DVD 69 mins IMDB 7.5
G (General Audience)
Bambi (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
RKO Radio Pictures (8/21/1942)
In Collection
#431

My Rating:
10

Seen It:
Yes

Owner:
Darren

Location:
Kids Room
Animation, Children
USA  /  English

Cammie King Faline [Voice]
Sterling Holloway Bambi, [Voice]
Perce Pearce Flower, [Voice]
Hardie Albright Thumper, [Voice]
Paul Behn (Voice)
Donnie Dunagan (Voice)
Bobby Stewart (Voice)
Hardy Albright (Voice)
Paula Winslowe (Voice)
N/A
Stan Alexander Young Flower
Bobette Audrey Additional Voices
Peter Behn Young Thumper
Thelma Boardman Mrs. Quail
Janet Chapman Additional Voices
Jeanne Christy Additional Voices
Dolyn Bramston Cook Additional Voices
Marion Darlington Bird Calls
Tim Davis Adult Thumper/Adolescent Flower
Thelma Hubbard
Mary Lansing
Jack Horner
Will Wright

Director David Hand; James Algar; Samuel Armstrong; N/A; Wilfred Jackson
Producer Walt Disney
Writer Felix Salten; Larry Morey
Cinematography Maxwell Morgan
Musician Edward H. Plumb

The classic Felix Salter story Bambi provides the basis for this near-perfect Disney animated feature. We follow the male deer Bambi from birth, through his early childhood experiences with woodland pals Thumper the rabbit and Flower the skunk, the traumatic sudden death of Bambi's mother at the hands of hunters, his courtship of the lovely doe Faline, and his rescue of his friends during a raging forest fire; we last see the mature, antlered Bambi assuming his proper place as the Prince of the Forest. In the grand Disney tradition, Bambi is brimming with unforgettable sequences, notably the young deer's attempts to negotiate an iced-over pond, and most especially the death of Bambi's mother—and if this moment doesn't move you to tears, you're made of stone (many subsequent Disney films, including Lion King, have tried, most in vain, to match the horror and pathos of this one scene). The score in Bambi yielded no hits along the lines of "Whistle While You Work", but the songs are adroitly integrated into the action. Bambi was the last of the "classic" early Disney features before the studio went into a decade-long doldrums of disjointed animated pastiches like Make Mine Music. — Hal Erickson

Edition Details
Distributor Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Edition Special Edition
Barcode 786936244175
Region Region 1
Release Date 3/1/2005
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2

Features
Disc 1: Animated Color Closed-captioned