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The Singing Ringing Tree [1957]
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List Price: £14.99
eu.lehi.co.uk Price: £6.98
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Network
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Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5027626255145
Format: PAL
Label: Network
Manufacturer: Network
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Network
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2007-03-31
Running Time: 70
Studio: Network
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
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Summary: Happy happy joy joy
Comment: I bought this for my husband for christmas who remembers watching this as a child, so he is absolutely over the moon that this has now become available on dvd. A must have for any child of the fifties or sixties.
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Summary: For kids from the 60s
Comment: Memories of my schooldays in the 60s and 70s when we just caught bits of this film each week on Tales from Europe after school.
Now reproduced in blindingly bright colour it is a joy to see the whole full length film and understand what was going on all those years ago.
The story may not initially interest anyone but afficianados but thrilled all the youngsters around our house when we showed it on a 40 inch screen.
The film is beautifully made with some wildly magical characters such as the wicked dwarf(mega scary when I was a child), a huge goldfish (fantastically unrealistic), a white horse with golden antlers and a prince who turns into a bear in true beauty and the beast style. The action takes place in mountains and canyons where waterfalls turn to ice and snow drifts miraculously appear from nowhere.
For me it was the memories it brought back but there is a moral in the story too. It is a magical and wonderful tale of a very proud princess who learns from her mistakes that gentleness, hard work and kindness are much more rewarding than demanding luxuries at every turn. It is a fabulous story with a very clear message for children and adults too about attaining true happiness and enduring love.
I can watch this again and again which is fortunate as all the kids want to see it repeatedly.
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Summary: cult
Comment: Now live in Australia and I have introduced this film to many kids over here who are totally in love with this and watch it over and over.Think we are all in our late forties early fifties who remember this and for some reason it has a hold on everyone who saw it.In london about five years ago there was a radio programme about it saying there is now a cult following,check a web sight.They were likening it to fascism and really weird stuff but admitted it was crazy fun.Leave CGI behind people,forget expensive productions and wallow in this time old fantasy,kids five six etc will love it.
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Summary: Ridley Scott?
Comment: I loved this as part of the "Tales From Europe" series on telly way, way back when everything was in black and white.
And then I saw Ridley Scott's "Legend", and loved that too. Both versions, both soundtracks, wonderful!
But I was aware, from that very first viewing of Legend that there were echoes of "The Singing Ringing Tree" right throughout the film. Not just the main theme of "Spoilt and Beautiful Princess is Humbled and Learns Better" but the glowing fantasy imagery; horned horses in the snow, deep pools of water, walls of fire. My assumption is that the young Ridley also saw Singing Ringing Tree as a lad and was similarly moved by the lyrical images and the story of love, hope and redemption.
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Summary: A film that puts a number of modern epics to shame
Comment: I only spotted this film on on an off chance - while looking through fantasy dvds and upon reading some reviews decided to give it a try. Being of a younger generation I'd never heard of the singing ringing tree and in spite of it's old fashioned special effects it holds a greater magic than a number of modern epics. It reminded me instantly of Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm in that there is far more sinister element to it, which may be likened to the old fairy tales. It appears to be somewhat of combination of the snow white/rose red story and the original beauty and the beast story with perhaps a little of Rumpelstiltskin added into the mix.
A young prince courts the favour of a beautiful princess, but she refuses his advances until she is brought the singing ring tree. The prince sets off on a quest to find it, travelling to the ends of the earth where he finds a hidden land. There he meets a malicious dwarf who gives him the tree on condition he wins the princesses' love by sunset. If he fails the task he will turn into a bear and reside in the hidden land..
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