Rumpelstiltskin

starring: Amy Irving, Billy Barty, Clive Revill, John Moulder-Brown, Priscilla Pointer
directed by: David Irving

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No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film FamilyRating: GRelease Date: 10-APR-2007Media Type: DVD

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Rumpelstiltskin is a classic Brothers Grimm tale about greed, magic, and the power of belief. In this 1987 musical version by Cannon Films, the boastful miller declares that his beautiful daughter Katie (Amy Miller) has the power to spin gold out of straw. The gold-loving King (Clive Revill) hears of her talent and demands that she spin gold for him. Katie looks to a magical and greedy elf (Billy Barty) for help, but is forced to pay him with her precious jewelry and the promise of her first-born child. Eventually, Katie's efforts for the King are rewarded with the dream-fulfilling privilege of marrying the Prince, but when their son is born, she must guess the elf's secret name or lose her precious son to the greedy elf. This production features several lovely songs and is wholesome family fun appropriate for children ages 3 and older. --Tami Horiuchi

Product details:

Item number (ASIN): B0009UVCRG
Actor: Amy Irving, Billy Barty, Clive Revill, John Moulder-Brown, Priscilla Pointer
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Brand: IRVING,AMY
Category: DVD
Creator: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Director: David Irving
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792867815
Item Dimensions: Array
Languages: English, English, French, Spanish, French, Spanish
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Original Release Date: April, 1987
Package Dimensions: 58 x 542 x 710 (hundredths-inches)
Package Quantity: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 9, 2005
Running Time: 84, minutes
Theatrical Release Date: April, 1987

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Average Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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- It's ok
I bought this movie because It was from my childhood, but this is not the best movie nor acting abilities.

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- This is O.K.
This is an O.K. musical fairy tale movie. It wasn't bad and it wasn't the best that I have ever seen. It was just O.K. It is somewhere in the medium ball park. It is O.K. Kristy Star Sisk

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- not so great
this is an old video, grainy visuals, very ugly and scary troll for the kids and the music is terrible. I would get the book for the kids since they wont want to sit thru this, and neither will you.

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- "I NEED A MIRACLE"
"I Need A Miracle", sings the beautiful miller's daughter Katie (Amy Irving)-- and she needs that miracle quickly! Because of her father's foolish boasts, she must spin straw into gold, or die! Enter Billy Barty as the mischievious title character/elf who seizes the opportunity to exploit Katie's plight for his own ends. "RUMPELSTILITSKIN" was the first of the popular Cannon Movie Tales series of live-action fairy tale films. Directed and written by David Irving from the Brothers Grimm story , this film is very much a family affair. David directs his mother Priscilla Pointer and sister Amy. Priscilla Pointer plays Queen Grizelda, who seemed very evil to me. Grizelda would sooner see Katie killed than have her son Prince Henry (John Moulder- Brown) marry the poor girl. Clive Revill is the ridiculously pompous and greedy King Mezzer. It is wonderful to see Amy Irving ("CARRIE", "YENTL", "CROSSING DELANCY") in a starring role that gives her so much screen time. It is also nice to have Billy Barty as the title elf, who really is not as generous as he seems. He really wants to steal someone and use them as a slave and cook so he can have fun all day. As King Meezer's greed increases, the price of the elf's help grows higher and higher. He always speaks in rhymes and alternately giggles and screams as he works his magic. Rumpelstiltskin is a very spooky and scary little elf, indeed. The songs by Max Robert, including "Straw Into Gold," "I Need A Miracle", "I'm Greedy," and "One Little Name," are serviceable to the plot but not particularly memorable. I wish the character of Prince Henry had been more developed in the screenplay. John Moulder-Brown has very little to do except hang around and hope Katie won't be killed by his father and mother so that he can marry her. Katie receives invaluable assistance from a talking raven and a supposedly mute servant girl named Emily. Henry should have been a more active Prince and participant on her behalf.

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- the very first of the Cannon MovieTales
RUMPELSTILTSKIN was the very first installment of the Cannon MovieTales series in 1987. These great, family-friendly musicals have become quite popular and beloved over the years, and have now found their way to DVD. "A promise made is a promise kept": that's the moral of this delightful fairytale which tells the story of Katie (Amy Irving), the beautiful miller's daughter who, according to her tale-telling father, can spin straw into gold. Of course, she cannot perform this task, but the greedy King Mezzer (Clive Revill), so taken with the concept of more wealth, demands that Katie spins the straw into strands of gold...or she will die. In the attic of the castle, Katie is visited by a strange little man, who offers to spin the gold...but for a price. Amy Irving shines with a delicate performance; and reveals a lilting singing voice with such musical numbers as "Queen of the Castle", "I Need a Miracle", and "One Little Name". This film was very much a family affair for the Irving clan, because Amy's brother David Irving was the director, with their mother Priscilla Pointer as Queen Grizelda. Clive Revill also turns in a suitably-hammy performance as the King; and Billy Barty commands with his wonderful turn in the title role. Yael Uziely is also very effective as the mute ladies' maid. John Moulder-Brown plays Prince Henry. This was the premiere installment of the Cannon MovieTales series (which were filmed, very economically, back-to-back on location in Israel); however the subsequent titles all went straight to video. A fantastic family musical at a price that's bound to please--and be sure to seek out the other Cannon MovieTales titles! (Single-sided, single-layer disc)