Follow TV Tropes

Following

Context Trivia / ThePhantomTollbooth

Go To

1* ActingForTwo: A common occurrence in the film:
2** Mel Blanc as Officer Short Shrift, The Dodecahedron, The Demon of Insincerity, The Letter Vendor, Ministers, Lethargians, and The Overbearing Know-It-All
3** Daws Butler as The Whether Man, The Senses Taker, The Terrible Trivium, The Gelatinous Giant
4** Hans Conried as King Azaz the Unabridged and his brother The Mathemagician
5** June Foray as Ralph, The Princess of Pure Reason, and Faintly Macabre the Not-So-Wicked Which
6** Shepard Menken as The Spelling Bee and Chroma the Great
7** Cliff Norton as Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord and the Tollbooth Speaker Voice
8** Les Tremayne as The Humbug and The Poetic Words Vendor
9* DisownedAdaptation: Norton Juster hated the film, and the fact that many people liked it annoyed him even more.
10* RereleasedForFree: The 1970 film is released for free to watch on Platform/YouTube on July 2023.
11* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Despite being completed in 1968, internal problems at Creator/{{MGM}} (likely stemming from the closure of the animation department and Kirk Kerkorian's purchase of the studio) meant it didn't get released until 1970 (as part of the MGM ''Children's Matinee'' banner).

Top