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motionpicturelover · 23 days

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"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971) - Robert Stephenson

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My absolute favourite of all the Disney live action films!

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dweemeister · 2 years

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You must face the age of not believing Doubting everything you ever knew Until at last you start believing There's something wonderful in you

Dame Angela Lansbury, who died at her home today in Los Angeles at the age of 96, is perhaps best known today as Jessica Fletcher in the acclaimed TV series Murder, She Wrote and in the Broadway stage plays and musicals in significant parts that Hollywood never gave her. But well before that, the Irish-British transplant to America (she and her family left Britain at the height of Nazi Germany’s bombing campaign of her home nation) made her career as mostly a character actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She may not have been a major star billed at the top of marquees and movie posters during her time while contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), but she would come to be a recognizable figure to audiences of multiple generations – whether she might be playing a tough saloon owner with a belter of a singing voice, a schoolteacher just making ends meet, Elvis’ mother (despite a nine-year age difference), princesses and queens, the amoral and scheming wife of a political candidate, an emotionally manipulative mother, or a teapot matriarch.

She stepped onto a movie soundstage for the first time at seventeen years of age, while making Gaslight (1944) for MGM. Because she was still technically a minor, she had to be accompanied by a social worker while working on set. Despite this, director George Cukor and her co-stars (including Ingrid Bergman) treated her as equals, all of them recognizing right away her professionality and acting ability. Perhaps producers and studio executives might not have done the same, saddling her so often with character roles, but Lansbury – by all accounts – extended that same kindness Cukor and Bergman afforded to her to so many others over the decades, leaving a legacy that goes beyond whatever personal disappointments she may have had over the more considerable roles she never got to play.

Her distinction as Hollywood royalty came later in life, as our connections of Hollywood’s Golden Age are almost all gone.

Nine of the films Angela Lansbury appeared in follow (left-right, descending):

Gaslight (1944) – directed by George Cukor; also starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Dame May Whitty

The Harvey Girls (1946) – directed by George Sidney; also starring Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O’Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Selena Royle, and Cyd Charisse

The Three Musketeers (1949) – directed by George Sidney; also starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Frank Morgan, and Vincent Price

The Court Jester (1955) – directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama; also starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, and Cecil Parker

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – directed by John Frankenheimer; also starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) – directed by Robert Stevenson and Ward Kimball; also starring David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, Cindy O’Callaghan, Ian Weighill, and Roy Snart

Death on the Nile (1978) – directed by John Guillermin; also starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, I.S. Johar, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven, Maggie Smith, and Jack Warden

Beauty and the Beast (1991) – directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise; also starring Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti, and Bradley Pierce

Mary Poppins Returns (2018) – directed by Rob Marshall; also starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, David Warner, and Dick Van Dyke

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swashbuckler5e · 6 months

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and with music written by the Sherman Brothers. It was produced by Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. It is based on the book The Magic Bedknob; Or, become a witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) by English children's author Mary Norton. A combination of live action and animation, the film stars Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Cindy O'Callaghan and Roy Snart.

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mgmpluto · 4 years

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

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movieometer · 7 years

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

MoM’s 2017 October Movie List: October 23rd

I wouldn’t consider this a Halloween movie. Or a spooky kids movie. It was a weird Mary Poppins wannabe with magic and better animation sequences. I wasn’t able to focus on it, because it bored me to death, but I’m pretty sure it’s set during World War 2 and about these 3 kids (orphans) who travel on a magical queen sized bed with a witch and a conman, and they go to another dimension to find a spell, and sing about it. There are Nazis in it...... Like ok Disney it’s been 30 years, you can cool it the fuck down now.

Rating: D. Mary Poppins is better.

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adamwatchesmovies · 3 years

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

I hate doing this, but everyone does it, and there’s a reason for that. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is amusing… if you’ve seen Mary Poppins so many times you need a break from it. This is not a bad movie. It's just that while Mary Poppins is a timeless classic, this is more of an amusing distraction.

Set in 1940’s England, Charlie (Ian Weighill), Carrie (Cindy O'Callaghan), and Paul Rawlins (Roy Snart) are evacuated from London and placed in the care of Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), who they discover is a witch-in-training. In exchange for their silence, Miss Price agrees to take them on adventures while she searches for the final lesson of her witchcraft course.

Let’s get the comparisons out of the way. Like Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks features a whimsical story about small children being taken care of by a magical woman, they go on wild adventures (including a land that’s entirely animated), there are songs and dances, everyone speaks with a British accent and David Tomlinson (whom you'll recognize as Mr. Banks) plays a prominent role. When comparing the two, there’s a clear winner. Is it unfair? I don’t think so. This film was obviously made to re-capture some of the magic from the multiple award-winning musical. It even has the Sherman Brothers composing the songs. It’s not as good, but that’s ok. Few films are.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is light and whimsical… despite being set during wartime and a Nazi featuring prominently in the climax. It sounds weird, and it is but while it plays out, you don't second-guess it because this is a movie for younger children. It’s about three kids who are down on their luck and are delighted to find out that their caretaker is a witch. All it takes is an enchanted bedpost to whisk them away from the doldrums of the world and into a place where anything can happen.

Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson resonate charm and perfectly fit their parts. They are both asked to do some slapstick work and both succeed at making you laugh. As for the kids, they're fine for their age - you give them a break because they're so sweet. When everyone goes full-on into adventure mode and they begin exploring strange worlds with talking animals, it gets delightfully silly. It's basically impossible not to crack a smile. I’ve got mixed feelings about the ending of the film though. The special effects are excellent, it features some of the picture's funniest segments. Then, it ends on a note I think is supposed to be optimistic but sure doesn't feel right.

There’s more good than bad in Bedknobs and Broomsticks by far. The film's biggest weakness is that you can’t help but compare it to another and that the gap between first place and second is quite vast. If you remember enjoying it as a kid and you still have that old VHS somewhere in a box, dig it out and view it again. I like this movie, but rent it before you decide to spend a lot on the super special edition Blu-ray. (On VHS, August 31, 2015)

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milliondollarbaby87 · 6 years

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Review

During World War II in England Charlie, Carrie and Paul Rawlings are sent to live with Eglantine Price, who just happens to be an apprentice witch.

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ulrichgebert · 7 years

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Weil es noch viel zu lange geht, bis wir den Film mit Angela Lansbury und dem fliegenden Rentierschlitten wieder anschauen können, vergnügen wir uns solange mit dem mit dem fliegenden Bett.

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sky-stealer · 12 years

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#Bedknobs and Broomsticks #angela lansbury #disney #ian weighill #gif #gif set #mine #growing up #life #the age of not believing

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moviesludge · 13 years

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#Bedknobs And Broomsticks #1971 #magic #Ian Weighill #animals #Bedknobs And Broomsticks 500kb

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