Tom Thumb [1958] (DVD, 2000, Widescreen/Full Screen) NEW

Product description No Description Available. Genre: Musicals Rating: G Release Date: 3-OCT-2000 Media Type: DVD From the Back Cover Come soar away on the wings of your imagination to a land where forest spirits dwell, star-crossed lovers have their fondest dreams come true, and a pint-sized young boy charms his way right out of a fairy tale and straight into your heart. This is the merry and magical, mystic and mythical, marvelous world of Tom Thumb! Brimming with Oscar-winning special effects like magic shoes which dance a merry jig and playful toys which leap to vibrant life, Tom Thumb is a wonderfully fanciful motion picture. Russ Tamblyn ( West Side Story) is superbly acrobatic as Tom, and Peter Sellers and Terry Thomas provide a whopping helping of high-spirited adventure, comic mischief and laughter galore. With its music, dancing and storybook kingdom of spectacularly imaginative stagings, this effervescent film is a colorful extravaganza that's certain to delight and enchant one and all! For giant-sized entertainment for the whole family, Tom Thumb is a thumbs-up sure bet!

Producer/animator/special-effect maven George Pal made his feature-film directorial bow with the colorful MGM musical fantasy Tom Thumb (the title of the film was spelled in lower case in the opening credits, and in all studio publicity material). Russ Tamblyn stars as the teeny-tiny titular protagonist, while veteran musicomedy favorite Jessie Mathews and stellar character actor Bernard Miles portray Tom's normal-sized parents. Journeying to the Village, Tom is pounced upon by villains Ivan (Terry-Thomas) and Tony (a corpulent Peter Sellers), who intend to exploit our 5 1/2-inch-tall hero. In-between his misadventures with the villains, Tom helps to expedite the romance between young forester Woody (Alan Young) and the magical Forest Queen (June Thorburn). Throughout, the special effects and oversized sets are first-rate, as are the "puppetoons" sequences featuring such delightful characters as The Yawning Man (voice by Stan Freberg). Written by several hands, the film's songs are hummable, if not particularly memorable. It is said that some children in the audience in 1958 were genuinely frightened by the more horrific aspects of the story (including the threatened execution of Tom's parents); it may be, however, that the adults were more scared than the kids. Incidentally, while most of Tom Thumb was filmed in MGM's London facilities, the special effects were produced in Hollywood, requiring Russ Tamblyn to do a lot of travelling. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide. cc Interactive menus, Notes on Russ Tamblyn and George Pal, Theatrical trailer, Scene access, Languages & subtitles: English & Fran?ais, . cc Interactive menus Notes on Russ Tamblyn and George Pal Theatrical trailer Scene access Languages & subtitles: English & Fran??ais .