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The Big Bad Wolf

The Big Bad Wolf

Animation · Comedy · 1934

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Movie details

The Big Bad Wolf

“Red Riding Hood travels to visit her sick grandmother.”

1934 Animation · Comedy 9m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over The Big Bad Wolf?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Burt Gillett

Written by

Charles Perrault

Sara Berner

Sara Berner

Little Red Riding Hood / Grandma (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Pinto Colvig

Practical Pig (voice) (uncredited)

D

Dorothy Compton

Fifer Pig (voice) (uncredited)

M

Mary Moder

Fiddler Pig (voice) (uncredited)

S

Shirley Reed

Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)

Court is in session

Put The Big Bad Wolf on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.