Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Eglantine Price is niet zo maar een gewone heks. Zij woont in Pepperinge Eyre, snort rond op een door zwavel aangedreven motorfiets, eet wortels en netels, leert haar stiel per briefwisseling met professor Emelius Brown en droomt ervan de nazi's, die Engeland met een invasie bedreigen, door haar toverkunsten te vernietigen. Dat is echter niet zo eenvoudig als de corresponderende heks had gedacht. De professor moet zijn school sluiten voor het einde van de cursus. Om de bevrijdende toverformule plus toversteen in haar macht te krijgen moet Eglantine heel wat lastige obstakels trotseren. En dan komen er op de koop ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned out, Bedknobs was frequently compared to Mary Poppins -- probably thanks to several striking similarities between the two productions, notably the presence in the cast of David Tomlinson, the use of Cockney children as central characters, and the inclusion of sequences that combine animation and live-action. Set in wartime England, Bedknobs stars Angela Lansbury as Eglantine Price, a would-be witch who hopes to use her newly acquired conjuring powers to forestall a Nazi invasion. Saddled wi...
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th three surly kids who've been evacuated from London, Lansbury wins over her charges by performing various and sundry feats of magic. And, yes, she manages to foil a few Germans along the way. The film's most famous episode is an elaborate undersea fantasy, which combines animation with live-action on a gargantuan scale, dwarfing all previous Disney sequences along these lines.
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In England during World War II, three young kids are forced to evacuate their home and move in with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury). At first the youths are unhappy--until they discover that Eglantine is studying to become a witch. Eglantine teaches the children magic, using her new powers to take them on fantastic, fun-filled adventures, all of which they experience on a flying bedframe. But when the neophyte witch decides to use her powers to help the Brits win the war, will she succeed...or will she just create more havoc? Robert Stevenson directs this delightful Disney film that mixes live act...
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