A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
June 25, 1938
Original Title:
Have You Got Any Castles?
Genres:
Animation | Comedy | Music
Production Companies:
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 7
Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.
Animation:
Phil Monroe
Ken Harris
Paul J. Smith
Robert McKimson
Background Designer:
Art Loomer
Characters:
Washington Irving
Thorne Smith
Jacob Grimm
Daniel Defoe
Gaston Leroux
Wilhelm Grimm
Johanna Spyri
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dashiell Hammett
Sax Rohmer
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
Alexandre Dumas
H.G. Wells
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Co-Director:
Friz Freleng
Director:
Frank Tashlin
Editor:
Treg Brown
Orchestrator:
Milt Franklyn
Original Music Composer:
Carl W. Stalling
Producer:
Leon Schlesinger
Sound Effects Editor:
Treg Brown
Story:
Jack Miller
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