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Release year: 1949

Storyline

In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.

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Cast

Bing Crosby — Narrator, Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones
Billy Bletcher — Headless Horseman Laugh
Pinto Colvig — Ichabod Crane (screaming), Other Townspeople
Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires — Chorus, Additional voices

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Did you know

• The Headless Horseman is often cited as being, along with the Firebird in Fantasia 2000 (1999), The Horned King in The Black Cauldron (1985), and Chernabog in Fantasia (1940), as one of the scariest villains in the Disney canon. Disney still receives complaints from parents about the character frightening their children.

• The song "Headless Horseman" is considered one of the darkest songs written for a Disney film. It, much like "Worthless" from The Brave Little Toaster (1987) and "Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), was nearly cut from the film.

• The church shown during the opening narration ("...and yet somehow foreboding") and where Brom & Katrina get married at the end is drawn to look like the actual Old Dutch Church in the real Sleepy Hollow that was built in the late 1600s and still stands there (and is still used during the summer).