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Shinbone Alley (1971)
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7 April 1971 (USA)
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It's sophisticated enough for kids, simple enough for adults!
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A newspaperman jumps in the river to drown himself. He reappears as a cockroach, who finds he can still...
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(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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I remember seeing this as a rental when I was 7 years old. My mother had to go to work and must have picked it out just by glancing at the cover, figuring it would be a cute kiddie cartoon to leave me with.
Though most of the movie from that time became fuzzy to me as I got older, I always remembered the little bug, Archy and his saucy feline friend. A bittersweet number sang by Archy especially stayed with me and led to me to searching the web to find out what the heck that movie was. I was so glad to find it again!
15 years after my initial viewing, I appreciate now how this movie seems to wear many hats at once; it's style being both light/fun and on occasion dipping into the deep, poetic and somewhat dark undertones of the human psyche. The characters don't try to hide who they really are and it makes the film feel more like an art project sometimes rather than a movie aimed at a particular target audience.
Reading the collection of Don Marquis' works of Archy and Mehitabel gave me a little more understanding of the title characters, but this movie could probably also stand-alone well enough.
Carol Channing was a perfect cast for the freewheeling Mehitabel, with a voice seesawing from scratchy-sweet to downright wretched and it fits great. Eddie Bracken will quickly have you sympathizing with Archy, whom though tries to wear the cover of an analyst or some unimportant bug just relating the events of the world around him, comes off very sensitively with the emotional tones supplied by Bracken.
I am aware there seems to be two versions of this movie floating around. I have a VHS of what seems to be a "cut" version..and a full version DVD. I would suggest the DVD for your viewing option, as the VHS leaves out a very heartfelt moment at the end of the movie which I don't agree should have been cut out. :)