Academy Awards, USA 1960
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture George Bruns |
Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Disney)
At a royal celebration for the birth of their daughter, a snubbed "evil fairy" named Maleficent places a curse on the infant: she will be pricked by a spinning wheel and die before her sixteenth birthday. Three "good fairies" decide to hide her away in the forest and protect her from the curse. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, their location is given away as the fairies use magic to make a dress for the party. Maleficent appears and the curse is completed. However, the good fairies manage to keep her in a deep sleep rather than die, only to be awakened by the kiss of a true love. Enter one prince who had fallen in love with her shortly before. There is a mad dash to keep him from finding her, leading to a showdown with Maleficent who pulls out all the stops, including turning into a dragon. Good, if not great, animated Disney, with a few too many similarities to Snow White and a stereotyped good vs evil plot line.
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