Pinocchio (1940)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Directors:

Hamilton Luske
Ben Sharpsteen

Writers:

Carlo Collodi (story)
Ted Sears (story) ...

Release Date:

9 February 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Music

Tagline:

Disney's all-time family classic is back ...No strings attached! [1987 re-release Australia]

Plot:

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

Plot Keywords:

Pinocchio | Cricket | Jiminy Cricket | Conscience | Fairy

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins

Cast

Mel Blanc	...	Figaro / Donkeys / Gideon / Marionette Soldiers / Monstro (voice) (uncredited)
Don Brodie	...	Carnival Barkers (voice) (uncredited)
Walter Catlett	...	J. Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited)
Marion Darlington	...	Birds (voice) (uncredited)
Frankie Darro	...	Lampwick (voice) (uncredited)
Cliff Edwards	...	Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
Dickie Jones	...	Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Charles Judels	...	Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer	...	Rough House Statue (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Patricia Page	...	Marionettes (voice) (uncredited)
Christian Rub	...	Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)
Evelyn Venable	...	The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Denmark:A | Iceland:L | Peru:PT | South Korea:All | USA:Approved (certificate #4646) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1970) | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:F (Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | Brazil:Livre

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

The song from Pinocchio, "When You Wish Upon A Star" was ranked #7 in the 2004 American Film Institute's List of the "Top Movie Songs of All Time", the highest ranking song on the list among Disney animated films.

Goofs:

Continuity: Gepetto changes appearance several times between "shots" when he first meets the animated Pinocchio, and his night cap disappears and reappears.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Jiminy Cricket: [after singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"] Pretty, huh? I'll bet a lot of you folks don't believe that, about a wish comin' true, do ya? Well, I didn't, either. Of course, I'm just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in You'll Find Out (1940)

Soundtrack:

I've Got No Strings

Important things that we living for a human

Pinocchio is my favorite movie since I was a child. We can learn many important things that we living for a human from this movie. For example, we donft tell a lie, we don't escape toward an easy thing and what we have courage and so on. I'll never forget the goddess of star say One lie leads to another, and you don't cover the lie in the end. I felt that I don't wont to tell a lie in my childhood. My favorite scene is the scene where Pinocchio go help his father Gepetto in the sea. I think that it is brave of him to fight with a monster whale because he helps his father. And I was impressed with cricket of Pinocchio's conscience. He always helps Pinocchio and lead Pinocchio for good way. It is superb what the goddess of star is always watching Pinocchio in the night sky too. I rated this movie at 9/10.