The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Tagline:
« BING and WALT COMBINE THEIR TALENTS…IN A NEW AND THRILLING CARTOON FEATURE! (original print media ad – mostly caps) »
Actors:
Relating the Story of Ichabod Crane
Narrating the Story of Mr. Toad
Mr. Toad
Cyril Proudbottom
Prosecutor
Rating:
(20’358 votes)
(20’358 votes)
Quotes:
[last lines]
« Narrator: Man, I'm getting out of here!
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« Brom Bones: I'm telling you, brother, it's a frightful sight… to see what goes on Halloween night!
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« Mr. Toad: [in court giving his defense; to Cyril] Are you familiar with the defendant J. Thaddeus Toad?
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« Cyril Proudbottom: Lord love a duck, yes! He's one of the jolliest chaps I've ever run across! And simply *tons* of money!
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« Prosecutor: [to Cyril] Good fellow, eh? Throws it away. BUT he wasn't throwing it away *that* day! You heard Mr. MacBadger's testify that his allowance was cut off! Then how did he get the motorcar?
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« Cyril Proudbottom: The only way a gentlemen gets anything: the *honest* way.
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« Prosecutor: And what *is* the honest way?
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« Cyril Proudbottom: Ha-ha, I thought you wouldn't know that one, guv'nor.
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[Everyone laughs]
Runtime:68 minutes
Plots:
An animated adaptation of “The Wind in the Willows” followed by an adaptation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
Two stories. The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame’s story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving’s story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs “convincing” that Katrina is not for him.
Disney brings animated versions of 2 literary works to the screen here. The first is ‘The Adventures of Mr. Toad’, based on the characters from Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’. The second is based on Washinton Irving’s masterpiece ‘The Headless Horseman’, in which schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, smitten with Katrina Van Tassel, attends a party hosted by her father. Town thug Brom Bones, who also has his eye on Katrina, tries to intimidate Ichabod with the chilling story of ‘The Headless Horseman’, a ghost of a soldier in the revolutionary war who lost his head in a fight. When Ichabod rides home through Sleepy Hollow late at night, he finds himself confronted by the Headless Horseman who wants Ichabod’s head for himself! Will Ichabod escape the terrifying, sword-wielding ghost….or will the Headless Horseman claim Ichabod’s head for himself?
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