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Two children wander the forest and get lured into a witch's house.Two children wander the forest and get lured into a witch's house.Two children wander the forest and get lured into a witch's house.
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Pinto Colvig
- Gnomes
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Marcellite Garner
- Gretel
- (uncredited)
- …
Lucille La Verne
- Witch
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Purv Pullen
- Cats
- (uncredited)
Jayne Shadduck
- Children
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Burt Gillett(uncredited)
- Writers
- Ted Sears(uncredited)
- Webb Smith(uncredited)
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- TriviaFirst Silly Symphony to be released in color.
- GoofsWhen the witch puts the girl in the trap door, the handle to open it is on the right side. But when the boy-turned-spider opens the door to free the girl, the handle is now on the left side.
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Hansel and Gretel and some gnomes
An early attempt at the Brothers Grimm world to which Disney would soon lay claim. But more awkward and with much sloppier animation. The Hansel and Gretel stand-ins ("whose names I don't know") are shockingly devoid of personality - they've got weird little blank faces that even I could draw. When the boy is turned into a spider, it's both icky and somewhat of a relief, because at least now he's got some personality. Turned into a spider, not fattened up to be eaten. This witch just imprisons and transforms kids...the standard cannibalism was apparently too edgy.
The whole thing is also dated by the utterly inane song.
Is it just me, or is there something unearthly and horrific about the witch's final moments, after which the ring of laughing children just seems bizarre? And is the fact that the rock's 'arms' seem to have disappeared with the passage of time suppose to be a hint that this is all just the stuff of myth? So many questions.
The whole thing is also dated by the utterly inane song.
Is it just me, or is there something unearthly and horrific about the witch's final moments, after which the ring of laughing children just seems bizarre? And is the fact that the rock's 'arms' seem to have disappeared with the passage of time suppose to be a hint that this is all just the stuff of myth? So many questions.
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- jlgrosbeck
- Feb 5, 2002
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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