Charlotte's Web (1973 film)

Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical drama film based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film, like the book, is about a pig named Wilbur who befriends an intelligent spider named Charlotte who saves him from being slaughtered. The film was directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto from a story by Earl Hamner Jr., and features the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, and Henry Gibson, alongside narration by Rex Allen. Charlotte's Web also features a song score of music and lyrics written by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously written music for family films like Mary Poppins (1964), The Jungle Book (1967), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
Charlotte's Web premiered at the Radio City Music Hall on February 22, 1973, and was released on March 1 to moderate critical and commercial success. It was the first of only four Hanna-Barbera films not to be based upon one of their famous television cartoons, C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979), Heidi's Song (1982) and Once Upon a Forest (1993) being the other three.
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Category:1973 Films