Snow White (1987 film)

Snow White
Snow White
Directed by	Michael Berz
Written by	Michael Berz
Based on	Snow White; published 1812; by the Brothers Grimm
Produced by	Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus
Starring	Diana Rigg; Sarah Patterson; Billy Barty; Nicola Stapleton
Cinematography	Amnon Salomon
Edited by	Moshe Avni; John S. Smith
Music by	Arik Rudich
Production; company	Golan-Globus Productions
Distributed by	Cannon Films
Release date	1987 (US);
Running time	83 minutes
Countries	Israel; United States
Language	English

Snow White is a 1987 American musical fantasy film based on the classic 1812 fairytale and released as part of the "Cannon Movie Tales" series. The film was released straight to video. In August 2005 it was released on Region 1 DVD by MGM.

Plot

The film opens with a handsome young prince traveling through the forest in winter with his men. In a forest glen, the prince finds Snow White asleep in a glass coffin. The seven dwarfs arrive and tell the Prince of Snow White's story through flashback.

A courageous King and his fair Queen rule their kingdom well. One winter's day while sewing with her maids, the Queen accidentally pricks her finger with her needle, and a single drop of blood falls on the snow outside her windowsill. The King declares they will have a child with hair as black as ebony, cheeks as red as blood, and skin as white as snow. The Good Queen eventually gives birth to a daughter, whom she names Snow White, but dies shortly after her child is born.

Some years later, the king marries again. However, the new queen (Diana Rigg) is vain and jealous of Snow White (Nicola Stapleton). When her magic mirror tells her that Snow White is now the fairest in the land, the Evil Queen orders a huntsman (Amnon Meskin) to take Snow White into the forest and kill her, and to bring back her liver as proof of her death. During a hunting trip, the huntsman succeeds in taking Snow White away from her father, but Snow White, realizing her stepmother's plan to destroy her, manages to escape into the forest where she finds a cottage belonging to seven kindly dwarves - Iddy, Biddy, Kiddy, Diddy, Fiddy, Giddy and Liddy - who allow her to stay with them. The King is heartbroken when he is told that Snow White had been eaten by wild animals, and later he is killed in battle.

Years later, Snow White (Sarah Patterson) grows into a beautiful young maiden. When the Evil Queen asks the magic mirror "who is the fairest one of all", she learns that Snow White is still alive. The Evil Queen attempts to poison Snow White three times. First, she disguises herself as a gypsy woman and laces up Snow White so tightly in a bodice, and she falls asleep, only for the dwarves to return and cut the lace with scissors and for her to awaken. The second time, she disguises herself as a Japanese geisha selling combs and gives Snow White a comb poisoned with an oriental potion, which puts her to sleep again. The dwarves later remove the comb from her hair and destroy it. Finally, the Evil Queen disguises herself as an old peddler woman and offers Snow White a poisoned apple. Snow White resists at first but relents when the Evil Queen cuts the apple in half so they may share it. Snow White eats the poisoned red half of the apple and collapses in sleep a third time. The dwarves are unable to revive her and place her inside a glass coffin.

The film returns to the present, where the dwarves allow the Prince to take the sleeping Snow White to a proper resting place. While Snow White is being transported, the coffin accidentally falls off the wagon due to a tree getting downed in a snowstorm, causing the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, and she awakens. The Prince is enchanted that Snow White magically revived herself and asks her to marry him, and she accepts.

Invitations to the wedding are sent throughout the land, and the Evil Queen receives one as well, leaving the magic mirror into concluding that the Prince's bride is the fairest in the land. Enraged at this answer, the Evil Queen smashes her mirror, which causes her to age rapidly. She rushes to the church in time to see that the bride is her stepdaughter Snow White; then the Queen petrifies and blasts into pieces, until she finally disintegrates quickly into ashes carried and spread by the strong wind, before heading back to her royal carriage. Snow White and the Prince are officially married and live happily ever after.

Cast

Diana Rigg as The Evil Queen, Snow White's evil stepmother^[1]^[2]
Sarah Patterson as Snow White
Nicola Stapleton as Young Snow White
Billy Barty as Iddy
Mike Edmonds as Biddy
Ricardo Gil as Kiddy
Malcolm Dixon as Diddy
Gary Friedkin as Fiddy
Arturo Gil as Giddy
Tony Cooper as Liddy
James Ian Wright as The Prince
Dorit Adi as the First and Good Queen, Snow White's mother
Julian Chagrin as the Magic Mirror
Amnon Meskin as the Huntsman
Azara Rapoport as the other King, the Prince's father

References

^ "Snow White through the years". Los Angeles Times. 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
^ Darnton, Nina (1986-10-17). "AT THE MOVIES". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

External links

[1] "Snow White through the years". Los Angeles Times. 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

[2] Darnton, Nina (1986-10-17). "AT THE MOVIES". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

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