Disney's Halloween Treat

Video
1984
Unrated
47m

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Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."

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Bobby Driscoll

Peter Pan
(archive footage)
(voice)

Peggy Lee

Si
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(voice)
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Bing Crosby

Cate Bauer

Perdita
(archive footage)
(voice)

Kathryn Beaumont

Wendy Darling
(archive footage)
(voice)

Billy Bletcher

Cat Prosecutor
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(voice)

Adriana Caselotti

Snow White
(archive footage)
(voice)

John Collins

John Darling
(archive footage)
(voice)

Pinto Colvig

Goofy
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Hans Conried

Captain Hook
(archive footage)
(voice)

Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse
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(voice)

Hal Douglas

Narrator

Verna Felton

Aunt Sarah
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Marcellite Garner

Minnie Mouse
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Betty Lou Gerson

Cruella De Vil
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Lucille La Verne

Queen
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Junius Matthews

Archimedes
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Clarence Nash

Donald Duck
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Trivia
In 1983, this program would serve as the inspiration for A Disney Halloween, which aired in 1981, and ran on the Disney Channel for many years (it also contained footage of Disney's Greatest Villains). It would open and close with the same theme song as this one, as well as feature the colorized version of "The Skeleton Dance".

Quotes
Narrator: There was a mean chapter in history when cats were condemned and persecuted, a dark age, when the world was filled with strange fears and superstitions. It was believed that evil traveled the land in human forms and thousands of innocent people were hanged or burnt at the stake for witchcraft or sorcery. They were condemned by the words of the ignorant, spreading through towns and villages, twisting and turning into fantastic and monsterous tales. These tales became known as legends, one of them held that anyone or anything who traveled by night was an evil spirit and to blame for any sickness in the community.

Connections
Edited from The Magical World of Disney: The Great Cat Family (1956)

Soundtracks
Disney's Halloween Treat
Lyrics by Galen Brandt
Music by John Debney

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Featured review

7/10

Halloween with many Disney friends

My family has this special recorded on tape, and we've had it for a long time. I remember watching it quite frequently because you just don't see clips from Disney movies as much as you can today. I especially like the clip from The Sword in the Stone where Merlin and Madam Mim engage in a wizards duel. That still cracks me up! I also enjoyed the Peter Pan clip when I was a kid, even though I'm not a huge fan of the movie itself.

After watching it again recently, I'd have to say that my favorite parts of the special are the showings of The Old Mill and Donald Duck & the Gorilla. Both cartoons are quite different as The Old Mill is an early Fantasia-like segment that is beautiful while Donald Duck & the Gorilla is simply a hilarious Donald short. Other notable cartoons include Lonesome Ghosts and a clip from Pluto's Judgment Day.

However, I have to say that Disney's Halloween Treat just seemed to drag on for a while. I was expecting the standard hour-long special, but it actually goes past an hour and a half (which is usually longer than most Disney movies)! I was also in a bit of a hurry when I watched this so I was eager for it to end. While the villains segment was kind of neat with a very different looking Magic Mirror (it sounded, and may have been played, by the same person who voiced Captain Hook), it just seemed to stretch out too long, talking about numerous villains. I mean, did we really need to look into the villain of The Aristocats? I thought that was unnecessary.

I also didn't really care for the last cartoon, Trick or Treat, starring Donald Duck, my favorite character. In this cartoon, he is surprisingly mean and there aren't nearly as many funny moments as there are in Donald Duck & the Gorilla. So all in all, this is still a good special if you ever get a chance to see it. My main recommendation though is if this movie can be edited somewhat, maybe down to an hour. Then maybe you can see it more often on the Disney Channel or even ABC.

My IMDb Rating: 7/10. My Yahoo! Grade: B (Good)