Product Details
- Starring: Peter Sallis, Ian Carmichael, Richard Pearson (II), Michael Hordern, David Jason
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Mark Hall (III), Chris Taylor (VI)
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- EAN: 9786304176788
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- Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304176783
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- Label: Hbo Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Hbo Home Video
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- Release Date: 1996-10-01
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- Studio: Hbo Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1985
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- Title: Wind in Willows: Summer Escapades
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- UPC: 026359132834
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Product Description: You'll find yourself scanning the credits to make sure Pee-Wee Herman isn't voicing Mr. Toad, because the green creature's contagious laugh shrieks throughout the three stories that make up Summer Escapades, part of a quartet of videos based on The Wind in the Willows, the classic Kenneth Grahame book. There's "Toad Photographer," in which the original Mr. Pighead slowly (and we're talking pacing here) sort of learns a lesson about vanity. There's Toad starring again in "The Great Golfing Gamble," in which he almost loses his palatial home in a bet with the ever-malevolent weasels. By the time you get to "The Grand Annual Show," a county fair for these extraordinary Claymation creatures, you'll be entranced by the simple plots, grand staging, and quiet humor. Is that The Wind in the Willows, or the sound of your sighing as it ends? --Valerie J. Nelson
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