rabbit, with other key roles filled by Sir Robert Helpmann as the Mad Hatter, Peter Sellers as the March Hare, Dudley Moore as the Dormouse and Dame Flora Robson as the Queen of Hearts.
The score is quite haunting, in particular Alice's "Curioser and Curioser" and the final number "The Me I Never Knew". John Barry's score has become quite admired over the years, and copies of the original soundtrack LP have been known to fetch large sums of money.
If you can, try to see the film in it's original Todd-AO/Super Panavision 70 proportions. My DVD is presented in the original aspect ratio (though lacks 16:9 enhancement).
Highly-recommended.Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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