Word: ichabod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ichabod and Mr. Toad," a film happily uncluttered with "live" Hollywood actors, marks Walt Disney's return to the field of the straight animated cartoon. The result is uneven, but its high spots are as completely charming as any of Disney's earlier successes...
After Basil Rathbone's neatly trimmed and waxed voice, Bing Crosby's narration of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a letdown. The suspicion that Bing isn't taking the tale seriously is disquieting. The doings of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane are tailored to fit Crosby rather than Irving; that is probably why much of the charm of the first episode is missing in this one. There is enough left over to make good entertainment, though...
...Ichabod possesses remarkable equanimity, which remains undisturbed until his path is crossed by the inevitable woman--the coquette Katrina. From then until his encounter with the Headless Horseman, he floats about on the screen in a transport of joy. As for the Horseman, he scared the pants off the kids at the RKO-Keith. More mature moviegoers will have no trouble in this respect...
...lean journalist and ex-pressagent who figured there was more than one way to give a Sunday supplement a Sunday punch. The Weekly had been weaned (by the late Morrill Goddard) on a formula of blood and sexy scandals. This Week's Editor William I. (for Ichabod) Nichols prescribed a blander fare: so-so fiction, fashions, features, cartoons. For roughage he added articles on such subjects as home-buying, legislators' pay, sex education...
...incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does a lot for the next best thing-the songs...