Alice in Wonderland

Starring: Sellers, Peter and Gielgud, John

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Miller, Jonathan
• Starring: Sellers, Peter, Gielgud, John
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Curiouser and Curiouser

As with many productions of Hamlet, there are also many productions of Alice. Some productions, such as the Disney version, chose all the fluff and left out all the complexity and depth of the story, missing the point completely. This production, “The Wednesday Play: Alice in Wonderland (1966 BBC TV episode), attempts to put back some of the meaning and the feel of the book (with a tad of improvising) by presenting a more Victorian dream-like state. Due to the year and the media, the presentation is in monochrome, but it works; as it turns out, because the presentation could not rival the engravings from the book, the monochrome was a purposeful choice to give the film a Victorian feel. Just the correct actor was picked for each Lewis Carroll character. Director / Producer Jonathan Miller cast Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice, as she matched his vision of the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford. My favorite character is Mock Turtle, played well by Sir John Gielgud, where much of the original dialogue was left in. An added surprise was the musical background by Ravi Shankar at the height of his popularity. The sound of the sitar blended in well with the time of the story and the outdoor insect environment. The commentary by the director, Jonathan Miller, helps explain the stark differences of this production.