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This is one in a series of reviews that will eventually be posted for every Alice in Wonderland title available on Amazon. When the Tim Burton rendition of AIW with Johnny Depp was due out in 2010 I thought it might be a good time to go back and watch the benchmark Walt Disney production from 1951, which I saw -or assumed I saw- as a child. It was a chance to get reacquainted with the many varied characters from the story as sort of a warm up for the Burton film. Upon viewing the Disney classic I was astonished to realize that I had likely never seen more than a few clips (at most) of that beautifully rendered Alice in Wonderland. So much seemed brand new. Nor did I have a memory of ever seeing any other "Alice" production. Then I realized that I had never read the book! Wait a minute. Where then did my memory of the Alice story come from? The curiosity sparked by that question ultimately led me over the next two years to accumulate every version of Alice in Wonderland still in existence. Well over 40 by the way!
Movies of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass has been made so many times its unreal. Even when you look it up you get different numbers, in every language you can imagine, and altered to fit a dozen different cultures. there was supposedly even a television short in 1937(tv? 1937?), though Ive never seen that one. as well as a softcore version which I'll leave to your imagination. let's just say that Alice is 21 years old in that one. If you are one of these people who find "children's" stories that actually have more meaning for adults creepy then why are you reading this.
This version like most Alice movies, can be enjoyed by whole families as they achieve the rarity of being relevant to different ages for different reasons. Most so with regards to this version. It has a much more heavy weight cast than most. Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C.Fields; in 1933 you could not have a bigger casting call. Its a nice version. Like most its not terribly interested in the actual story, instead creating the general character to match the big name in its skin.
Its not the best version artistically or in accuracy but its something everyone can sit down together and watch without anyones objection. And there seems to be a certain appeal of those actors I specifically named above that even younger people who have no idea who the actors are still seem drawn to them.
I own about 20 different versions of Alice films and several different written volumes and treatises. I have loved these particular stories since I was very young. the of the images you create in your mind reading them are better than any movie, even CGI cant compare.Read more ›
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I have vague memories (I think) of seeing this on TV as a kid. It's something of a holy grail to nostalgia buffs of course given that nearly every Paramount star who was anybody in 1933 - including most famously Cary Grant, W.C. Fields and Gary Cooper - appears in it, and it's never been on video before. Its reputation isn't all that great though, and the film was shorn of about 15 minutes on reissues which apparently (see below) have been lost for good. So it was with a bit of trepidation that I, inveterate Alice-lover, took a gander.
I needn't have worried. Sure, this suffers from all of the defects one would expect of such a lavish star-vehicle from the day - too much rushing through scenes (even at its original 90 minutes, trying to shunt together big hunks of both "Alice" and "Through the Looking Glass" is going to feel thin), an Alice (Charlotte Henry) who is both too old and just not expressive enough for the part, a director (Norman Z. McLeod) sometimes content to point-and-shoot, and some celeb bits (Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle in particular) that just aren't that great or are too short. And this is one of those rare black and white films where I actually thought more than once while watching "gee, I wish this had been in color". Somehow "Alice" more than almost any classic story, seems to demand a riotous palette of hues.
BUT the sets and art direction - supervised by an uncredited William Cameron Menzies, one of the greatest art directors/production designers of all time but listed here only as co-screenwriter - is truly wonderful, capturing at times the surrealism and madness of the tale with an expressionist's palate of odd shapes and complex backgrounds.Read more ›
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