Tom Thumb
MGM, 1958, Color, 92 minutes, ***
Released December, 1958
Things are looking up for the woodcutter's lad named Tom Thumb. Of course, when you're a mere 5½ inches tall, that's the only way things can look. The tiny hero overcomes hard luck and huge obstacles while saving his parents from harm in this beloved Best Special Effects Academy Award winner based on the Brothers Grimm tale and produced and directed by trailblazing effects moviemaker George Pal.
Russ Tamblyn plays the title role, bringing athletic enthusiasm to an imaginative story in which toys spring to life (but only for Tom!) and unoccupied shoes happily cavort. Peggy Lee composes two of the five songs. And Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers provide gleeful villainy. Good things do indeed come in small packages. [from back of DVD case]
Producer: George Pal
Associate Producer: Dora Wright
Directed by: George Pal
Assistant Director: David Middlemas
Screen Play by: Ladislas Fodor
Based on a Story from the Pen of the Brothers Grimm
Songs by: Peggy Lee and Fred Spielman, Janice Torre, Kermit Goell
Music Direction: Muir Mathieson
Musical Score by: Douglas Gamley and Ken Jones
Choreographer: Alex Romero
Art Director: Elliot Scott
Costume Designer: Olga Lehmann
Make-Up: Charles Parker
Hairdresser: Hilda Fox
Recording Supervisor: A. W. Watkins
Director of Photography: Georges Perinal
Photographic Effects: Tom Howard
Animators: Gene Warren and Wah Chang
Film Editor: Frank Clarke
Awards: Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects (Tom Howard)
Cast: Russ Tamblyn [Tom Thumb], Alan Young [Woody], June Thorburn [Forest Queen], Terry-Thomas [Ivan], Peter Sellers [Antony], Bernard Miles [Jonathan], Jessie Matthews [Anne], Ian Wallace [The Cobbler], Peter Butterworth [Kapellmeister], Peter Bull [Town Crier], Barbara Ferris [Thumbelina], Stan Freberg [voice of Yawning Man], Dal McKennon [voice of Con-Fu-Shon], Norma Zimmer [singing voice of Anne]
Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (Tom Thumb's Tune / Are You a Dream) (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:15] After All These Years (sung by Norma Zimmer dubbing for Jessie Matthews); [0:19] Tom Thumb's Tune (sung by Russ Tamblyn and Chorus, danced by Russ Tamblyn; recurring theme in background score); [0:37] Talented Shoes (played by Military Band, sung by Ian Wallace, danced by Talented Shoes and people at the fair; instrumental segment danced by Russ Tamblyn); [1:00] The Yawning Song (sung by Stan Freberg); [1:08] Are You a Dream (sung by Alan Young); [1:31] Tom Thumb's Tune (sung by Chorus, danced by Russ Tamblyn and Barbara Ferris)
MGM, 1958, Color, 92 minutes, ***
Released December, 1958
Things are looking up for the woodcutter's lad named Tom Thumb. Of course, when you're a mere 5½ inches tall, that's the only way things can look. The tiny hero overcomes hard luck and huge obstacles while saving his parents from harm in this beloved Best Special Effects Academy Award winner based on the Brothers Grimm tale and produced and directed by trailblazing effects moviemaker George Pal.
Russ Tamblyn plays the title role, bringing athletic enthusiasm to an imaginative story in which toys spring to life (but only for Tom!) and unoccupied shoes happily cavort. Peggy Lee composes two of the five songs. And Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers provide gleeful villainy. Good things do indeed come in small packages.
Producer: George Pal
Associate Producer: Dora Wright
Directed by: George Pal
Assistant Director: David Middlemas
Screen Play by: Ladislas Fodor
Based on a Story from the Pen of the Brothers Grimm
Songs by: Peggy Lee and Fred Spielman, Janice Torre, Kermit Goell
Music Direction: Muir Mathieson
Musical Score by: Douglas Gamley and Ken Jones
Choreographer: Alex Romero
Art Director: Elliot Scott
Costume Designer: Olga Lehmann
Make-Up: Charles Parker
Hairdresser: Hilda Fox
Recording Supervisor: A. W. Watkins
Director of Photography: Georges Perinal
Photographic Effects: Tom Howard
Animators: Gene Warren and Wah Chang
Film Editor: Frank Clarke
Awards: Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects (Tom Howard)
Cast: Russ Tamblyn [Tom Thumb], Alan Young [Woody], June Thorburn [Forest Queen], Terry-Thomas [Ivan], Peter Sellers [Antony], Bernard Miles [Jonathan], Jessie Matthews [Anne], Ian Wallace [The Cobbler], Peter Butterworth [Kapellmeister], Peter Bull [Town Crier], Barbara Ferris [Thumbelina], Stan Freberg [voice of Yawning Man], Dal McKennon [voice of Con-Fu-Shon], Norma Zimmer [singing voice of Anne]
Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (Tom Thumb's Tune / Are You a Dream) (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:15] After All These Years (sung by Norma Zimmer dubbing for Jessie Matthews); [0:19] Tom Thumb's Tune (sung by Russ Tamblyn and Chorus, danced by Russ Tamblyn; recurring theme in background score); [0:37] Talented Shoes (played by Military Band, sung by Ian Wallace, danced by Talented Shoes and people at the fair; instrumental segment danced by Russ Tamblyn); [1:00] The Yawning Song (sung by Stan Freberg); [1:08] Are You a Dream (sung by Alan Young); [1:31] Tom Thumb's Tune (sung by Chorus, danced by Russ Tamblyn and Barbara Ferris)
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