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BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS

Category: Edition 1974

Synopsis
An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain.

Original Title BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Italian Title POMI D'OTTONE E MANICI DI SCOPA
Category Out of competition
Section Out of Competition
Tipology Animation, Feature Film
Duration 117'
Production Year 1971
Nationality USA
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Story Mary Norton
Screenplay Ralph Wright
Based on the book "The Magic Bedknob & Bonfires and Broomsticks"
by Mary Norton
Director of photography Frank Phillips
Editor Cotton Warburton
Special Effects Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Production Design John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Costume Design Bill Thomas, Shelby Anderson, Chuck Keehne, Emily Sundby
Music Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal
Main cast Dame Angela Lansbury
David Tomlinson
John Ericson
Ian Weighill
Cindy O'Callaghan
Roy Snart

 regista robert stevensonROBERT STEVENSON
Robert Stevenson (1905) is an English film writer and director. After directing a number of British films, including "King Solomon's Mines" (1937), he was given a contract by David O. Selznickand moved to Hollywood in the 1940s. He ended up directing 19 films for the Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical "Mary Poppins", for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson was nominated for Best Director. With Disney, he also directed the first two Herbie films, "The Love Bug" (1968) and "Herbie Rides Again" (1974), as well as "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971).

 

production
Walt Disney Productions
(USA)

Italian distribution
CIC
(USA)