Hansel and Gretel (alternatively: Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel) is a 1987 American/Israeli fantasy film, part of the 1980s film series Cannon Movie Tales. It is directed by Len Talan and stars David Warner, Cloris Leachman, Hugh Pollard, Nicola Stapleton. It is a contemporary version of the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel of the Brothers Grimm. Like the other Cannon Movie Tales, the film was filmed entirely in Israel.
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Directed by | Len Talan |
Screenplay by | Nancy Weems, Len Talan |
Based on | Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm |
Produced by | Yoram Globus Menahem Golan |
Starring | David Warner Hugh Pollard Nicola Stapleton Emily Richard Cloris Leachman |
Cinematography | Ilan Rosenberg |
Edited by | Irit Raz |
Music by | Engelbert Humperdinck |
Production company | Golan-Globus Productions |
Distributed by | The Cannon Group, Inc. |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Countries | United States, Israel |
Language | English |
Hansel (Hugh Pollard) and Gretel (Nicola Stapelton) are the offspring of an impoverished woodcutter (David Warner) and his wife (Emily Richard). After being told to leave their home by their mother, Hansel and Gretel wrongly walk into the 'North woods' were they discover a delicious gingerbread house. Unbeknown to them it's a witch named Griselda (Cloris Leachman) that lives there.
Richard Scheib from Moria.co gave it one star and wrote: "Hansel and Gretel is so cheaply produced that you can clearly see the painted cardboard that is supposed to stand in for stone walls in the prefabricated village. The family in their pretty little woodland cottage never in any way look like they are starving or living in poverty – a sense of conviction that is even further done in by the casting of perfectly elocuted English David Warner as supposedly a simple-witted but kind-hearted Mittel-European hayseed farmer. As the witch, Cloris Leachman overacts hideously. The fairytale has been so sanitised and cleaned up that all she does is bake children into gingerbread suspended animation instead of attempting to eat them."[1]
Renee Longstreet of Common Sense Media awarded the film two stars out of five.[2]
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