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    Alice in Wonderland (1966)

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    Despising the Disney take, Jonathan Miller set out to de-anthropomorphise the story of Alice In Wonderland by returning to Dodgson’s mathematical logic and Victorian values for this BBC drama.

    Stripping away the masks and costumes, he allowed the audience to see Wilfrid Brambell’s White Rabbit, Peter Cook’s hammy Mad Hatter, Michael Redgrave’s irritable Caterpillar, Peter Sellers’s goonish King of Hearts and John Gielgud’s sweetly melancholic Mock Turtle.

    He also invested the action with a somnambulant melancholy that made adulthood seem forbidding.

    Yet 14-year-old Anne-Marie Mallik’s Alice is anything but a waif, as she gives as good as she gets during a progress whose trance-like oddity is reinforced by Dick Bush’s deep-focus monochrome photography and Ravi Shankar’s sitar score.

    Squarely aimed at grown-ups, the film was commissioned for television by the BBC as a centenary celebration and screened after 9 pm, well after most children’s bedtime.

    Alice
    Anne-Marie Mallik
    Alice’s sister
    Jo Maxwell-Muller
    White Rabbit
    Wilfrid Brambell
    Mouse
    Alan Bennett
    Dodo
    Finlay Currie
    Caterpillar 
    Michael Redgrave
    Duchess
    Leo McKern
    Mad Hatter
    Peter Cook
    March Hare
    Michael Gough
    Dormouse
    Wilfred Lawson
    Queen of Hearts
    Alison Leggatt
    King of Hearts
    Peter Sellers
    Mock Turtle
    John Gielgud
    Lory
    Geoffrey Dunn
    Duck
    Mark Allington
    Eaglet
    Nicholas Evans
    Peppercook
    Avril Elgar
    Knave of Hearts
    Peter Eyre
    Gryphon
    Malcolm Muggeridge

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