The Wonderful World of Disney "The Horse Without a Head" Disney Exclusive DVD
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DVD: Region Code 1Format: Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Disney
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Movie Review: gem of a film
Summary: 5 Stars
THE STORY: When a famous French mail train is robbed in a rural area, the thieves stash their loot inside an abandoned factory in a poor village, planning to return when the heat dies down. They hide the key inside a wooden horse that the local kids play with. The local children stumble on the key and the cash, and fight to keep the crooks from it. It is hard to say much more without being a spoiler, as it is full of suprises and suspense.
BEHIND THE SCENES & TRIVIA: The movie has comedy, drama, and suspense and is quite a little gem. All of the actors were new to Disney except the young girl, played very well by Pamela Franklin, who appeared again in a Disney theatrical feature 3 years later, "A Tiger Walks". This is one of the most interesting films to come from the Disney Studio. The actors and plot are very good, and the costumes and set are very authentic due to high quality art direction by Michael Stringer. The subtitle for the film is "The 100,000,000 Franc Train Robbery". While the film is set in France, almost all of the production was actually filmed in England. The outdoor set was a French village, built entirely from scratch at the backlot of Pinewood Studios into the largest movie set Britain had ever seen before. Over a million square feet in size, it took 8 weeks to construct, and used 50 tons of concrete. It is completely convincing, and you would never know it is a studio set. The Disney studio used the set again 3 years later, doing an incredible job of redressing it to become a Scottish village for the film, "The Three Lives of Thomasina".
"Horse Without a Head" was originally released theatrically overseas in 1961, but never in the US. This is curious because the production values and quality of the film are much higher than many other projects that Disney distributed to theatres at the time. Two years later it finally aired on the Disney television show, "Wonderful World of Disney", for the first time in two parts beginning on 9/29/63. It re-aired in '64, and '67. It was later serialized on The New Mickey Mouse Club. I recommend you track down this little gem, we enjoyed it immensely.
Summary of The Wonderful World of Disney "The Horse Without a Head" Disney Exclusive DVD
When a kindly junk dealer gives a group of poor French children a headless toy horse, the kids dub themselves "The Knights Of The Headless Horse." The broken toy becomes their only source of fun as they race down the narrow streets of their village. But suddenly the horse becomes the pawn in another game - a deadly race against time between a ruthless gang of train robbers (led by Herbert Lom) and the town's honest police inspector (Jean-Pierre Aumont). The stakes are high: A hundred million francs... and the lives of five innocent children!Similar DVD Movies
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