Advantages: This is the perfect fairy story movie! Disadvantages: You may enjoy it more than yor children!
...its on DVD everywhere for the bargain bin priceof £5.99 and its worth every penny and more!
I used to have this on VHS when I was a kid at my Grandparents and by watch it I mean over & over & over! Now its one I can watch with my 7 year old sister... and she loves it too.
The tale is "a musical of the Cinderella story". So yes you have the Prince, Cinders and a wicked Stepmother, fairy Godmother etc etc you know the gist! Except maybe you dont... ... ...in Austria (and pinewood studios) the landscapes are stunning the snowy vast hills in the opener are beautiful. The costumes are beyond brilliant and they just make the film even more magical!
The cast is brilliant. Gemma Craven, whatever happened to her, plays good old Cinderella. Shes brilliant, brunette, sweet innocent but with severe guts and though no modern Cinderella (Drew tried and failed in Ever After) shes not the sap you get in most films ...
simoon69 22.03.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Slipper And The Rose (DVD)
Advantages: A wonderful retelling of an old classic Disadvantages: None!!
The Slipper and the Rose is the 1976 retelling of the Cinderella story, but with a bit of a twist. In most versions of the tale, the handsome Prince is a fey and lazy young man who decides he must take a wife but, in this version the Prince (played by Richard Chamberlain) is a sporty and energetic Prince who is forced by his father the King (Micheal Hordern) to take a wife to ensure the continuation of the family line and avert the very real threat ... ...oganise a ball, inviting all the Princesses in Europe to be looked over by his son. Grudgingly and with protests the Prince fulfills his duty by attending the ball.
Unfortunately, not many of Europe's Princesses wanted to come to the ball, so the King invites the local nobility as well, so as not to have the palace half-empty. Included in these are a local family made up of a rich widow (Margaret Lockwood) and her two daughters (Sherrie Hewson and ...
staceyvm 22.09.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Slipper And The Rose (DVD)
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Production Year: 1999 - Music / Performing Arts - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough
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