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29 January 1959 (USA) moreTagline:
Now the magic moment! Full-length feature fantasy - Beautiful beyond belief morePlot:
A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Tchaikowsky's beautiful music and Maleficent's dark shadow moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Mary Costa | ... | Princess Aurora (voice) |
| Bill Shirley | ... | Prince Phillip (voice) |
| Eleanor Audley | ... | Maleficent (voice) |
| Verna Felton | ... | Flora (voice) |
| Barbara Luddy | ... | Merryweather (voice) |
| Barbara Jo Allen | ... | Fauna (voice) |
| Taylor Holmes | ... | Stefan (voice) |
| Bill Thompson | ... | Hubert (voice) |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
75 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby Digital (DVD version) | 70 mm 6-Track (RCA Sound Recording) (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints) | Stereo (original release)Certification:
West Germany:o.Al. | Iceland:L | Portugal:M/6 | South Korea:All | USA:G (re-rating) (1970) | Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Approved (certificate #19062) (original rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:K-8 (1959) | Peru:PT | Spain:T | Sweden:7 (re-release) | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | Brazil:LivreMOVIEmeter: 
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The ominous piece of music to which Maleficent hypnotizes Aurora into pricking her finger is called "Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat." In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, it is used for a comic number in which two cats snarl at and try to scratch each other. moreGoofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the fairies change into peasant clothes, Merryweather does not speak the first half of her line, "And we can use our magic to help us." moreQuotes:
[first lines]Narrator: In a faraway land, long ago, there lived a King and his fair Queen. Many years they had longed for a child, and finally their wish was granted. A daughter was born, and they called her Aurora. Yes, they named her after the dawn, for she filled their lives with sunshine. Then a great holiday was proclaimed throughout the land, so that all of high or low estate could pay homage to the infant Princess. And our story begins on that most joyful day...
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This excellent Disney cartoon feature has the familiar fairy tale pattern of a lovely, beautiful princess, kindly, good-natured fairies, a handsome prince, brooding, forbidding castles and an evil witch. The frightening Maleficent casts a pall on the story in spite of Aurora's happy life with the three fairies in the hidden cottage in the forest. The wicked sorceress stops at nothing to find the young princess in order to bring her evil prophecy to fruition, and her voice has a purring, chilling and ominous tone that does not bode well for Aurora's well-being. The gray, waxen pallor of Maleficent's visage, sharply-arched eyebrows, the narrow, yellowed eye-slits, the black widow's peak and the two distinctive, terrifying horns is a stunning portrait of evil personified. The orchestration from Tchaikowsky's ballet is delightful, but also has its somber, dark moments and forebodings of evil.