Michael hordern alice in wonderland
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He would leave the studio in full make-up and remove it in the car on his way to the theatre.
The voice-over narrator at the opening says the time of year is early July, and Alice at the tea party says the day of the month is the 4th.
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The Mock Turtle (Sir Michael Hordern), who says he is from what mock turtle soup is made, is a bull in a turtle's shell.
It's a terrible transfer that won't go away - it looks no better on TV either. The score was released recently on CD, but there are many more instrumental cues that I'd love to hear in an expanded release.
It's very hard to enjoy this on DVD at present. This was because mock turtle soup (for those who couldn't afford to have real turtle soup) was generally made from veal.
Michael Crawford played his role at the same time as he was appearing in the West End comedy "No Sex Please, We're British".
It's a 2.35 widescreen movie that keeps being released from a non-anamorphic analogue transfer which would look bad even on VHS. The visual detail is lost, the busy video artifacts constantly distract. Most budget releases of this film are duplicates of second- or third-generation sources in 1.33:1 pan and scan.
A dialogue scene was filmed between Alice (Fiona Fullerton) and The Cheshire Cat (Roy Kinnear), with the latter perched in a tree.
The audio even distorts when the music swells. Again, this is the version that's just been re-released, so beware.
Musical version of Alice in Wonderland – the story of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, finds herself in a magical world with a host of eccentric characters and promptly embarks on a series of surreal adventures.
This all-star version of the Lewis Carroll classic has syrupy music and lyrics by John Barry and Don Black, and Fiona Fullerton plays Alice.
Fullerton had already made a couple of movies and was promoted as a new Julie Andrews, but she has a hard time not being upstaged by her co-stars.
Michael Hordern’s Mock Turtle, Ralph Richardson’s Caterpillar and Spike Milligan’s Gryphon are the most colourful creations on offer.
Peter Sellers, who plays the March Hare, caused a minor stir by peevishly slagging the film off before it opened.
Alice
Fiona Fullerton
White RabbitÂ
Michael Crawford
Mad Hatter
Robert Helpmann
Mock Turtle
Michael Hordern
Duckworth
Hywel Bennett
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Michael Jayston
Mouse
Davy Kaye
Dormouse
Dudley Moore
Gryphon
Spike Milligan
Cheshire Cat
Roy Kinnear
Tweedledee
Frank Cox
Tweedledum
Fred Cox
Caterpillar
Ralph Richardson
King of Hearts
Dennis Price
Queen of Hearts
Flora Robson
Knave of Hearts
Rodney Bewes
Two of Spades
Dennis Waterman
Five of Spades
Ray Brooks
Seven of Spades
Richard Warwick
Duchess
Peter Bull
March Hare
Peter Sellers
Cook
Patsy Rowlands
Guinea Pig Pat
Freddie Earlle
Guinea Pig Two
Mike Elles
Bill the Lizard
Julian Chagrin
Dodo
William Ellis
Fish Footman
Peter O’Farrell
Frog Footman
Ian Trigger
Lorina
Victoria Shallard
Edith
Pippa Vickers
Eagle
Ray Edwards
Monkey
Stanley Bates
Squirrel
Melita Manger
Lory
Angela Morgan
Magpie
June Kidd
Frog
Michael Reardon
Duck
Brian Tipping
Director
William Sterling
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Like I said, I'm carried through it all by John Barry's beautiful soundtrack, which adapts some of Lewis Carroll's verses into 'songs'.
It was on July 4, 1862, on a boating trip that Lewis Carroll first told the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland story to Alice Liddell and her two sisters.
Because of the film being barely released in the US, it fell into the public domain there after its 1985 US VHS release, meaning anyone in the US can make and sell a VHS/DVD of the film.