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Release year: 1949

Storyline

This theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and stop-motion animation.

Top credits

Directors

Dallas Bower

Writers

Cast

Stephen Murray — Lewis Carroll, The Knave of Hearts
Ernest Milton — The Vice Chancellor, The White Rabbit
Pamela Brown — The Queen, The Queen of Hearts
Felix Aylmer — Dr. Liddel, The Cheshire Cat

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Did you know

• Carol Marsh insisted on doing some of the most difficult sequences herself, when a double would have been permissible. Falling down the rabbit hole to Wonderland entailed a hair-raising thirty-foot drop into a net. A famous French trapeze artist, Mile Roselie, showed her how to make the fall, but Carol completed the scene with bruised knees, scratched legs and six ruined pairs of stockings. Carol found the most difficult scene was the one where she slides down an enormous table leg. It was an almost perpendicular drop, and Carol admits she was very frightened while doing it.

• The adaptation is faithful to Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," a thinly-veiled satire of 19th-century England. The Queen of Hearts is really Queen Victoria, the King is Prince Albert, the White Rabbit is the chancellor of Oxford, the Cheshire Cat is the Dean of Oxford University's Christ College... and the Valet is Lewis Carroll himself.

• The film was not released in the United Kingdom until 1985 due to the possibly offensive caricature of Queen Victoria.