The first entry in the "Cannon Movie Tales" series.
Priscilla Pointer (Queen Grizelda) is the mother of Amy Irving (Katie) and the director David Irving. Robert Symonds (Victor) was their stepfather.
Part of the "Cannon Movie Tales" series, nine feature films based on classic fairy tales that were produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus for the Cannon Group in the mid 1980s. All of the films featured well-known actors from the U.S. and U.K. and were shot on-location in Israel. Although the series was originally conceived to have sixteen films, production stopped at nine when Rumpelstiltskin (1987) flopped at the box office, and the remaining films were sent directly to video. Despite their commercial failure, the Movie Tales garnered a cult following after the Disney Channel began airing them as "Storybook Cinema" in 1988. The nine films in the series are: The Frog Prince (1986), Sleeping Beauty (1987), The Emperor's New Clothes (1987), Rumpelstiltskin (1987), Snow White (1987), Beauty and the Beast (1987), Hansel and Gretel (1987), Puss in Boots (1988), and Red Riding Hood (1987).
Amy Irving (Katie) and her mother Priscilla Pointer (Queen Grizelda) previously appeared in "Carrie" as Sue Snell and Mrs. Snell.
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