Alice in Wonderland (1933) on Netflix
NR19331h 16mAdventureComedyFamilyFantasy
Alice chases a White Rabbit down a hole and falls into a room of doors. A bottle reading "Drink Me, Not Poison" makes her grow big and her tears flood the room.
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Plot summary
In Victorian England, a bored young girl named Alice lives peacefully at home with Dinah. She chases a White Rabbit into a hole and falls through to a room of various doors in Wonderland. A bottle that reads "Drink Me, Not Poison" makes her grow big, and while she weeps her tears flood the room around her. She eats a cookie and turns tiny, then swims in her own tears, where she meets a couple of odd men, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Alice in Wonderland (1933)
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- Walt Disney saw this 1933 Paramount adaptation of Lewis Carroll, and it inspired him to make his own studio's 1951 animated Alice in Wonderland.
- China banned the film under a category of "superstitious films", objecting to its "strangeness" and what it called unscientific elements.
- The 1933 Alice is the only major live-action Hollywood theatrical production ever to adapt Lewis Carroll's original Alice stories.
- Its failure as a box office bomb made Hollywood doubt that a live-action fantasy with strange-looking characters could work on screen, until MGM's The Wizard of Oz in 1939.
