Solid casting pays off in the husband-wife teaming of Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen for Graeme Clifford's "Little Red Riding Hood". Adopting a delightful cockney accent, McDowell is most engaging Reginald von Lupin, who eats Mary and her granny but, in the fantawsy world depicted, ens up the loser when both are rescued unharmed from his stomach by good guy Darrell Larson.
Effectively driving home the tale's theme of wanting to grow up (and not being too trusting), Steenburgen is a very sympathetic, audience surrogate as the child-woman whose maturatio is stifled by over-protective parents. McDowell's wolfman makeup manages to stylize his appearance while letting his distinctive facial feaures peek through.