The Adventures of Alice is a 1960 TV play starring Sonia Dresdel as the evil Red Queen. It was made by BBC Television and screened on 23 December 1960.
| The Adventures of Alice | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, Family |
| Created by | Lewis Carroll |
| Based on | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Written by | Lewis Carroll, Charles Lefeaux |
| Directed by | Charles Lefeaux |
| Starring |
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| Composer | Antony Hopkins |
| Country of origin | England |
| Production | |
| Producer | Charles Lefeaux |
| Production location | England |
| Editor | John Nash |
| Running time | 70 Minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Television |
| Release | 23 December 1960 |
Cast
edit- Sonia Dresdel as Red Queen
- Marian Spencer as White Queen
- Ernest Milton as The Mad Hatter
- Peter Sallis as Tweedledee
- Gillian Ferguson as Alice
- Gordon Davies as Lewis Carroll
- Cyril Shaps as the March Hare
- Carla Challoner as The Dormouse
- Arthur Ridley as The Gryphon/The Unicorn
- Eric Shilling as The Mock Turtle
- Erik Chitty as The Caterpillar/The Lion
- Barrie Cookson as Tweedledum
- Frederick Treves as Red King
- Vivienne Chatterton as The Sheep
- David March as Humpty Dumpty
- Philip Ray as White King
- Geoffrey Bayldon as White Knight
- John Murray Scott as The Creature with a Long Beak
Plot
editThe play is based of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.[1][2]
Production
editFollowing the success of Antony Hopkins's opera, "Hands Across the sky" last February, The BBC commissioned him and Charles Lefeaux to write the opera The Adventures of Alice based on the stories by Lewis Carroll.[3]
Reception
editMary Crosier wrote in The Guardian about "the dreamlike fantasy" but called the production "curiously uneven".[4] The film got a lot of praise from critics and audiences when it was released on 23 December 1960 so much so that the film was shown again on television on 7 August 1961 and it wasn't shown again and now the film lies in the TV Archive.[5]
References
edit- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 23 December 1960.
- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". gawby.com.
- ^ "TV & Radio The Adventures of Alice" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Television - by Mary Crosier". The Guardian. 1960-12-24. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
- ^ "The Adventures of Alice (1960)". tvbrain.info.