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Bookmark this pageAlice in Wonderland (1933)
Director: Norman Z McLeod
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From Time Out Film Guide
Curiouser and curiouser, and that's not the half of it. With Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper as the White Knight and WC Fields as Humpty Dumpty, great things might be expected, but something went disastrously wrong in the pot. Most of the blame must rest with McLeod, whose incredibly cackhanded direction piles on the whimsy by the bucket-load and can't come to grips with the absurdity at all. Carroll may not have envisaged Alice as being totally unsullied by the ways of the world, but as played by Charlotte Henry she's as pert a piece of jailbait as ever fell down a rabbit-hole. Even the backdrops look as if they'd been lifted from Donald McGill postcards.Author: JP
Cast & crew
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Cast: Charlotte Henry, Gary Cooper, WC Fields, Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton, Edna May Oliver, Charles Ruggles full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 79 mins
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