The Adventures of Alice
| The Adventures of Alice | |
|---|---|
Newspaper photograph | |
| Genre | Drama, Family |
| Created by | Lewis Carroll |
| Based on | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Written by | Lewis Carroll, Charles Lefeaux |
| Directed by | Charles Lefeaux |
| Starring |
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| Composer | Antony Hopkins |
| Country of origin | England |
| Production | |
| Producer | Charles Lefeaux |
| Production location | England |
| Editor | John Nash |
| Running time | 55 Minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Television |
| Release | 23 December 1960 |
The Adventures of Alice is a 1960 TV play starring Sonia Dresdel as the evil Red Queen. It was made by BBC Television and screened on 23 December 1960.
Plot
The play is based of the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.[1][2]
Cast
- Sonia Dresdel as Red Queen
- Marian Spencer as White Queen
- Ernest Milton as The Mad Hatter
- Peter Sallis as Tweedledee
- Gillian Ferguson as Alice
- Gordon Davies as Lewis Carroll
- Cyril Shaps as the March Hare
- Carla Challoner as The Dormouse
- Arthur Ridley as The Gryphon, The Unicorn
- Eric Shilling as The Mock Turtle
- Erik Chitty as The Caterpillar, The Lion
- Barrie Cookson as Tweedledum
- Frederick Treves as Red King
- Vivienne Chatterton as The Sheep
- David March as Humpty Dumpty
- Philip Ray as White King
- Geoffrey Bayldon as White Knight
- John Murray Scott as The Creature with a Long Beak
Production
Following the success of Antony Hopkins's opera, "Hands Across the sky" last February, The BBC commissioned him and Charles Lefeaux to write the opera The Adventures of Alice based on the stories by Lewis Carroll.[3]
Reception
Mary Crosier wrote in The Guardian about "the dreamlike fantasy" but called the production "curiously uneven".[4] The film got a lot of praise from critics and audiences when it was released on 23 December 1960 so much so that the film was shown again on television on 7 August 1961 and it wasn't shown again and now the film now lies in the BBC Archives.[5]
References
- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 23 December 1960.
- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". gawby.com.
- ^ "TV & Radio The Adventures of Alice" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Television - by Mary Crosier". The Guardian. 1960-12-24. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". tvbrain.info.