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Moonbird

Moonbird

5,5 /10 (29 Votes)
1959 EN 10 min

Overview

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

Release date

29/01/1959

Votes

29

Popularity

0.2

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

10 min

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-02-10

⭐ 6

A young boy and his baby brother find their bird has escaped and so in the middle of the night, the take their bag of bait into the garden where they hope to lure it back into it's cage. The snag is that the younger sibling is a bit noisy. He speaks loudly. He cries loudly. He walks loudly. He is to stealth what Herod was to childcare. Speaking of that gentleman, I did find the extremely accurate imitation of the baby speech - especially the eye-watering rendition of "I've Been Working on the Railroad" did get under my fingernails to the point where I'd have readily summoned one of his soldier…

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