The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The girl's vengeful ex-beau Brom Bones decides to scare Ichabod out of Sleepy Hollow by filling the impressionable teacher's brain with stories about the ghostly Headless Horseman--who of course makes an appearance that very night! The second half of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is based on the "Toad of Toad Hall" stories from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind and the Willows. The aristocratic but childish Mr. Toad loves motorcars, but his affection leads him to a jail term when he is accused of stealing an automobile. It's up to Toad's faithful friends to break Toad out of jail and expose the real crooks. One of Disney's better "omnibus" cartoon features, Ichabod and Mr. Toad is enhanced by the narrative skills of Bing Crosby in the Ichabod segment and Basil Rathbone in the Mr. Toad sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Screen: Pan and Scan
• Features:
  • Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Destination trivia game
  • "Lonesome Ghosts" cartoon
  • "The Merrily Song" singalong song
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow DVD storybook
  • French and Spanish-language tracks

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Bing Crosby - Narrator ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
       Basil Rathbone - Narrator ("The Wind in the Willows")
       Eric Blore - Mr. Toad
       Pat O'Malley - Cyril Proudbottom
       John Floyardt
       Colin Campbell - Mole
       Campbell Grant - Angus MacBadger
       Claud Allister - Rat
       Leslie Denison - Judge
       Arabella Fields - Annelle Johnston
       Edmond Stevens - Second weasel
       Leslie Denison - first weasel
       Alec Harford - Winkie

• Director:

  James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney

• Producer:

  Walt Disney

• Screenwriter:

  Homer Brightman, Winston Hibler, Erdman Penner, Harry Reeves, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears

• Book Author:

  Kenneth Grahame

• Songwriter:

  Frank Churchill, Gene de Paul, Don Raye

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Oliver Wallace

• Songwriter:

  Charles Wolcott

• Animation Director:

  Ollie Johnston

• Short Story Author:

  Washington Irving, Kenneth Grahame

• Animation Director:

  Frank Thomas