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Overview
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Release Date:
9 February 1940 (USA)
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Tagline:
Disney's all-time family classic is back ...No strings attached! [1987 re-release Australia] more
Plot:
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. full summary | full synopsis
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Pinocchio
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Cricket
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Jiminy Cricket
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Conscience
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Fairy
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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(33 articles)
A Japanese superhero whose backside fires bullets. Cool
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"I've Got No Strings"
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Cast
(Cast)| Mel Blanc | ... | Gideon (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Don Brodie | ... | Carnival Barkers (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Walter Catlett | ... | J. Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Marion Darlington | ... | Birds (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Frankie Darro | ... | Lampwick (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Cliff Edwards | ... | Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Dickie Jones | ... | Pinocchio (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Charles Judels | ... | Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Jack Mercer | ... | Rough House Statue (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed) | |
| Patricia Page | ... | Marionettes (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Christian Rub | ... | Geppetto (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Evelyn Venable | ... | The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited) |
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Runtime:
88 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)
Certification:
Denmark:A |
Iceland:L |
Peru:PT |
South Korea:All |
USA:Approved (certificate #4646) (original rating) |
USA:G (re-rating) (1970) |
New Zealand:G |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Canada:F (Ontario) |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
Germany:o.Al. |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U |
Brazil:Livre
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Trivia:
The first animated film to win an Academy Award in a competitive category. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) won an honorary Oscar two years earlier.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Stromboli puts a bag full of money in his pocket, but a few minutes later, it is no longer there.
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Quotes:
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Jiminy Cricket: [after singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"] Pretty, huh? I'll bet a lot of you folks don't believe that, about a wish comin' true, do ya? Well, I didn't, either. Of course, I'm just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.
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Jiminy Cricket: [after singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"] Pretty, huh? I'll bet a lot of you folks don't believe that, about a wish comin' true, do ya? Well, I didn't, either. Of course, I'm just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.
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Soundtrack:
Little Wooden Head
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For it's second full length animated feature, Walt Disney Studios picked the Carlo Collodi children's classic Pinocchio. The wooden puppet boy who turns into flesh and blood because of a heroic deed has been done a few times on screen, but the Disney version remains the standard.
In some of the animated features of recent years we've come full circle in the fact that a lot of well known Hollywood figures have sought to lend their voices to animated productions. Coming to mind immediately are Mel Gibson as Captain John Smith and Eddie Murphy as the donkey in the Shrek movies. It wasn't as chic a thing to do back in Disney's day, still Walt came up with several good ones like young Dickie Jones as Pinocchio, Walter Catlett as J. Worthington Foulfellow, Frankie Darro as Lampwick, and most important Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket.
These folks lend their voices to one of Disney's best musical scores with Catlett making immortal the thespians ballad An Actor's Life For Me, Jones celebrating the fact he's been liberated from all manner of restraint with I've Got No Strings and Cliff Edwards talking about his new responsibilities as the puppet boy's conscience in Give A Little Whistle.
Most important though is the Academy Award given to that most plaintive song of yearning When You Wish Upon A Star as introduced by Cliff Edwards. Edwards was a major performer in the Twenties and early Thirties with his ukulele Ike character and introduced many popular songs like It's Only A Paper Moon and Singing In The Rain. But he had come up on hard times with a lot of substance abuse problems when Walt Disney offered him the part of Jiminy Cricket's voice. The movie Pinocchio and the songs he sang there resurrected his career and even when down and out, Edwards could always get work at the Disney Studio because of Jiminy Cricket's enduring popularity.
Animation never really dates and the best animation in the world was pioneered at Disney Studio. People can see Pinocchio on the same bill as Shrek even today and I daresay the audience would be equally responsive.
And you can appreciate Pinocchio today as much as your grandparents and great grandparents did through the magic of YouTube or Amazon. If not wish upon a star and fate will step in and see you through.