Riots in toy land

Movie
German title	Riots in toy land
Original title	Babes in Toyland
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1961
length	105.86 minutes
Rod
Director	Jack Donohue
script	Lowell S. Hawley, ; Ward Kimball , ; Joe Rinaldi
production	Walt Disney
music	Victor Herbert , ; George Bruns , ; Mel Leven
camera	Edward Colman
cut	Robert Stafford
occupation
	Ray Bolger : Barnaby Barnicle; Tommy Sands : Tom Piper; Annette Funicello : Mary Quite Contrary; Ed Wynn : Toy Maker; Mary McCarthy : Mother Goose;

Aufruhr im Toyland (original title: Babes in Toyland , German about toddlers in Toyland ) is an American feature film from 1961 , which was directed by Jack Donohue and produced by Walt Disney . The leading roles are played by Ray Bolger , Tommy Sands , Annette Funicello and Ed Wynn . Disney's first film musical is a film adaptation of the operetta Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert , which has been adapted several times, including 1934 as a Hal Roach production with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy under the title Revenge is sweet .

At the Academy Awards in 1962 , the film's soundtrack was nominated in the music film category , but had to admit defeat to the all-dominant West Side Story that year.

The film was released in American cinemas on December 14, 1961. In Germany he was first seen on December 27, 1998 on television on RTL .

content

The evil Barnaby kidnaps Tom, who wants to marry Mary, in order to marry Mary himself. Followers who are supposed to throw Tom into the sea to kill him, take Tom into the land of no return. In fact it is sold to traveling people ; The proceeds share the two followers and announce Barnaby Tom's death. They also steal Mary's sheep.

Barnaby manages to get Mary to marry him with a forged letter. For the music of the wedding celebration, he unwittingly hires the traveling people that Tom has with them. Disguised as a singer, Tom comes to Mary; Barnaby can escape.

While searching for the sheep, Tom and Mary find their way into the forest of no return and meet a toy maker who needs help making them for Christmas. He invented a shrink gun with which he would like to shrink natural objects to toy size. After Tom's hint that there aren't enough items to shrink for Christmas, the toy maker throws the gun away.

Barnaby, who has followed Tom and Mary, grabs the gun, shrinks Tom, and forces Mary to marry him. At the ceremony, which the toy maker is forced to perform, Barnaby is shrunk himself after some back and forth. With a newly invented anti-shrink gun, all but Barnaby are enlarged back to their natural size.

A few days later, Tom and Mary get married.

background

The film is based on the popular operetta Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert from 1903 and was the second feature film, who realized the material for the cinema after is revenge sweet of 1934 with Laurel and Hardy in the lead roles. In addition, there were three other TV adaptations, of which the 1986 version, Adventure in Toy Land with Drew Barrymore , is best known today.

It was Disney's first musical feature film. The film was released in Technicolor .

Disney had large parts of the story rewritten and changed the music, for example the lyrics were rewritten and some tempos were drastically changed.

Reviews

Riots in Toyland received mixed to negative reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 36% rating out of 11 rated reviews, with an average rating of 4.7.

"Despite countless special effects with which trick and real scenes were combined, a disappointing and boring film, carelessly staged and incorrectly cast in the main roles."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Babes in Toyland (U) . In: British Board of Film Classification . December 5, 1961. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b Riot in Toy Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 28, 2019 .
^ Academy Awards 1962. In: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS, accessed January 28, 2019 .
↑ Becker, Bill: Ed Wynn Returns to a Comedy Role . In: The New York Times (1923 – Current file) , March 23, 1961, p. 29.

[1] Babes in Toyland (U) . In: British Board of Film Classification . December 5, 1961. Retrieved December 1, 2016.

[LdiF-2] Riot in Toy Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 28, 2019 .

[Oscar-3] Academy Awards 1962. In: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS, accessed January 28, 2019 .

[new-4] Becker, Bill: Ed Wynn Returns to a Comedy Role . In: The New York Times (1923 – Current file) , March 23, 1961, p. 29.