The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Name: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Animation, Family
Released: January 6, 1950
Duration: 68 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Bing Crosby, Campbell Grant, Claud Allister, Colin Campbell

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: January 6, 1950 | Approved

Starring: Basil Rathbone, Bing Crosby, Campbell Grant, Claud Allister, Colin Campbell, Eric Blore, J. Pat O'Malley, John McLeish, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, Mel Blanc

Summary: An animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" followed by an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

Director: Clyde Geronimi and Jack Kinney and James Algar

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Animation, Family

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 68 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Split into two sequences, this feature-length cartoon is one of Disney's finest efforts, with attention paid to every animated detail. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Engaging and lively. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Great fun, provided you disregard the spirit of the original as comprehensively as Disney did. More uneven is the story of bumptious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his nemesis the Headless Horseman. It's a trite, chocolate box picture of colonial days - until the Horseman shows up for one of those nightmare sequences with which Uncle Walt so relished terrifying his kiddie audience. Read full review

A.W.

The credits outweigh the debits and Mr. Disney has included enough elements of entertainment to make his newest film package a solid entertainment. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

An uneven doubleheader by Walt Disney, who has combined into one film two dissimilar literary classics: Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The contrast in the handling of the two unrelated stories neatly illustrates some of Disney's outstanding vices & virtues. Read full review

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timone

Apr 30, 2019

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. I never heard of that title when I was a kid cause I was watching the other Disney films years ago and years ago I watched The Wind and the Willows and I loved it and ask for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the story of Ichabod which I've never watchedThe Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. I never heard of that title when I was a kid cause I was watching the other Disney films years ago and years ago I watched The Wind and the Willows and I loved it and ask for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the story of Ichabod which I've never watched when I was kid and teenager. But when I was on YouTube I find the title The adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and all I've ever watched is The Wind in the Willows and what I found surprising is that I hear the narrator telling a story of The Wind in the Willows is the person who stars in Sherlock Holmes. He's name is Basil Rathbone and he a really good job narrating and there is another narrator who is telling a story of Sleepy Hollow I never heard of his voice but I heard Ichabod Crane's voice sounded really like Bing Crosby. And yes I watched the Sleepy Hollow story recently but by god it is scary and I love the song which the boyfriend sings is beautiful and really creepy and I love the song which that Mr. Toad and Cyril sings is We're merrily on our way. These two stories conbind really well just like people says.… Expand

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r96sk

May 15, 2021

Two stories: one good, one less so.

'The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad' is another Disney package film. It's probably one of the better ones to be fair, though still fails to truly entertain. The first story featuring Mr. Toad is fairly enjoyable, while the one with Ichabod starts offTwo stories: one good, one less so.

'The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad' is another Disney package film. It's probably one of the better ones to be fair, though still fails to truly entertain. The first story featuring Mr. Toad is fairly enjoyable, while the one with Ichabod starts off solidly but by its end I found myself less interested.

Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone do well as narrators, while the animation is more than passable. Again, like 1948's 'So Dear to My Heart' from Disney, it's nothing to hate on but I wouldn't class it as anything other than average though.

/copied directly from my Letterboxd review… Expand

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kpmeade

Dec 21, 2018

ichabod you get gold toad you get bronze put theme together you get dusty silver one pretty bad the other pretty good

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