Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Butch Patrick | ... | Milo | |
| Mel Blanc | ... | Officer Short Shrift / Dodecahedron / Demon of Insincerity (voice) | |
| Daws Butler | ... | Whether Man / Senses Taker / Terrible Trivium / Gelatinous Giant (voice) | |
| Candy Candido | ... | Awful DYNN (voice) | |
| Hans Conried | ... | King Azaz / The MathemaGician (voice) | |
| June Foray | ... | Ralph / Faintly Macabre / Princess of Pure Reason (voice) | |
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Patti Gilbert | ... | Princess of Sweet Rhyme (voice) |
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Shepard Menken | ... | Spelling Bee / Chroma The Great (voice) (as Shep Menken) |
| Cliff Norton | ... | Kakofonous A. Dischord / Tollbooth Speaker (voice) | |
| Larry Thor | ... | Tock The Watchdog (voice) | |
| Les Tremayne | ... | Humbug (voice) | |
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Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.
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part live action | flight | child driving a car | close up of eyes | live action animated hybrid |Taglines:
It's an Alphabeautiful Mathemagical New Musical Movie!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
December 1972 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
The Phantom Tollbooth See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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Budget:
$2,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
Production Co:
Chuck Jones Enterprises, MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
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Tock: Only confusing, Milo, when you use a lot to say a little.
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(1969)
Music by Lee Pockriss
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Performed by Hans Conried (uncredited)
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Trivia
CASTLE THUNDER: Heard at every mention of the Castle in the Air earlier in the movie and when the last five Demons of Ignorance merge to create the monster. See more »Goofs
When King Azaz is first seen (in long shot) his costume has the purple and blue colors of the Mathemagician, instead of the correct colors of orange and red. (Noticed by someone's seven-year-old daughter.) See more »Quotes
Milo: I never knew words could be so confusing.Tock: Only confusing, Milo, when you use a lot to say a little.
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Crazy Credits
The closing "THE END" zooms in as the last shot freezes into a still. The closing title (in one line) and "An MGM Picture" appear shortly before fading to black a second later. See more »Soundtracks
Word Market(1969)
Music by Lee Pockriss
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Performed by Hans Conried (uncredited)
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Like Chuck Jones' earlier "Gay Purr-ee," this is a good film for those who are looking for something good, if decidedly different, in family entertainment. Mel Blanc, June Foray, Shepard Menken, etc., contribute their usual outstanding voice work (The scenes with Blanc as "Officer Short Shrift," especially, are a howl!), and the visuals, as one would expect from Jones, are consistently outstanding and imaginative.
Not that the film is without its' faults, by any means. The songs, by veterans Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, range from the clever ("Don't Say There's Nothing to Do in the Doldrums," "Time Is a Gift") to the treacly ("Henceforth and Forthwith"). The moralizing, more pronounced here than it was in the original Norton Juster book, gets to be a bit heavy-handed at times. And, finally, Butch Patrick (Best known as "Eddie Munster" on "The Munsters") plays Milo, the central character, as such a whiney little jerk, at least in the beginning, that it's hard to work up much sympathy for him as the story goes on. Plus, even though he was still short for his age, there was no disguising the fact that he was, in every other way, a fast-maturing fifteen year old, and, thus, just a bit too old for the procedngs.
But, and I have to emphasize this again, don't let you stop you from seeing this movie. The result is more than the sum of its parts, and good, alternative family entertainment is what you get.