Search - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad on DVD

MPAA Rating: G Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1949 DVD Release: 10/03/2000 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 8 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Members Wishing: 62 Genres: Fantasy, Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy

Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The girl's vengeful ex-beau Brom Bones decides to scare Ichabod out of Sleepy Hollow by filling the impressionable teacher's brain with stories about the ghostly Headless Horseman--who of course makes an appearance that very night! The second half of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is based on the "Toad of Toad Hall" stories from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind and the Willows. The aristocratic but childish Mr. Toad loves motorcars, but his affection leads him to a jail term when he is accused of stealing an automobile. It's up to Toad's faithful friends to break Toad out of jail and expose the real crooks. One of Disney's better "omnibus" cartoon features, Ichabod and Mr. Toad is enhanced by the narrative skills of Bing Crosby in the Ichabod segment and Basil Rathbone in the Mr. Toad sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bing Crosby - Narrator ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
Basil Rathbone - Narrator ("The Wind in the Willows")
Eric Blore - Mr. Toad
Pat O'Malley - Cyril Proudbottom
John Floyardt

Disney's amalgamation of -The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and -The Wind in the Willows, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are no subtitles, but the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include a DVD storybook, a trivia game, a cartoon, and a singalong song. This is a very enjoyable family title from Disney/Buena Vista. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide