The Headless Horseman

[Mikey]

An oldie but a goodie by Bing Crosby

YouTube - 'The Headless Horseman

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[SUP-Ronin]

this was always my favorite halloween story. I love the headless horseman totally creepy.

[jasonmego1277]

I am actually working on a Custom headless Horseman that I hope will serve as a prototype for the megolike line I have been working on. I should be able to post pics in the finished customs section soon. Yes The legend of Sleepy Hollow is also one of my all-time favs.

[Captain]

I havent seen that in years. When I was a kid, Wise World of Disney used to air a special that featured this scene every Halloween. I miss those old disney specials. I have the Christmas ones..have to see if the Halloween one is out on DVD?

[Mikey]

Incase anyone is interested, here's the whole cartoon

Part-1
YouTube - Part 1 of Disney's banned Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1958

Part-2
YouTube - Part 2 of Disney's banned Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1958

Part-3
YouTube - Part 3 of Disney's banned Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1958

Part-4
YouTube - Part 4 of Disney's banned Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1958

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Since when is it banned? I just bought it on DVD from the Disney Club. It comes from the movie "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" but I didn't know that for years. I assumed it was a longer Disney short, since I saw it for years on the annual Disney Halloween specials. I miss those. They'd show the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of Fantastia, the REALLY old dancing skeletons short, part of Snow White with the Queen/Witch, and a Donald cartoon with Huey, Duey and Luey and a witch.

Chris

[Mikey]

I think youtube people write "banned" in their titles - a form of key word spamming to get people to watch

[toys2cool]

Since when is it banned? I just bought it on DVD from the Disney Club. It comes from the movie "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" but I didn't know that for years. I assumed it was a longer Disney short, since I saw it for years on the annual Disney Halloween specials. I miss those. They'd show the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment of Fantastia, the REALLY old dancing skeletons short, part of Snow White with the Queen/Witch, and a Donald cartoon with Huey, Duey and Luey and a witch.

Chris

I bought it there as well and I just saw it at a store

[DocDrako]

I have this on DVD as well. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite "scary" stories and I'm trying to get my son into it but he's still a little afraid of the Headless Horseman. The Horseman's laugh is pretty awesome. I never cared for Ichabod and I watch the show just waiting for the Headless Horseman to show up. That's when the story gets good.

[Meule]

Never seen this before, but it looks cool, will have to check it out

[toys2cool]

I have this on DVD as well. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite "scary" stories and I'm trying to get my son into it but he's still a little afraid of the Headless Horseman. The Horseman's laugh is pretty awesome. I never cared for Ichabod and I watch the show just waiting for the Headless Horseman to show up. That's when the story gets good.

as a kid I would go crazy for that every Halloween

[DocDrako]

as a kid I would go crazy for that every Halloween

I seem to remember occasionally seeing a short clip of the headless horseman at the beginning of something Disney related and every time I did, I'd find myself standing up in excitement. What a great animated feature. To this day, I love the character and there's even an episode of Little House on the Prairie where he makes a cameo appearance when Laura is scared. There's not enough headless action in the entertainment world.

[johnnystorm]

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is one of my favorite stories, I've read it a four or five times. I like the Bing Crosby Disney version, and there's been a number of pretty decent film adaptions (the Tim Burton-Johnny Depp movie NOT being one of them- ugh!).

I got interested in the story by one of those "Famous Classic Tales" Hanna-Barbera cartoons that ran on Saturday afternoons in the '70s. Not the best animation, but I really looked forward to seeing those. There were quite a few of them, I recall a Davy Crockett one, Christmas Carol, Three Musketeeers, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe. I think most of them are out there on those $1.00 store dvds.

[hobub]

There's a very good version on "On Demand" now. I think it's called "Sleepy Hollow" or "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". But it is very much, like the way it was originally written. When I first located it, the detals said "actors not available:. I think from 1998 or so. My wife said, "we saw that!". She and I were both confusing it with the Tim Burton one. Which, I wanted to see a true Washington Irving version. And this was it. Very good version. Check it out on Comcast, On Demand.

http://za.hallmarkchannel.tv/program..._hollow_37896/

Toward the end, my wife said, "I don't like that Ichabod, he's not a very nice person". And I said, "Exactly, the kind of guy who could lose his head and you wouldn't care much!"

Tim Burton should try to do a film like this. It might just work. Not that I didn't like his version, but I prefer originals. Again, not that his version isn't original. It is. but HE didn't write the story. He reworked it. Even the Disney toon is closer to original than the Burton rewrite.

Since I'm on the topic too. I have to get Nightmare before Christmas and The Corpse Bride out to watch with the family..Truly original Burton classics!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I like Burton's movie, but it's barely the story Irving created. It's one of the few "reimaginings" that works on it's own, although I prefer the original tale as well.

I'd like to see that straight version you guys spoke of.

Chris