The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Directed by

Jack Kinney, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi

Genre

fantasy film, anthology film, musical film, ghost film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

G

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 693 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated film tells two separate stories. The first follows Mr. Toad, a wealthy and impulsive toad who gets into trouble with his obsession for motorcars. The second features Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher who encounters a legendary headless horseman in a haunted town.

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What happens

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It consists of two segments: the first based on Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows and narrated by Basil Rathbone, and the second based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and narrated by Bing Crosby. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen, and was directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, and James Algar. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad began development in 1940 as a single-narrative feature film based on The Wind in the Willows. After a series of production delays, the project was cut down to a short film and eventually merged with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (which was also originally conceived as a full-length feature) in 1947. It is the last of the studio's package film era of the 1940s; they returned to full-length animated films starting with Cinderella in 1950. Disney would not produce another package film until The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was released in theaters on October 5, 1949. Beginning in 1955, the two segments of the film were separated, and televised as part of the Disneyland television series. They were later marketed and sold separately on home video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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