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Release year: 1971

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With the help of a time machine, Peter Cottontail must rescue Easter from the hands of the malicious Irontail.

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Danny Kaye — Seymour S. Sassafras, Antoine, Col. Wellington B. Bunny
Paul Frees — Colonel Bunny's Assistant, Fireman, Father at Thanksgiving Table, Santa Claus
Joan Gardner — Bonnie, Esmeralda, Shopkeeper
Casey Kasem — Peter Cottontail

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Did you know

• The calendars through which the time machine falls into the various holidays are all correct for the year the film was released, 1971 ... including New Year's Day and the holidays following, in which (if the holidays were visited in sequence) the calendars should have rolled over to the next year.

• Antoine is supposed to be taking Peter Cottontail back in time to the previous Easter, but the yestermorrow-bile's malfunction apparently takes them forward in time instead... At Mother's Day, the boy tells him, "You forgot us on Easter." Donna tells him at Valentine's Day that she read about his mistake in the paper. Peter leaves Antoine at Christmas, and he has had time by the finale to turn into a butterfly. The finale therefore takes place at Easter a full year later. Iron Tail has presumably been so busy over the past year following Peter through time, that he never had a chance to implement any of those nasty things he said he was going to do to April Valley.

• The name "Peter Cottontail" comes from a series of books by Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965).

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