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RUNTIME
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Tight 22-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cap'n O.G. Readmore's Jack and the Beanstalk
1985 0h 22m EN
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10.0
MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Synopsis
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Cap'n O.G. Readmore and his friends – Kitty Literature, Ol' Tome Cat, Wordsy, Lickety Page and Dog-Eared – are holding their Friday Night Book Club meeting in an alley next to the public library. When members of the Book Club start to poke fun at some of the characters from their favorite fairy tales, the bookshelves part and Cap'n O.G. is abducted by those same characters. Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk challenges Cap'n O.G. to take his place in the story.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Neil Ross
Cap'n O.G. Readmore (voice)
Ilene Latter
Kitty Literature (voice)
Stan Jones
Ol' Tome Cat (voice)
Will Ryan
Wordsy (voice)
Lucille Bliss
Lickity Page (voice)
Hal Smith
Giant (voice)
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Rick Reinert
- Writers
- Malcolm Marmorstein
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The take
Rick Reinert directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 22-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 241 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Neil Ross and Ilene Latter and Stan Jones carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt1195605 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 22 min · 0h 22m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Rick Reinert
Production companies
Who made it
- RI
Rick Reinert Productions
ABC Entertainment
US
Key crew
- MusicSteve Zuckerman
Release history · US
When it landed
- TV1985-10-12
