In the trio’s moaning and blubbing as they prepare to sneak into the witch’s castle, you can see a foreshadowing of Westley, Inigo and Fezzik invading Humperdinck’s castle in The Princess Bride. In the clanking of the Tin Man’s rusty limbs, you can hear echoes of Don Quixote’s home-made armour. None of them is what you’d call a handsome prince. Just look at the trio of frightened and feeble misfits that accompanies its heroine along the yellow brick road. Is When Harry met Sally the greatest romcom ever?īut for all of its similarities to the Disney film, MGM’s version was more of an anti-fairy tale than a fairy tale. It went on to be cinema’s biggest hit of 1938, a success that not only encouraged Disney to make other fairy-tale cartoons for decades to come, but also encouraged another studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to try its own fantasy musical about an orphaned girl and a wicked witch: The Wizard of Oz.
In December 1937, Walt Disney Productions released its first feature-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
