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Starring Shelley Duvall, Jeff Bridges, and Gina Rowlands

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"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, so pretty and so fair, Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your golden hair."

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A fantastic production of a great tale, and a personal favorite of mine.  This adaptation of Rapunzel is the best ever done.  I haven't been able to locate many other adaptations and not one can compare to this.  Shelley Duvall takes the title role and does a great job of the sweet heroine locked in a tower.  Jeff Bridges is hilarious as the Prince and also, it must be said, certainly looks the part.  Bridges and Duvall double as Rapunzel's parents in the first half of the story - which they obviously had a riot doing.  Gena Rowlands plays the witch with style - even though she did terrify me when I was four... I'm well over that now... I guess.  Roddy McDowell does the narration and adds just the right amount of charm to this very stylish faerie tale.

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QUOTES:

MARIE: Claude, I have to have a raddish!
CLAUDE: You are not going to die if you don't get a raddish.
MARIE: How do you know?
CLAUDE: Have you ever heard of anyone dying for lack of a raddish?
 
 
RAPUNZEL: You feel so light mother.
WITCH: Light?  As compared to what?
RAPUNZEL: Nothing.  As compared to nothing.
WITCH: As compared to nothing?
RAPUNZEL: You're lighter than air.  That's all.

 
WITCH: Birds are far less trouble than men, believe me.
 
 
WITCH: What are you doing in my garden?
CLAUDE: A wind blew me in.
WITCH: Oh, a wind. And what happened to uproot my raddishes?
CLAUDE: I'm sure that if the wind is strong enough to blow me in it's
certainly strong enough to uproot a few raddishes.
WITCH: And how did they make their way into your sack?
CLAUDE: I was just wondering that myself!
 
 
WITCH: Well, when I find him I'm going to gauge is eyes out. I'm going to make his brains into soup.
RAPUNZEL: Yuck! Mother!
WITCH: Now Rapunzel, don't be hasty to judge it before you've tried it! 
 
 
WITCH: You're too stupid to raise a baby girl.  Oh a son perhaps.  A daughter, never.
 
 
RAPUNZEL: What exactly is a man?
PRINCE: Well let down your hair, I'll climb up and you can find out.

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Episode 3 (2-1)
Air Date: February 5, 1983

CAST:

Shelley Duvall..................Marie/Rapunzel
Jeff Bridges...............Claude/Prince Henry
Gena Rowlands..............................Witch
Roddy McDowall.........................Narrator
Phil Fondacaro.............................. Goblin

Produced by Jonathan Taplin

Written by J. David Wyles

Directed by Gilbert Cates

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