USA, 1971
117m
35mm film, Technicolor, 1.66:1
3 channel stereo, English, German
An American fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson. It has sequences that combine live-action with animation.
Plot Summary
During World War II, English children, Charlie, Carrie and Paul Rawlins are evacuated from London to live with apprentice witch Eglantine Price. She turns a bed knob into a device that allows them to travel and they end up back in London where they meet Emelius Browne, the former headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Together they find a way to cast the Substitutiary Locomotion spell, which brings inanimate objects to life.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
© MCMLXXI [1971] Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney Productions presents
Produced by: Bill Walsh
Screenplay by: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
Animation Story: Ralph Wright, Ted Berman
Based on the Book by: Mary Norton
Director of Photography: Frank Phillips
Film Editor: Cotton Warburton
Music and Lyrics by: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Sound Mixer: Dean Thomas
Costumes Designed by: Bill Thomas
Make-up: Robert J. Schiffer
Hair Stylist: La Rue Matheron
Special Effects: Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Animation Director: Ward Kimball
Art Directors: John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw
Cast
Angela Lansbury (Miss Price)
David Tomlinson (Emelius)
Roddy McDowall (Mr Jelk)
Sam Jaffe (Bookman)
John Ericson (Col. Heller)
Bruce Forsyth (Swinburne)
Tessie O'Shea (Mrs Hobday)
Arthur E. Gould-Porter (Capt. Greer)
Ben Wrigley (Portobello Rd. workman)
Reginald Owen (Gen. Teagler)
Cyril Delevanti (elderly farmer)
Rick Traeger, Manfred Lating (German sergeants)
John Orchard (vendor)
Ian Weighill (Charlie)
Roy Snart (Paul)
Cindy O'Callaghan (Carrie)
Robert Holt (voice of codfish)
Lennie Weinrib (voice of secretary bird/lion)
Dal McKennon (voice of bear)
Alternative Titles
Ágygömb és seprűnyél – Hungarian title
L'apprentie sorcière – French, French Canadian title
L'aprenenta de bruixa – Catalan Spanish title
Beddokazari to hôki – Japanese title
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: 25th Anniversary Special Edition
La bruja novata – Spanish title
Galki od lózka i kije od miotly – Polish title
Heksen en bezemstelen – Dutch title
Hokkuspokkus taikaluudalla – Finnish video title
Hokus pokus kosteskaft – Danish title
Hokus pokus kosteskaft – Norwegian title
Magisses kai skoupoxyla – Greek title
A Meiga novata – Gallegan Spanish title
Pomi d'ottone e manici di scopa – Italian title
Sängknoppar och kvastskaft – Swedish title
Se a Minha Cama Voasse… – Portuguese title
Se Minha Cama Voasse – Brazilian title
Sihirli Formül – Turkish title
Die tollkühne Hexe in ihrem fliegenden Bett – West German title
Travesuras de una bruja – Argentine, Peruvian title
Μάγισσες και Σκουπόξυλα – Greek title
Вещицата с летящото легло – Bulgarian title
Набалдашник и метла – Soviet Russian title
Links
Extracts included in
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003)
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008)
Backstage at Disney (1983)
The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (1991)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)
Disney Sing-Along-Songs: You Can Fly (1988)
Disney through the Decades (2001)
Disneyland 60th Anniversary TV Special (2016)
Disneyland: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1987)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History – 1970's (2009)
That Loveable Bug (2003)
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers – Bedknobs and Broomsticks (2001)
The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985)
References
Books
Film Review 1972-1973 by F. Maurice Speed p.212
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.29 – credits
Trick Cinematography by R.M. Hayes pp.202-203
