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Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Roy Snart, Cindy O'Callaghan

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Jonathan

Welcome to what some Disney historians referred to as the “Disney Dark Era” The timeframe between Walt’s death and the Disney Renaissance when executives from other studios came in to take over. Walt left the company to his son-in-law a retired football player because he was used to public spotlight and he was a guy. They didn’t bring in any new talent so the decade of the 70s was them running on auto pilot trying to guess what Walt would have done when really Walt would have innovated. This mixed with changing tastes drove the company almost out of business. There are a few gems in the decade. This and Pete’s Dragon in live action and The Rescuers and Robin Hood (which they used for the animation in this film) for the animation side. It’s also known as the dark period because the early 80s they dipped into horror and made some interesting films.

Youtalkingtome

Ah! That makes so much sense. Thank you! There are some absolutely wild things in this movie, and I am so glad we got the chance to watch it.