The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad bevat twee bewerkingen van bekende boeken. In het eerste verhaal proberen Mr. Mole en Mr. Rat hun beste vriend Mr. Toad ervan te overtuigen dat hij zijn roekeloze hobby's moet opgeven voordat hij de problemen komt. Helaas slaat Toad hun raad in de wind, maar werkt zich een tijdje later flink in de problemen. In het tweede verhaal komt de slungelige schoolmeester Ichabod Crane naar het dorpje Sleepy Hollow om les te geven aan de kinderen. Helaas wordt hij al gauw op de hielen gezeten door de legendarische Headless Horseman.

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Walt Disney's 11th animated feature includes two classic stories: "The Wind in the Willows," narrated by Basil Rathbone, is based on the story by Kenneth Grahame, in which Mr. Toad's love of motorcars gets him and his friends in trouble with a gang of devious rats. Following this tale is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," narrated by Bing Crosby. Based on the story by Washington Irving, nervous schoolteacher Ichabod Crane falls in love with the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel but has trouble with rival Brom Bones, and a certain headless horseman. The Gold Collection Edition features a special bonus ghostly cartoon.

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Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The girl's vengeful ex-beau Brom Bones decides to scare Ichabod out of Sleepy Hollow by filling the impressionable teacher's brain with stories about the ghostly Headless Horseman--who of course makes an appearance that very night! The second half of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is based on the "Toad of Toad Hall" stories from Kenn...
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eth Grahame's The Wind and the Willows. The aristocratic but childish Mr. Toad loves motorcars, but his affection leads him to a jail term when he is accused of stealing an automobile. It's up to Toad's faithful friends to break Toad out of jail and expose the real crooks. One of Disney's better "omnibus" cartoon features, Ichabod and Mr. Toad is enhanced by the narrative skills of Bing Crosby in the Ichabod segment and Basil Rathbone in the Mr. Toad sequence.
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