Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Kirstie Alley, Ross Malinger

Summary: This combination of animation and live-action utilises Prokofiev's perennial favourite as the musical backdrop for the classic fable of young boy who outwits a cunning wolf, this time featuring animation from the legendary Chuck Jones. Kirstie Alley, Lloyd Bridges, and Ross Malinger provide the vocal talent for this acclaimed production, which won an Emmy in 1996 for Outstanding Prime Time Children's Program.

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Director Joe Johnston has always had an entertaining sense of adventure, and with Hidalgohe proves it in spades. It's yet another underrated film for Johnston (along with such enjoyable popcorn flicks as The Rocketeerand Jurassic Park III), dismissed by many critics but a welcome treat for anyone drawn to good ol'-fashioned movie excitement. In his first role since playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Ringstrilogy, Viggo Mortensen brings handsome appeal to his low-key portrayal of Frank T. Hopkins, a real-life long-distance horse racer who, as the movie opens, has witnessed the appalling massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890. Drifting into Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he agrees to compete, with his trusty mustang, Hidalgo, in "The Ocean of Fire," a treacherous 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian desert. Toss in a bunch of conspiring competitors, a noble sheik (Omar Sharif), his lovely daughter (Zuleikha Robinson), and enough fast-paced danger to fill 133 minutes, and you've got a rousing, humorous, and lightly spiritual adventure that's a lot of fun to watch. It hardly matters that it's almost pure fiction (the real Hopkins was known by many as "a pathological liar"). More important is the love of movies and moviemaking that Johnston so delightfully conveys. --Jeff Shannon

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	The Musical World Of Peter And The Wolf, Beyond The Meadow, Set Top Game
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1995
Release Date:	November 24, 2003
Runtime:	46 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 34129
Keywords:	Peter, Family, General, Wolf, Childrens
Genre:	Childrens