Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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Directed by (View all)

Wolfgang Reitherman

Hamilton Luske

Starring (View all)

Mary Costa
Princess Aurora

Bill Shirley
Prince Phillip

Eleanor Audley
Maleficent

Verna Felton
Flora / Queen Leah

Barbara Luddy
Merryweather

Barbara Jo Allen
Fauna

Taylor Holmes
King Stefan

Bill Thompson
King Hubert

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Erdman Penner
(story adaptation)

Charles Perrault

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Review of Sleeping Beauty

14 years ago at Jul 10 22:56

Joshua "LF"

1 vote

Sleeping Beauty strikes me as a rather straight forward movie. There is little in this movie that will strike the viewer as unexpected. Yet, perhaps that's why Sleeping Beauty is still loved to this day, it's pure simplicity and basic story telling.

Sleeping Beauty is a tale we all know. Princess Aurora is cursed by classic Disney villain, Maleficent. The curse states that the prin... read more

Sleeping Beauty

10 years, 10 months ago at Sep 25 21:00

JxSxPx

1 vote

Personally, Sleeping Beauty is the greatest achievement in the Disney canon, as far as narrative features are concerned. Nothing has come close to matching the sheer visual audacity, invention, beauty, and scope of the film. It’s a densely populated film, and any still from the film could be framed and hung in a museum. It is a truly glorious spectacle to behold. Uncle Walt’s reoccurring ... read more

A classic

10 years, 5 months ago at Feb 20 9:32

johanlefourbe

1 vote

Even though it might be surprising, from the 3 classic Disney fairy tales ('Snow White', 'Cinderella' and this feature), this movie is actually easily my favorite one. Indeed, the animation is just gorgeous, even after all these years, it has one of the best soundtracks ever delivered by Disney and even the songs worked for me. Obviously, Maleficent was such a great villain, one of their very best... read more

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Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goodnatured - but not too bright - fairies.

Release date: 30 October 1959
UPC: 786936213645

Tags: Animation (42), Disney (32), Fantasy (25), Romance (22), Fairy Tale (17), 1950s (13), Musical (12), 1959 (12), Family (11), Animated (9), Adventure (6), Kids (6), Witch (6), (6), Magic (5), Cartoon (4), Curse (4), Childrens (4), Dragon (4)

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