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Pinocchio : Special Edition [1940]

starring: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Walter Catlett
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske

Release Date March 03, 2003
now it may be a classic, but i'm afraid i was really disappointed with this film. my 5 yr old was frankly bored watching this, it was very slow to get moving. the story line was not what i was expecting. the jimmney cricket / conscience was to abstract for him to understand in the way it was presented. and there was a terrible bit later on with pinnochio getting drunk and smoking cigars. that bit raised a few tricky questions.

what i had expected the main story line to be - pinnochio's nose growing long when he lied, occured only once for about 20 seconds in the middle of the film and never again.

we will not be watching this one again
sadly not enjoyable or educational

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Dumbo (1941) (Disney) [1942]

starring: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Jim Carmichael
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen

Release Date April 11, 2005
dumbo is brilliant and so cute. They should bring dumbo back out and see more of him.

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Pinocchio [1940]

starring: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Walter Catlett
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske

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now it may be a classic, but i'm afraid i was really disappointed with this film. my 5 yr old was frankly bored watching this, it was very slow to get moving. the story line was not what i was expecting. the jimmney cricket / conscience was to abstract for him to understand in the way it was presented. and there was a terrible bit later on with pinnochio getting drunk and smoking cigars. that bit raised a few tricky questions.

what i had expected the main story line to be - pinnochio's nose growing long when he lied, occured only once for about 20 seconds in the middle of the film and never again.

we will not be watching this one again
sadly not enjoyable or educational

CD-Charts Position 4
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The Battle Of Midway [1976]

starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Edward Albert, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
directed by: Jack Smight

Release Date July 01, 1999
Midway is very much from the last-gasp of big-screen spot-the-star epics, and it shows. On paper it's an impressive cast - Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Toshiro Mifune, James Shigeta - but aside from Heston, Fonda and Hal Holbrook, few of them have much to do: Mitchum only has one scene. Much of the first third of the film is taken up with either gathering intelligence while Heston tries not very hard to get estranged son Edward Albert's Japanese-American wife out of internment (this section was even longer, with a subplot with Heston's wife removed from all but the US TV prints: parts of it can be found in this disc's deleted scenes).

Things don't improve much when ... Read More:

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Two A Penny [1967]

starring: Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers, Ann Holloway, Geoffrey Bayldon
directed by: James F. Collier

Release Date November 04, 2002
For someone who never had any formal training as an actor / singer, Cliff puts in a decent performance in this little-known, late 60s gem. He'd already been in a few other films by this time (Expresso Bongo, Summer Holiday and some other film which I haven't seen yet - the title of which escapes me). This film, "Two a Penny" is by far the most interesting out of all the Cliff films I have seen. I actually quite like it - and no I'm not a die-hard Cliff fan!

I was particularly interested in seeing "Two a Penny" to see how realistically Cliff plays the role of "bad guy" Jamie Hopkins, who is involved in theft, drug deals, violence and, almost, attempted rape. This type of character seems so remote from "Cliff" it must surely need some real acting? ... Read More:

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Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948]

starring: Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Luana Patten
directed by: Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney, William Morgan

Release Date July 03, 2000
I have loved the Mickey and the Beanstalk film since I was 3 and I still love watching it (I'm 18!). It's one of the classics that I believe is underrated. The drawings and paint are stunning and the humour is there aswell (I absolutely love Herman, the narrator and Willy the giant!).

Considering it's 60 years old, it's really a fantastic Disney film that should be in anyone's collection.
It's a good, old-fashioned tale that will keep children interested and yet, as it's only approx. 30 minutes long it's short enough so as to not make them bored.

Give them a classic, rather than the a mass-produced Pixar type film!
They don't make 'em like this any more!

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Dumbo [1942]

starring: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Jim Carmichael
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen

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dumbo is brilliant and so cute. They should bring dumbo back out and see more of him.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Dumbo [1942]

starring: Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards, Herman Bing
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen

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dumbo is brilliant and so cute. They should bring dumbo back out and see more of him.

CD-Charts Position 9
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A Century Of Barbarians

starring: Cliff Morgan, Gareth Edwards

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dumbo is brilliant and so cute. They should bring dumbo back out and see more of him.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Dumbo [1942]

starring: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Jim Carmichael
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen

Release Date
dumbo is brilliant and so cute. They should bring dumbo back out and see more of him.