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When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.
Claude Dauphin
- Monkey
- (voice)
Romain Bouquet
- Fox
- (voice)
Sylvain Itkine
- Wolf
- (voice)
Léon Larive
- Bear
- (voice)
Robert Seller
- Cock
- (voice)
Eddy Debray
- Badger
- (voice)
- (as Debray)
Nicolas Amato
- Cat
- (voice)
Sylvia Bataille
- Rabbit
- (voice)
Suzy Dornac
- Fox Cub
- (voice)
Jaime Plama
- Cat (singing)
- (voice)
Marcel Raine
- Sire Noble
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThough it was produced in 1930 but it did not released until 1937 when it got released just eight months before Disney's Snow White.
- ConnectionsFeatured in South Jersey Sam: Top 13 Best Foxes (2011)
Featured review
Dazzling Animation from a forgotten genius
Seven years before "Snow White" Wladyslaw Starewicz produced a truly amazing piece of stop motion animation, not only one of the first to use sound and dialogue as more than decoration, but the first truly adult animation with a blackly comic story-line that's astonishingly fresh today.
The culmination of twenty years of pioneering animation, "Tale" was virtually forgotten from it's release till the early 1990's when it resurfaced at various film festivals. Seeing "Tale" now it's easy to understand why 1930's audiences might have had a hard time with this. The brutality of humour and characters would've been off-putting to most and even now the film an ability to shock.
It's easy to go into this expecting a more primitive "Song of the South" and at first this seems like where we're headed. But there's a cynicism and sophistication Walt could never have imagined.
Reynaud (craftily voiced by Romain Bouquet)is no Disney hero nor should he be taken as a soft hearted villain. Completely amoral, loyal to none (outside his family) he ruthlessly exploits the gullibility of his peers (and even the king himself), in a series of inventive and savagely comic encounters to a point where the enraged animal kingdom declares war on him.
Ten years in the making, "Tale" offers numerous highlights (the drunken rabbit in the monastery, the attack on Reynaud's castle; not to mention a particularly surreal and endearing song between a love smitten cat and a royal girl dove during the strange armistice in which no animal is allowed to eat another.)
An unforgettable and remarkable movie that defies it's age. Try to look out for this one on video (it's available) or in animation festivals... Better still write into your local TV station and request it so more people can see it.
The culmination of twenty years of pioneering animation, "Tale" was virtually forgotten from it's release till the early 1990's when it resurfaced at various film festivals. Seeing "Tale" now it's easy to understand why 1930's audiences might have had a hard time with this. The brutality of humour and characters would've been off-putting to most and even now the film an ability to shock.
It's easy to go into this expecting a more primitive "Song of the South" and at first this seems like where we're headed. But there's a cynicism and sophistication Walt could never have imagined.
Reynaud (craftily voiced by Romain Bouquet)is no Disney hero nor should he be taken as a soft hearted villain. Completely amoral, loyal to none (outside his family) he ruthlessly exploits the gullibility of his peers (and even the king himself), in a series of inventive and savagely comic encounters to a point where the enraged animal kingdom declares war on him.
Ten years in the making, "Tale" offers numerous highlights (the drunken rabbit in the monastery, the attack on Reynaud's castle; not to mention a particularly surreal and endearing song between a love smitten cat and a royal girl dove during the strange armistice in which no animal is allowed to eat another.)
An unforgettable and remarkable movie that defies it's age. Try to look out for this one on video (it's available) or in animation festivals... Better still write into your local TV station and request it so more people can see it.
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- hamilton65
- Sep 29, 2001
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- How the Fox Trapped the Bear
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $2,094
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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