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Les petits hommes de la forêt

Original title: The Gnome-Mobile
  • 1967
  • G
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.6K
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Les petits hommes de la forêt (1967)
In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.
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In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.

  • Director
    • Robert Stevenson
  • Writers
    • Ellis Kadison
    • Upton Sinclair
  • Stars
    • Walter Brennan
    • Matthew Garber
    • Karen Dotrice
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  • IMDb RATING
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    2.6K
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    • Director
      • Robert Stevenson
    • Writers
      • Ellis Kadison
      • Upton Sinclair
    • Stars
      • Walter Brennan
      • Matthew Garber
      • Karen Dotrice
    • 32User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan
    • D.J. Mulrooney…
    Matthew Garber
    Matthew Garber
    • Rodney Winthrop
    Karen Dotrice
    Karen Dotrice
    • Elizabeth Winthrop
    Richard Deacon
    Richard Deacon
    • Ralph Yarby
    Tom Lowell
    Tom Lowell
    • Jasper
    Sean McClory
    Sean McClory
    • Horatio Quaxton
    Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn
    • Rufus
    Jerome Cowan
    Jerome Cowan
    • Dr. Ramsey
    Charles Lane
    Charles Lane
    • Dr. Scoggins
    Norman Grabowski
    Norman Grabowski
    • Male Nurse
    Gil Lamb
    Gil Lamb
    • Gas Attendant
    Maudie Prickett
    Maudie Prickett
    • Katie Barrett
    Cami Sebring
    • Violet
    Virginia Aldridge
    • Gnome Maiden
    • (uncredited)
    Jackie Andre
    • Married Gnome
    • (uncredited)
    Parley Baer
    Parley Baer
    • The Owl
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Ernestine Barrier
    Ernestine Barrier
    • Nell
    • (uncredited)
    Hal Baylor
    Hal Baylor
    • Male Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Robert Stevenson
    • Writers
      • Ellis Kadison
      • Upton Sinclair
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    User reviews32

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    jiminasabadu

    Deligthful movie for the young ones (and the grown-ups too!)

    I saw it years ago, before BETA system was erased from the earth, and I still sing the songs from time to time. It is like a weird cross between Mary Poppins, Herbie and fragile rock. It was really amusing and as I said, with some catchy songs. Maybe the special effects are a little bit old-fashioned, but I am sure it is now as charming as it was then. I remember, maybe, the good being too god and the bad guys being too bad but, after all, it's supposed to be for kids!

    It's also one of those real image movies from Disney, a little bit forgotten, I don't know why. When home video was striking the world, many titles as this one were released, and now with the DVD explosion, some interesting movies, just like this one, seems to be passed by. I think this is much better than "lizzie McGuire" and all that "princess Disney" stuff and things like that. At least, a movie like "the gnome-Mobile", does say something, not just "hey! be cool and buy clothes" when you read between the lines.

    • Jimina Sabadú
    richard.fuller1

    Unbalanced!

    I've always remembered Tom Lowell as Canoe, Hayley Mills beatnik boyfriend in That Darn Cat, since I saw that movie in the auditorium back in school in the seventies.

    Later, I would learn he was the orderly that Cornelius killed in Escape from Planet of the Apes. I was puzzled as to how he became reduced to such a bit part, then seemed to vanish from sight. He never appeared on Love Boat or Fantasy Island, for crying out loud!

    Lo and behold, I come across a movie called The Gnomemobile in the movie store. And it had Tom Lowell in it.

    So I buy it. With Lowell as Jasper the gnome, the children from Mary Poppins (which, oddly enough was how they were credited) and Walter Brennan for some unexplained reason in a dual role, this movie could have been on the level of Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willie Wonka.

    So what went wrong? Over half the movie is spent on trying to get Grandpa out of the nuthouse.

    With a cast involving Maudie PIckett, Ellen Corby, Frank Cady, Richard Deacon and Alby Moore, they all would have stood out well had the movie made them gnomes along with Ed Wynn.

    So who was supposed to want to see this movie? If girls were supposed to think Lowell was cute, why does he sit out so much of the movie. He only gets one closeup toward the end as well.

    So were small children supposed to like the Mary Poppins children?

    Was Grandpa gnome or doodene supposed to be comically likable? Grandpa gnome maybe, but like Lowell, he sat out the majority of the movie.

    Once the movie got back to the woods, those beautiful woods, and we see Jasper trying to find a bride, the movie gets cute again.

    Even the talking animals, the birds, the owl and the raccoon, were all nice to see, but they aren't seen over five minutes at the beginning, then they are gone.

    Effects-wise, especially in regards to the double filming, this was all done very well.

    I must have caught some of this decades ago on the Wonderful World of Disney, as it all came back to me in strange shadowy flashbacks.

    Still it could have worked, even with gnomes singing that silly song instead of grandpa doodene. Ellen Corby, Frank Cady and Alby Moore would have been hysterical singing that thing.
    7barnabyrudge

    Busy, lively live-action Disney feature with plenty to like.

    The kids from Mary Poppins are re-united on screen to play modern-day siblings in this likable live-action Disney feature. Also on display are some neat special effects (for the time, anyway), in which normal-sized actors and gnomes seem to share the same screen space.

    Rodney (Matthew Garber) and Elizabeth (Karen Dotrice) arrive in San Francisco to meet up with their grandfather D.J Mulrooney (Walter Brennan), who runs a successful lumber company. They drive out to a redwood forest for a picnic, where Elizabeth happens across a gnome named Jasper (Tom Lowell), who begs her for help. Seems Jasper's grandpa Knobby (Brennan, again) is on the verge of death-by-depression because he thinks that he and Jasper are the world's only remaining gnomes and has lost all hope of seeing young Jasper finding a wife. Rodney, Elizabeth and D.J agree to help the gnomes by driving them to other forests further up the coast. En route, an opportunistic freak-show boss, Quaxton (Sean McClory), catches a glimpse of the gnomes and kidnaps them for his carnival. Matters worsen when D.J tries to get his own security agents to lead the hunt for the kidnapped gnomes, for they dismiss his orders as the ramblings of a mad-man and have him locked away in an asylum. Rodney and Elizabeth are the only ones who can free their grandfather, rescue the gnomes, and find a bride for Jasper before it's too late!

    Generally-speaking the film is likable and entertaining. Brennan is always a pleasure to watch and this is no exception (in fact, a double-pleasure as he has a dual role). Both child-actors are pretty good, especially Garber who demonstrates an understanding of comic timing/underplaying that most kids just don't have. The special effects are impressive for 1967, with convincing visual trick work to have the gnomes interacting with the humans, and some well done talking-animal-scenes at the beginning of the film. There are a few drawbacks. The title song 'Gnome-Mobile' is truly horrible, and McClory's villain isn't built up enough to make him a hissable bad guy. He just sort of appears in a few scenes looking shady, then disappears from the story without his role in it amounting to very much.

    On the whole, I like The Gnome-Mobile. It's harmless fun, with an inventive plot, enjoyable performances and lots of agreeably zany episodes.
    7TheLittleSongbird

    Lively and enjoyable family film

    The Gnome-Mobile wasn't a perfect movie, but it was a pleasant, lively and enjoyable one for the family. I do think it is a little too short though, consequently while Sean McClory is suitably shady and enjoyable enough as the villain of the piece his character especially doesn't build up to as much as it could've been. Also, I have never been that receptive to the title song, it just seems bland and forgettable and the lyrics for me are quite uninspired. However, The Gnome-Mobile does have a very entertaining story, and some funny scripting. And it too benefits from some nice photography, scenery and costumes. The direction is good, the film goes at a cracking pace and the special effects are surprisingly reasonable. The main merit though of The Gnome-Mobile is the cast. Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber are very appealing while Walter Brennan is simply wonderful in a dual role. Overall, an enjoyable film that doesn't quite make the grade but has a lot of things to make it watchable. 7/10 Bethany Cox
    hitchcockthelegend

    Hunting for Gnome's in the Gnome-Mobile.

    The Gnome-Mobile is a Disney production and stars Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Richard Deacon and sees Ed Wynn cameo. It's based on a 1936 book written by Upton Sinclair called The Gnomobile. The story concerns a timber tycoon called D.J. Mulrooney {Brennan} who along with his two grandchildren Rodney & Elizabeth {Garber & Dotrice}, get involved in the affairs of two Gnomes, Jasper & Knobby {Lowell & Brennan (again) respectively}. Jasper desperately wants a bride and Knobby is fading away as he fears the Gnome race is being wiped out by the constant felling of the forests. But in spite of Knobby's mistrust of humans, especially foresters, all five of them set off in Brennan's Rolls-Royce; now nicknamed The Gnome-Mobile by the children. Sure enough tho, problems arise as first a row breaks out when Knobby finds out about Mulrooney's trade, and worse still, when the two Gnomes are Gnomenapped by weird circus owner Horatio Quaxton {Sean McClory}. What will become of them all in Disney's fantastical family delight?

    What more do you want really? Leonard Maltin praised the film as being one of Disney's most unsung comedy/fantasies, and Roger Ebert wryly observed that Disney makes these types of films for kids, not critics. Who am I to argue with those two wise assumptions? It's a jolly film that contains bright and likable characters {acted likewise}, a lovely title song {written by the Sherman Brothers} and lasting effects work that has a timeless charm about it. The story {adventure} zips along with no boorish filler to hinder it, and the finale delivers everything you hope it will. Go Disney, this deserves a bigger reputation for sure. 7/10

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    • Trivia
      Throughout his career Walter Brennan, who had false teeth, approached roles in one of two ways: with teeth or without. In Les petits hommes de la forêt (1967) he had it both ways: teeth in for D.J. Mulrooney, and teeth out for Knobby the gnome.
    • Goofs
      D.J's room in the asylum is shown to have a window that is flush with the wall. However, outside shots show that the room is at roof level and the window protrudes from the roof.
    • Quotes

      Rodney Winthrop: Grandfather, where do we start this gnome hunting?

      D.J. Mulrooney: Well, I figure the most likely place would be a virgin forest. Now I happen to know of a 50,000-acre patch of timber. It's never been touched by--

      [D.J. glances at the other occupants of the car]

      D.J. Mulrooney: --by do-deans.

    • Connections
      Edited into Smoke (1970)
    • Soundtracks
      The Gnome-Mobile Song
      Words and Music by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman

      Sung by Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, and Karen Dotrice

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    • Release date
      • July 19, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Gnome-Mobile
    • Filming locations
      • Big Basin, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Walt Disney Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.75 : 1

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