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- In the film, an apprentice witch, three children and a cynical conman (who had falsely claimed to be an expert in witchcraft) search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain during World War II.
- This 1971 Disney film, a take on a pair of novels by Mary Norton, is often regarded as a Spiritual Successor to Mary Poppins - a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, etc.
- To her distaste, however, she is assigned three young siblings from London to protect them from the Blitz bombings. The three, Charlie (Ian Weighill), Carrie (Cindy O'Callaghan) and Paul Rawlins (Roy Snart), discover that Miss Price is a witch when she recklessly takes off into the sky on her new broomstick after they try to escape back to London. The next morning at breakfast, Charlie tries to blackmail Miss Price by threatening to reveal her magic secrets. Miss Price demonstrates her powers by transforming Charlie into a white rabbit, who is subsequently chased about the cottage by Miss Price's black cat, Cosmic Creepers. Rather than be blackmailed Miss Price decides to win over their favor instead by giving the children one of her spells.
- thumb|222px|Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (La Bruja Novata en España y Travesuras de una bruja en Hispanoamérica) es una película que combina la animación con imagen real producida por Walt Disney Productions y estrenada en el año 1971. La película se basa en dos libros de Mary Norton, The Magic Bed-Knob (1943) y Bonfires and Broomsticks (1943), los cuales fueron más tarde publicados como un sólo libro bajo el título de Bed-Knob and Broomstick (1957). El estudio había comprado los derechos para producir una adaptación cinematográfica de la obra en el caso de que Mary Poppins (1964) fracasase. Sin embargo, la película de 1964 fue un gran éxito y aún así Bedknobs and Broomsticks fue llevada a cabo. Logró éxito por parte de la crítica si financialmente no alcanzó las espe
- (The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from Bedknobs and Broomsticks) Doug (vo): How do you top something as big as Mary Poppins? Well, getting almost the exact same group together helps. Yeah, the same director, the same song team, some of the same actors. Let’s work in a story that’s very similar. Maybe not a magic nanny, but a witch. And maybe not Julie Andrews, but Angela Lansbury. And maybe not Britain, but...yeah, okay, still Britain...but completely different kids. This resulted in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. What in many respects should’ve been just sort of a lame knockoff trying to recapture the Mary Poppins feeling actually does become its own unique thing. And it’s fun and imaginative and catchy and funny and has...Nazis in it. Yeah, we’ll get to that, but let’s sta
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Buena Vista Distribution and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures which combines live action and animation and was released in North America on December 19, 1971. It is based upon the books The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton, and stars Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson.
- The film is frequently compared with Mary Poppins (1964), as it also combines live action and animation and is partly set in the streets of London. It shares several cast member from Mary Poppins, namely Tomlinson, supporting actor Reginald Owen (in his last film role) and Arthur Malet, a similar filmcrew, songwriters the Sherman Brothers, director Robert Stevenson, art director Peter Ellenshaw, and music director Irwin Kostal.
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