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Bedknobs And Broomsticks [1971]
from Walt Disney Home Video
starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson
directed by Robert Stevenson

Features:

• Animated
• PAL

Editorial Review:

Angela Lansbury plays a good witch who uses her powers against the Nazis in World War II and is aided by three children in the effort. This 1971 movie directed by Disney stalwart Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) was never up to the studio's best efforts--the music isn't all that good and the idea just doesn't quite catch on. But Lansbury, David Tomlinson and the late Roddy McDowall are good and there are some clever sequences blending animation and live action, most memorably a soccer game between the kids and some cartoon animals. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Bad Influence
  What looked like fun actually ends up making witch craft look ok for kids. It quite simply is not.

• A Collector DVD for Sure
  This is one of those dvds you can get out any time of year over and over again and it still appeals. Who would have thought combining a witch, a doctor and WWII would create such wonder.
  The characters created by Angela Lansbury (Miss Price the good witch) and David Thomlinson (Dr Amelius Brown)are wonderful and the combination of settings, singing, dancing and animation are very well balanced. Our whole family love this film.

• Lovely, one of their finest live action films!
  Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks is probably one of the greatest films to ever come out of the studio. It is often compared to Mary Poppins and criticized for their similarities, but I however feel that Bedknobs and Broomsticks is an improvement over Mary Poppins, even when Mary Poppins had little to improve. The main reason for Bedknobs and Broomsticks' criticism is due to having been made in the period after Walt Disney's death, in which all of their films were criticized, even when they were superior to... more info

• great fun.
  A childrens film it may have been created , but maturity over the years has developed it into a multi aged morsel. Good , NO - superb acting by Lansbury and Tomlinson ; a decent and believeable storyline ; excellent special effects ( especially for the year ) and very passable music ,make this an essential for anyones DVD library. Special points : Lansbury's singing ( I am suprised she has not ventured into the the field as a female Bing Crosby) ; cameos from Bruce Forsyth and Tessie O'shea ; a very amusing... more info

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