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The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth

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The Phantom Tollbooth

"It's an Alphabeautiful Mathemagical New Musical Movie!"

1970

1h 29m

6.9(86 votes)

Animation

Adventure

Comedy

Fantasy

Family

Overview

A young boy named Milo unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth and, out of boredom, drives through it and enters a fantastical, animated kingdom in turmoil following the loss of its princesses, Rhyme and Reason.

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Social & External

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Butch Patrick

Butch Patrick

Milo

Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

Officer Short Shrift / Dodecahedron / Demon of Insincerity (voice)

Daws Butler

Daws Butler

Whether Man / Senses Taker / Terrible Trivium / Gelatinous Giant (voice)

Candy Candido

Candy Candido

Awful DYNN (voice)

Hans Conried

Hans Conried

King Azaz / The MathemaGician (voice)

June Foray

June Foray

Ralph / Faintly Macabre / Princess of Pure Reason (voice)

Patti Gilbert

Princess of Sweet Rhyme (voice)

Shepard Menken

Spelling Bee / Chroma (voice)

Cliff Norton

Cliff Norton

akofonous A. Dischord / Tollbooth Speaker (voice)

Larry Thor

Larry Thor

Tock the Watchdog (voice)

Creative team

Directed by: Dave Monahan
Abe Levitow
Written by: Chuck Jones
Sam Rosen
Produced by: Chuck Jones
Les Goldman

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