Sleeping Beauty (Fully Restored Limited Edition)
 | Walt Disney's MasterpieceDirected by Clyde Geronimi Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy Walt Disney Home Video, 1959, VHS Tape Customer Rating: 322 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. It's not really all that much about the title character — how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here. And Malificent's castle, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. — David Kronke
Title: Sleeping Beauty (Fully Restored Limited Edition) (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)
Sales Rank: 24 in VHS
Actor: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video, 1997-09-16, Theatrical Release: 1959-01-29
Format: Animated, Color, Limited Edition, THX, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Running Time: 75 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches, 0.38 pounds
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- I received my movie in a timely manner and it's great!!! My lil lady gonna love this for xmas.. Thank you :)… More reviews
- Brought me right back to the first time I saw it in NYC!
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- Great Classic
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- a classic
- I love this movie~ Sleeping Beauty is a must-have for any disney collector and this is a great edition to have!… More reviews
