“The Wind in the Willows” is a terrific piece of animation — one of the best of the Disney Studio from the 1940s. Originally released as the front half of the 1949 theatrical feature “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad,” I always felt that Wind in the Willows could have easily stood as a full feature length film on it’s own. It has a gentle comforting style of humor not unlike the ’60s’ Winnie the Pooh featurettes, but then climaxes in a thrilling train chase and the mayhem-in-the-manor fight with the weasels, one of the masterpieces of action staging. If you ever wondered where those weasel characters in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” were originally from, they are from this great film. This new DVD contains the “featurette” version, with it’s own opening title sequence as re-released theatrically, and as seen on the Wonderful World of Disney TV series.
Sound: Greek, English, Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian
Subtitles: Greek, English, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian
