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...some real ones and, in a series of natural-history films culminating in The Living Desert, dragged new kinds of beauty out of the depths of nature. In cartoons, Disney was challenged by Stephen Bosustow and a company of imaginative young artists. The Tell Tale Heart and The Unicorn in the Garden did their subjects from Poe and Thurber proud, and set new landmarks in the animator...
...group, Purgatory is static and lacks the contrasts it should have. It seems two-dimensional beside the rich, flowing whimsy of The Player Queen. Given the role of Septimns, a drunken poet, Russell more than acquits himself in the evening's second play. His eulogy of the chaste unicorn is particularly charming. The most skillful performance of the evening is Bronias Sielewicz' Decima, the actress who becomes queen when the real queen flees an attacking mob. Graceful in her movements, she is alternately coy and contemptuous as the part demands...
...Unicorn in the Garden (U.P.A.; Columbia) demonstrates, in just about the best seven minutes now showing on any screen, what happens to a man who doesn't let his sleeping wife lie. but dares to wake her with the information that there is a unicorn in the garden-"eating roses." The old girl just rolls over, fixes him with an eye like the hubcap of purgatory, and explains: "The unicorn is a mythical beast." The man goes droopingly downstairs and feeds the unicorn a lily. "The unicorn," he hastens to tell his wife, "ate a lily." "You," she concludes...
Remembering the point, readers who have long treasured James Thurber's cold little classic may rest easy about the first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make...
James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden, Willie the Kid, and the Academy-Award-winning Gerald McBoing-Boing...