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Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Walt Disney Productions

United States of America

English

Angela Lansbury

David Tomlinson

Roddy McDowall

Sam Jaffe

John Ericson

Bruce Forsyth

Cindy O'Callaghan

Roy Snart

Ian Weighill

Tessie O'Shea

Arthur Gould-Porter

Ben Wrigley

Reginald Owen

Cyril Delevanti

Rick Traeger

Manfred Lating

John Orchard

Bob Holt

Lennie Weinrib

Dal McKennon

Leon Alton

Conrad Bachmann

Frank Baker

Don Barclay

Jack Berle

Jane Betts

Eric Brotherson

Patrick Sullivan Burke

Charles Cirillo

Robert Cole

Patrick Dennis-Leigh

Anthony Eustrel

Morgan Farley

Bobby Gilbert

Ina Gould

Ed Haskett

Delos Jewkes

Sid Kane

Ed Kerrigan

Milt Larsen

Edith Leslie

Ysabel MacCloskey

Arthur Malet

George Mann

Chris Marks

James McInnes

Barbara Morrison

William H. O'Brien

Richard Peel

Maria Pogee

Jack Raine

Maxine Semon

Roy Smith

Arthur Space

Jerry Trent

Hank Worden

Robert Stevenson

Don DaGradi

Mary Norton

Bill Walsh

Cotton Warburton

Irwin Kostal

Frank V. Phillips

Robert O. Cook

Ward Kimball

Milt Kahl

Ralph Wright

Ted Berman

Alan Maley

Jack Colconda

Robert B. Sherman

Richard M. Sherman

Danny Lee

Gimly

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of my life alone in a studio with one of those tiny little 15cm TVs you wouldn't be caught dead with nowadays, plugged in to a VCR player, and exactly three movies on VHS. One of those three movies (the best of those three) was _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_. I watched it multiple times a day, every day, for months at a time. A period piece musical that saw orphans and their witch-friend get an army of sentient suits of armour to fight the Nazis... Is it any bloody wonder I turned out the way I did?

Great movie though. Wouldn't kill me to see a remake with modern technology. So long as it kept the vibe and setting of the original.

_Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

CinemaSerf

It's very much in the vein of "Mary Poppins" (1964) this, with a very similar style of live-action and animated sequences used to tell a slightly more menacing story. When three siblings arrive in a rural English village, evacuated from London during the Blitz of WWII, they are placed with the rather eccentric and definitely unwilling "Miss Price" (Angela Lansbury). Things start to look up for all concerned though when the kids discover that she is a trainee witch, and when they meet "Emelius" (David Tomlinson) they embark on some adventures using their magical bed as their vehicle in the search for the missing part of a substitutiary locomotion spell that might just thwart the Nazis. As with "Poppins", the music and lyrics come from the Sherman twins and "Beautiful Briny" and "Portobello Road" are probably the two best from their not so catchy soundtrack this time. Lansbury and Tomlinson work well together with the former on good form as the ostensibly prim and proper, but actually quite feisty and mischievous would-be witch. The three youngsters also perform well, especially the youngest "Paul" (Roy Snart) who just won't let anyone else near the knob that controls the bed! A smattering of familiar faces help to keep the story bobbing along nicely and the animations, tough not so frequent as I would have liked, blend in well with some fun action scenes - especially at the end - and make for an enjoyable, feel-good, family movie.

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Angela Lansbury

David Tomlinson

Roddy McDowall

Sam Jaffe

John Ericson

Bruce Forsyth

Cindy O'Callaghan

Roy Snart

Ian Weighill

Tessie O'Shea

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