Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood

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Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood
Directed by
Rosalio Solano
Music byRaul Lavista
Production
companies
Estudios Churubusco
Películas Rodríguez
Distributed byK. Gordon Murray Productions
(United States)
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguagesSpanish
English (dub)

Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood (

Roberto Rodríguez.[1][2]

The film features the

the Devil
.

Background

It is a sequel to two other imported films, Little Red Riding Hood (1960) and Little Red Riding Hood and Friends (1961). The

dubbed version of the film was theatrically released in United States by K. Gordon Murray in 1965. The film was also released on VHS by Something Weird Video in 2002. An uncut version of the film with English subtitles was released on DVD
as Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters.

Plot

The film follows the adventures of

).

The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Big Bad Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and The Ogre (José Elías Moreno)[4] of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed the Queen of Badness in the English dub[5] and resembling the Wicked Queen from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves[6]), who orders them to be executed.

Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) escapes, however, and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic.

The rest of the story details the heroes'

the Devil
until the final battle in her castle. With the death of the Queen, Big Bad Wolf and Ogre are saved and the villagers are restored to their human forms.

See also

References

  1. ^ Flickchart
  2. ^ FilmAffinity
  3. ^ The Wonderful Land of Oz/Jack and the Beanstalk - DVD Drive-In
  4. ^ The A.V. Club
  5. ^ "Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters - Mexico, 1962 - reviews". 2014-01-05.
  6. ^ The Wonderful Land of Oz/Jack and the Beanstalk - DVD Drive-In
  7. ^ "Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. The Monsters (1962)".

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