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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street near the Park Street subway station...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney; RKO Radio) is an uneven doubleheader by Walt Disney, who has combined into one film two dissimilar literary classics: Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The contrast in the handling of the two unrelated stories neatly illustrates some of Disney's outstanding vices & virtues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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