Have You Got Any Castles

Release Date: 1938-06-25

Overview: Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.

Rating: 6.411 / 10

Cast

Mel Blanc

as Town Crier / Praying Baby / Rip Van Winkle / Emily Host / Alladin (voice) (uncredited)

Delos Jewkes

as Old King Cole (voice) (uncredited)

Tedd Pierce

as W. C. Fields (voice) (uncredited)

Georgia Stark

as Whistler's Mother / Heidi (voice) (uncredited)

Crew

Frank Tashlin - Director
Leon Schlesinger - Producer
Jack Miller - Story
Ken Harris - Animation

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

A rather annoying cuckoo clock summons us all to the town crier who rather monotonically introduces us to figures from fictional history. Amongst them are "Fu Manchu", "Frankenstein" and "Dr. Jekyll" ...