VividSimon Simply Perfect

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Hitchcoc You've got Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, and on and on. Granted, they are hidden in costumes, but sometimes it's nice that someone at least try a film like this. This is the classic story of the trip into Wonderland by a bored little girl. I really liked her character. The Lewis Carrol Alice wasn't a beauty. She had real character in her face. The costumers put together a literal obstacle course of figure for Alice to conquer. I was enthralled as she made her way from one adventure to the next, one verbal joust after another. We know that much of the book and the movies are nonsensical, at least in a conventional way. So words become so important. I've not seen this film since I was in middle school in the early sixties and it's availability is always in question. But I was able to do a little construction on You Tube to regain the flavor of it.

GManfred Enjoyed Paramount's version of Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice In Wonderland". It was an excellent idea to have different Hollywood stars of the day in the various roles in the story. I tried to guess who the stars were before looking them up on the website; some were easy and others were harder depending how heavily made up they were. Some of them you had to guess by identifying the voice. I particularly enjoyed W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Edward Everett Horton as the Mad Hatter, and I especially enjoyed his duet with Charlie Ruggles (the March Hare) as they sang 'Twinkle Twinkle little Bat". Truly inspired.Having said all that, I thought the story was presented as a series of blackouts and lacked continuity. It simply went from segment to segment and did not flow as a seamless narrative. As such, it had a lifeless quality and felt as though crew and stagehands were just out of camera range - which they probably were. Nevertheless, I found it enjoyable and an example of the type of magic which only Hollywood can conjure up.

bkoganbing One of the most unusual projects ever undertaken by a studio was done by Paramount in 1933. Casting young Charlotte Henry in the title role of Lewis Carroll's beloved fantasy, Paramount then cast over 25 of their best known faces, apparently whoever was not working on another film at the moment, as the fantasy creatures she meets on her journey.Today, these same people would just be called on to lend their voices for animation. In fact in the middle, there is an animated version of The Walrus and the Carpenter, showcased for Henry by Jack Oakie and Roscoe Karns as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Walt Disney later took that easier route in the Fifties with his animated version. But these stars are mostly unrecognizable beneath all that makeup.Yet the voices of such people as Ned Sparks, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant are unmistakable. People like Edna May Oliver, May Robson, and Edward Everett Horton can be recognized. Quite frankly it was a stroke of genius to cast Horton as The Mad Hatter. It's a tossup between Horton and Ed Wynn in the Disney version as to who was the zanier. Horton is probably my favorite from the film, but running a close second is Cary Grant, hidden underneath all that Mock Turtle makeup. This was at the beginning of his career when he was not an icon as of yet. Probably even five years later Paramount might have had trouble casting him that way. His Mock Turtle song and Mock Turtle crying are something to see and hear.Paramount almost closed down during the early Thirties because of the Depression. Alice In Wonderland lost money badly at the box office and got tepid reviews. Seen today it's not as bad as all that and really kind of interesting in a way.

dbrown-77 This film seems very obscure given its production values and amazing cast - I only came across it while scanning Cary Grant's filmography. It seems mostly lost to time.The film edits together both Alice books into a single narrative (such as it is; the plot remains very episodic). The special effects are still impressive. It made me wonder what the reaction of the public was to this film in 1933 - seems like it would be a major spectacle like the "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" is to present generations.Part of the fun is seeing major stars together in the same movie (Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields) and being exposed to many other actors who may have been stars in their day and have disappeared from modern memory.