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词条 The Talking Parcel
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  1. Film adaptation

     Voice cast 

  2. External links

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The Talking Parcel (also published as The Battle for Castle Cockatrice) is a 1974 book by Gerald Durrell in which children are transported to the fantasy land of Mythologia to save it from cockatrices. They are aided by a talking parrot and encounter many other magical creatures, including a mooncalf.

The book has been translated into a number of languages, including Czech, Estonian, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.[1]

Film adaptation

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Mark Hall
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Rosemary Anne Sisson (writer)
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Woolly Wolstenholme
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| editing= John McManus
Dave Street
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(UK) 40 min.
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It was made into an animated feature for television by Cosgrove Hall Films in 1978, debuting on ITV. However, the film differs from the book mainly by introducing only one human protagonist, the girl Penelope.

Voice cast

  • Lisa Norris ... Penelope
  • Freddie Jones ... Parrot
  • Mollie Sugden ... Hortense, the Flying Train
  • Roy Kinnear ... Ethelred
  • Edward Kelsey ... H.H. Junketbury
  • Windsor Davies ... Chief Cockatrice
  • Michael Hordern ... Oswald, the Sea Serpent
  • Peter Woodthorpe ... Werewolf
  • Harvey Ashby ... Duke Wensleydale
  • Raymond Mason
  • Daphne Oxenford

External links

  • [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330963/ The Talking Parcel (1978)] at IMDb.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQoQOpug3Wg The Talking Parcel on Youtube] Part 1
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