THE SINGING RINGING TREE
If this was released now, it’d be memed to hell.
★★★☆☆
RELEASED OUT NOW! 1957 | U | Blu-ray
►Director Francesco Stefani Cast Christel Bodenstein
►Charles Hans Vogt, Eckart Dux, Richard Kruger
BLU-RAY DEBUT A staple of the BBC children’s slot in the ’60s and ’70s, this East German take on a Brothers Grimm tale is often claimed to have scarred the psyche of a generation. The bear! The dwarf! The fish! Oh, sweet merciful John Craven, the fish!