The Phantom Tollbooth

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I watched The Phantom Tollbooth yesterday. I taped it when it was on TCM. It is based on a book by Norton Juster. (I haven't read the book, but I did see a children's play.) The movie was director and written by Chuck Jones (love him). It has Butch Patrick, Mel Blanc (love him), Daws Butler, Candy Candido, Hans Conried, June Foray, Patti Gilbert, Cliff Norton, Larry Thor, and Les Tremayne. In this movie, a boy named Milo is bored. He is talking to his friend on the phone and discovers a huge box appears. The box has a tollbooth inside it. Milo gets in a toy car. He has in mind that he wants to go to the Castle in the Air (wikipedia says in the book he wants to go to Dictionopolis). He later meets a watch dog who becomes his companion. He goes to Dictionopolis and a fight between a bee and an insect. Milo and the dog is thrown in prison where he meets Which who tells them about the princesses in the Castle in the Air. Milo decides to free them. So he tells the king of Dictionopolis and he agrees to let them go with Humbug, the insect who had a fight with the bee. They go to Digitopolis where numbers rule. The king of Digitopolis refuses to let Milo free the princesses. But Milo tells him that he and his brother do agree to disagree. So the king of Digitopolis lets them free the princesses. They do and the princesses changes the kingdom back to the way it was before. Then Milo leaves and appears in his house. The big box floats away to his friend's house. I did like this movie. Next week I'm watching Peter Pan (the 2003 version).