1933 adaption of "Alice In Wonderland" has to be the strangest one.

[Crowman2009]

Mainly because of Cary Grant's crying mock turtle scene, and that party towards the end that had the leg of lamb with a face.

[Wednesdays]

1. IMHO, that story is incompatible with motion pictures

All of the film versions, including the Disney animated and live action versions, register a "meh" at best.

And it's not because of its fantasy elements or anything like that. It's because Lewis Carroll told those stories to children first, then recollected them, wrote them down and published them. In other words, the books are really collections of short stories strung together, and therefore lack a long smooth storyline that a good feature movie needs.

[appalachiablue]

2. Bizarre, don't know how I never knew of this as much as I like films

[Crowman2009]

3. Well it wasn't released on DVD until 2010.

It's also available for purchase or rent on Amazon Prime as well. Not sure when it will be on TCM.

[appalachiablue]

4. Tx for the resources, I'll check it out. Bizarre but interesting,

the story and artistic aspects.

[Crowman2009]

5. Speaking of TCM, the screenwriter for this movie was Ben Mankiewicz's great uncle.

[Crowman2009]

6. Cary Grant and his Mock Turtle.

Enjoy!

[appalachiablue]

7. That's wild, my family will love this funky 'Alice' version if we ever

get to see it. We're w/o cable now (lost Dish) and the TCM withdrawal is fierce. Looking into other venues and dread it; heard good things about Spectrum, and want to explore Criterion. I enjoy Ben M.'s commentary, I didn't know he spent time in DC when young I think.

Here's shot of Cary- what a rogue- playing a backwoodsman in the forgettable 1940 film, 'The Howards of Virginia' about a Tidewater, Va. family in the 18th c. One of his worst performances and films so I've read. Years ago I saw it and it's pretty bad. The only redeeming quality is that it features prominent historic buildings around Colonial Williamsburg where it was filmed. My mom was there and she said it was a big deal.

[Crowman2009]

8. Like I said before, the 1933 adaption is available for purchase on DVD and is available to rent on..

...Amazon Prime. Also, iTunes as well.

[Crowman2009]

9. Found a free copy on DailyMotion.

The scene I keep yapping about is around the 41:00 mark. Enjoy!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrqecd

[appalachiablue]

10. Will keep that in mind, I've used Amazon for movies as well.