The Wind in the Willows

  • Fantasy
  • Animation
  • Family
  • Adventure
  • TV Movie
12/30/1983
79
NR

Storyline

One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.

Cast

Reviews

  • Geronimo1967

    Cosgrove Hall were very much at the forefront of stop-motion animation in Britain at the start of the 1980s with their award-winning Danger Mouse and with this, probably their finest long-form adaptation of Kenneth Grahames charming story. Its Mole who gets fed up repainting his burrow and so sets off for a stroll to see his friend Rat and thence deep into the wintry woods to find Badger. These three are agitated by the erratic behaviour of Toad who has discovered the joys of the motor car, but not really of sensible driving. Indeed, hes wrecked so many of the things that he is becoming a menace to himself and just about everyone else. Badger decides that a form of house-arrest is the only solution and so they lock Toad in his bedroom. Unfo...

    June 20, 2025

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