Have You Got Any Castles? poster

Have You Got Any Castles?( 1938)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Mel Blanc

      Town Crier / Praying Baby / Rip Van Winkle / Emily Host / Alladin

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      Delos Jewkes

      Old King Cole

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      Tedd Pierce

      W. C. Fields

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      Georgia Stark

      Whistler's Mother / Heidi

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Mar 17 2024
    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" - but they are not so menacing after all as they indulge in something akin to the dance of the "Sugar Plum Fairy". That's the start of our ensuing jolly and quite innovative trawl through a library of books that gives the animators an excuse to use the titles as some creative inspiration for the drawings and for the musicians to imaginatively score along to, too. I especially liked "Whistler's Moth...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • cartoon
    • snake charmer
    • musical
    • prison escape
    • musketeer
    • book comes to life
    • short film