Rating: G
Genre: Children's/Family
Release Date: 04/12/2005
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Flags: Child Classic
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video

This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up with Shakespearean actor Richard Haydn, who owns a treasure map. Crooked judge Karl Malden (a master of many disguises), pilfers the map once Our Heroes reach San Francisco. While endeavoring to retrieve the valuable parchment, Griffin has any number of adventures, ranging from a bout of fisticuffs with ox-like Mike Mazurki to a romance with Russell's sister Suzanne Pleshette, a former debutante turned saloon singer. If Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin resembles an animated cartoon at times, credit should go to veteran Disney animator Ward Kimball, who provided the spirited cartoon transitions between scenes.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Roddy McDowall - Bullwhip Griffin
Suzanne Pleshette - Arabella Flagg
Karl Malden - Judge Higgins
Harry Guardino - Sam Trimble
Bryan Russell - Jack Flagg
Richard Haydn - Quentin Bartlett
Hermione Baddeley - Irene Chesney
Liam Redmond - Capt. Swain
Cecil Kellaway - Mr. Pemberton
Joby Baker - Bandido leader
Mike Mazurki - Mountain Ox
Alan Carney - Joe Turner
Parley Baer - Chief Executioner
Arthur Hunnicutt - Referee
Dub Taylor - Timekeeper
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez - Bandido

Production:
James Neilson - Director
Bill Anderson Walt Disney - Producer
George Bruns - Composer
Lowell S. Hawley - Screen Writer
Alex Plasschaert - Choreography
Edward Colman - Cinematographer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
George Bruns - Songwriter
Mel Leven - Songwriter
Richard M. Sherman - Songwriter
Robert B. - Songwriter
Sid Fleischman - Book Author

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