An underrated Disney classic, "The Great Mouse Detective" was released in 1986. Though it was a modest commercial success, the film was soon overshadowed by another mouse-centric movie. Former Mouse House animator and Disney's main competition at the time, Don Bluth (along with Steven Spielberg), released "An American Tail" shortly thereafter. Although "The Great Mouse Detective" has largely faded into obscurity, it's definitely a major highlight of Disney's so-called "Dark Age."
The film is based on the series of children's books, "Basil of Baker Street" by Eve Titus and Paul Galdone, which are themselves a riff on the Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle....
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The film is based on the series of children's books, "Basil of Baker Street" by Eve Titus and Paul Galdone, which are themselves a riff on the Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle....
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- 2/18/2022
- by Jamie Gerber
- Slash Film
Mark Harrison Nov 21, 2019
Disney tackled Sherlock Holmes back in 1986, in an animated movie that's more groundbreaking than it's given credit for...
You never miss Sherlock Holmes on screen for long these days. In just the last decade we had BBC's Sherlock, CBS' Elementary, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock: Holmes a Game of Shadows, and Bill Condon's Mr. Holmes, in which Ian McKellen played an aged version of the sleuth.
With such a familiar character, it's no surprise that revisionist takes are in vogue at the moment, and certainly, there are precedents in film and TV. In the early 1970s, author Eve Titus and illustrator Paul Galdone remounted the whole concept for children's literature with the Basil Of Baker Street novels, in which mice stood in for Holmes and Watson, making deductions from the gutters and mouseholes of Victorian London.
Disney's 1986 adaptation of those books, The Great Mouse Detective, is one...
Disney tackled Sherlock Holmes back in 1986, in an animated movie that's more groundbreaking than it's given credit for...
You never miss Sherlock Holmes on screen for long these days. In just the last decade we had BBC's Sherlock, CBS' Elementary, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock: Holmes a Game of Shadows, and Bill Condon's Mr. Holmes, in which Ian McKellen played an aged version of the sleuth.
With such a familiar character, it's no surprise that revisionist takes are in vogue at the moment, and certainly, there are precedents in film and TV. In the early 1970s, author Eve Titus and illustrator Paul Galdone remounted the whole concept for children's literature with the Basil Of Baker Street novels, in which mice stood in for Holmes and Watson, making deductions from the gutters and mouseholes of Victorian London.
Disney's 1986 adaptation of those books, The Great Mouse Detective, is one...
- 7/16/2015
- Den of Geek
When it comes to little kids, scary stories are tough. Finding that balance of fun frightening without freaking them out can be difficult. Just in time for Halloween, Scholastic Storybook Treasures released a new DVD collection Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman...and more spooky Halloween stories, and unfortunately, Scholastic did not hit the right balance.
There are five stories in the collection including Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman by Barbara K. Walker, The Boy with Two Shadows by Margaret Mahy, Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Maris Montes, What's Under My Bed? by James Stevenson, and King of the Cats by Paul Galdone. The first story is a lot like Hansel and Gretel with siblings who are lured into a witch's house, except in this case it is three brothers instead of a brother and sister.
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There are five stories in the collection including Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman by Barbara K. Walker, The Boy with Two Shadows by Margaret Mahy, Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Maris Montes, What's Under My Bed? by James Stevenson, and King of the Cats by Paul Galdone. The first story is a lot like Hansel and Gretel with siblings who are lured into a witch's house, except in this case it is three brothers instead of a brother and sister.
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- 11/7/2011
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
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