Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987 film)
Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 1987 Australian-Italian animated film nominally based on the 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Andrea Bresciani and Richard Slapczynski from a screenplay by Jameson Brewer. The film stars the voices of Janet Waldo, Mr. T, Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, George Gobel, Alan Young, Clive Revill, and Townsend Coleman.
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Directed by | Andrea Bresciani Richard Slapczynski |
Produced by | Jameson Brewer |
Written by | Jameson Brewer |
Based on | Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll |
Starring | Janet Waldo Mr. T Jonathan Winters Phyllis Diller George Gobel Alan Young Clive Revill Townsend Coleman |
Music by | Todd Hayen |
Production company | Burbank Films Australia Jambre Productions |
Distributed by | Purple Cow Productions |
Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | Australia Italy United States Poland |
Language | English |
Plot
The movie starts off with a bored Alice trapped in her house by a snow storm. Much of the film consists of Alice (Janet Waldo) and a jester named Tom Fool (Townsend Coleman) journeying through some of the incidents of the novel, while ultimately, the film is more about Alice finding an imaginary friend in Tom Fool than the novel's themes of logic, illogic, and reversal. She encounters Heffalumps, rock-throwing cavemen, Ed Sullivan, The Marx Brothers (Hal Rayle) and Humpty Dumpty (George Gobel). There is also a man made entirely out of newspaper, a talking horse and a talking goat. When Alice wakes up, her father plays a game of chess with her, which her dream journey was based on, walking from square to square on a large chessboard.
Cast
- Janet Waldo - Alice, Red Queen
- Mr. T - Jabberwocky
- Phyllis Diller - White Queen
- Jonathan Winters - Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- George Gobel - Humpty Dumpty
- Alan Young - White Knight
- Clive Revill - Snark, Goat
- Booker Bradshaw - Centaur
- Townsend Coleman - Tom Fool
- Alan Dinehart - Father, White King, Wizard
- Hal Rayle - Ed Sullivan, The Marx Brothers
- Will Ryan - Paper Man
- Hal Smith - Bandersnatch, Conductor, Horse
Crew
- Alan Dinehart - Voice Director
External links
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) on IMDb
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) at Rotten Tomatoes
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) at TV.com
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987) at AllMovie