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Title: Wonderful with flaws
Review: There was major talent here - Menzies, Joseph Mankiewicz screenplay, and the cast, some of whom are rendered anonymous by the masks, which are evocative of Tenniel but not mobile enough. The print is quite clear if there are tiny missing frames, as usual with a 30s film (worse I've seen of this is Harpo Marx's gallop over the couch in "Horse Feathers" I think it is, totally chopped up by lost frames). The Alice is actually very good if by necessity older than ideal.I believe Cocteau drew on this or the other way around or both ways. "Belle et Bete" has some of this feel, very very similar. I do wish the UCLA 90 min. print were used, whatever the excuse. Perhaps the French or BFI will put out the complete version for those of us with all-region players. But in the mean time, if you are reading this you will want to get it.
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