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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow Reviews

  • 1963
  • 1 hr 38 mins
  • Action & Adventure
  • G
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Disney tale about a vicar (Patrick McGoohan) who makes midnight forays and becomes the Robin Hood of 18th-century England. George Cole, Tony Britton. Banks: Michael Hordern. General Pugh: Geoffrey Keen. Mrs. Waggett: Kay Walsh. Originally shown as a Disney TV special.

Decent Disney telling of the old story of the innocent-looking vicar who doubles as a smuggler. This time it was done for broadcast as a three-part show for American TV in 1962. It was released overseas in 1963. Hammer Films made another version of the story in 1962 released in the US as NIGHT CREATURES, though both are copies of DOCTOR SYN (1937) with George Arliss.