Overview

A young boy named Milo unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth and, out of boredom, drives through it and enters a fantastical, animated kingdom in turmoil following the loss of its princesses, Rhyme and Reason.

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Box office
Made on a $2M budget
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Based on
Based on The Phantom Tollbooth
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Setting
Set in San Francisco
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Music
Music by Dean Elliott
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Details

Directors: Dave Monahan
Abe Levitow
Chuck Jones
Writers: Norton JusterBook
Chuck JonesScreenplay
Sam RosenScreenplay
Status: Released
Release date: November 7, 1970
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America

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Production

MGM Animation/Visual Arts

Cast

Butch PatrickMilo
Mel BlancOfficer Short Shrift / Dodecahedron / Demon of Insincerity (voice)
Daws ButlerWhether Man / Senses Taker / Terrible Trivium / Gelatinous Giant (voice)
Candy CandidoAwful DYNN (voice)
Hans ConriedKing Azaz / The MathemaGician (voice)
June ForayRalph / Faintly Macabre / Princess of Pure Reason (voice)
Patti GilbertPrincess of Sweet Rhyme (voice)
Shepard MenkenSpelling Bee / Chroma (voice)
Cliff Nortonakofonous A. Dischord / Tollbooth Speaker (voice)
Larry ThorTock the Watchdog (voice)
Les TremayneHumbug (voice)
Michael EarlRalph (uncredited)
Chuck JonesCable Car Passenger (uncredited)
Thurl RavenscroftLethargian (voice, uncredited)