Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
Director: Michael Berz
Stars: Diana Rigg, Billy Barty, Sarah Patterson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093999/
Watched online: part 1, part 2, reversed print, ok quality.
8 songs in the Soundtracks, all at least Lyrics by writer/director Michael Berz, sometimes also music.
1st entry in this series was Rumpelstiltskin ('87) with Amy Irving. Interesting that this was filmed in a studio in Israel.
Some of the music is ok here, but the sole reason this is not a 5 is Diana Rigg as the evil stepmother queen, and the fact that she makes 3 attempts to kill off Snow after learning the hunter did not bring back the child's liver: first as a gypsy fabric saleswoman who laces Snow's bodice so tight she can't breathe, then as a geisha saleswoman who stabs her with a poisoned comb, and finally as the old crone saleswoman with the dual-colored poison apple, with the worm in the non-poison side. Otherwise this was as meh as Rump was. But these are intended for children.
Also interesting: the dwarves names are not Grumpy, Sleepy, etc., but variations on _iddely.
distr. Cannon Group, dir. Berz; 6-
