Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1942
Tulips Shall Grow
Buy Tulips Shall Grow now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Tulips Shall Grow' is a 1942 American animated short film in the 'Puppetoons' series, directed by George Pal and starring Rex Ingram and Victor Jory. It was released by Paramount Pictures and originally photographed in 3-strip Technicolor. It later became the black-and-white edition by National Telefilm Associates.
Plot
A Dutch boy and girl's idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of Nazi-like mechanical men called "The Screwballs", who lay waste to everything they touch. The Screwballs are later destroyed by a thunderstorm (the rain of which causes them to rust) and the boy and girl's idyllic life resumes.[https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/2013/may/07/dig-a-hole-and-emtulips-shall-growem-ray-harryhaus/ Dig a hole and Tulips Shall Grow: Ray Harryhausen|San Diego Reader]
Reception
The cartoon was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It was also included in the 1987 compilation film 'The Puppetoon Movie'.
References
Buy Tulips Shall Grow now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1942