Released
The Figurehead
January 1 1952 (almost 73 years ago)Rating
70
Based on
1 review
- Director: Allan Crick
- Genres: Romance, Animation, Fantasy
- Runtime: 7 m
- Country: United Kingdom
- Company: Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films
A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.
