Alice in Wonderland

"A world of wonders in one great picture!"

1951 1h 15m EN

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7.2

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★7.2TMDB · 6,414

AnimationFamilyFantasyAdventure

Synopsis

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On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.

“A world of wonders in one great picture!”

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Cast

Kathryn Beaumont
Alice (voice)
Ed Wynn
Mad Hatter (voice)
Richard Haydn
Caterpillar (voice)
Sterling Holloway
Cheshire Cat (voice)
Jerry Colonna
March Hare (voice)
Verna Felton
Queen of Hearts (voice)
J. Pat O'Malley
Walrus / Carpenter / Dee / Dum (voice)
Bill Thompson
White Rabbit / Dodo (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Clyde Geronimi
Writers: Aldous Huxley, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $57M — a 19.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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4 / 8

ERA

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75 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Oliver Wallace. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Lloyd L. Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Kathryn Beaumont and Ed Wynn and Richard Haydn carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

AWARDS

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Marketing tagline: "A world of wonders in one great picture!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Clyde Geronimi directs. Oliver Wallace scores. Lloyd L. Richardson cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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1Tight 75-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $57M — a 19.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
475 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Original score by Oliver Wallace. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Lloyd L. Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Kathryn Beaumont and Ed Wynn and Richard Haydn carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "A world of wonders in one great picture!".
9IMDB entry: tt0043274 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 21 themes, including "dreams", "based on novel or book", "heart", "queen".
11Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: Oliver Wallace
Editing: Lloyd L. Richardson
Runtime: 75 min · 1h 15m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $3,000,000
Box office: $57,200,000
Return: 1907% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Alice in Wonderland (1951)

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CinemaSerf2023-01-07
★ 7/10
Lewis Carroll really did provide Walt Disney with a veritable Aladdin's cave of delights to work from with for this hugely entertaining and colourful adaptation of his "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" stories. From the start with the "White Rabbit" she has adventures, mishaps and an a-maze-ing time meeting the "Mad Hatter" the centipede; talking roses; the mischievous "Cheshire Cat"; a truly surreal tea party, and of course the "Queen of Hearts" as bonkers and over-the-top as ever the author could have imagined - you sure wouldn't want to be a flamingo at her court! The whole thing makes no sense at all, really - so don't go looking for any logical structure or story narrative - there isn't one. Oliver Wallace's cracking score lost out for the Oscar to "An American in Paris" but is still, every inch, a winner...
Andre Gonzales2023-04-16
★ 5/10
I loved this movie when I was a kid. Not so much any more for some reason.