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Shinbone Alley (1971)
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7 April 1971 (USA) moreTagline:
It's sophisticated enough for kids, simple enough for adults!Plot:
A newspaperman jumps in the river to drown himself. He reappears as a cockroach, who finds he can still... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Interesting use of animation effects more (15 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Carol Channing | ... | Mehitabel (voice) | |
| Eddie Bracken | ... | Archy (voice) | |
| Alan Reed | ... | Big Bill (voice) (as Allen Reed Sr.) | |
| John Carradine | ... | Tyrone T. Tattersall (voice) | |
| Hal Smith | ... | Freddie the Rat / Prissy Cat (voice) | |
| Joan Gerber | ... | Penelope the Fat Cat / Ladybugs of the Evening (voice) | |
| Ken Sansom | ... | Rosie the Cat (voice) | |
| Sal Delano | ... | Beatnik Spider (voice) | |
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| Byron Kane | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
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The animation is certainly different. Early- and pre-cinema enthusiasts will recognise some of the psychedelic effects as magic lantern chromotropes, and there are shades of Georges Melies in some of the sequences. Carol Channing is brilliant as Mehitabel! Good jazz-like sound track.