Alice behind the mirrors (1966)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Alice behind the mirrors |
| Original title | Alice Through the Looking Glass |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Handley |
| script | Albert Simmons |
| production |
Alan Handley , Bob Wynn |
| music | Moose Charlap |
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Alice Behind the Looking Glass (Original Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass ) is a 1966 television film produced by 20th Century Fox based on the novel Alice Behind the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll .
action
Bored and left alone in her parents' living room, Alice suddenly sees the red king, with whose help she walks through the mirror. There she suddenly sees a mirror image, but the red king - or better: his reflection - appeases her and explains to her: There are always two sides to everything in life.
Alice explores this strange world behind the mirror and realizes in the course of the plot that many other things are simply "the other way around": It is strictly forbidden not to step on the lawn and one prefers the backward rather than the forward alphabet. Soon she also learns about the evil spirit of this world: the Jabberwock . But since this has only one side - one evil - she cannot know him from her own world.
At your side is the good spirit Lester the Jester. When she once asked him what he was in reality, he replied only mysteriously: He was a very good friend (English: she will find out in due course). Other fairy tales are also woven into the film musical, such as the Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz or three evil witches, the Hansel and Gretel witch, the Snow White witch and the Sleeping Beauty witch .
In the course of the film she meets Humpty Dumpty, the egg that falls from the wall, the twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who teach her the reverse alphabet, or the bottle that says "drink me", which she prefers to stay this time . So she experiences the adventures known from Lewis Carroll's book, until she can finally flee from the evil Jabberwock with the help of Lester to her side of the mirror and see the true figure of Lester.
music
Moose Charlap (1928–1974) wrote the following individual titles for this film:
- Through the Looking Glass
- There Are Two Sides to Everything
- Who are you?
- Keep on the grass
- Alice is coming to tea
- Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
- Some summer day
- 'Twas brilliant
- The Backwards Alphabet
- Jabberwock song
- I wasn't meant to be a Queen
background
The material was implemented by ABC as a film musical in the style of Chitti Chitti Bang Bang or Mary Poppins . The original Lester the Jester (Roy Castle), which Alice supports as a good spirit, has been added to the original. In contrast to earlier productions, Alice is not portrayed by a child but by Judi Rolin , who was then twenty . The film contains some slapstick sequences. Director Alan Handley won the Directors Guild of America Award for the film .
In Germany the film was u. a. shown on July 20, 1979 on ZDF .
In the wake of Tim Burton's version of the story being released, the television film was released on DVD.
reception
The low budget due to the television implementation makes the film more reminiscent of a theater play. It is reminiscent of comparable Disney productions of that time, but without depicting a copy of Alice in Wonderland . Bob Etier of Blogcritics.org says the film would be suitable for nostalgic adults as well as children. She especially highlights Jack Palance's performance as Jabberwock.
Web links
- Alice Through the Looking Glass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ after Musical Compositions Inspired by Lewis Carroll ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Bob Etier: review. (No longer available online.) January 29, 2010, archived from the original on September 4, 2014 ; Retrieved September 4, 2014 .
- ↑ http://www.tvprogramme.net/70/1979/19790720.htm