A surprisingly dark adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Disney’s second feature length animated film is every bit as memorable as Snow White. Far from the sanitized fantasy stories that would typify Disney films over the following decades, Pinocchio has a number of nightmarish sequences – particularly the scenes on Pleasure Island featuring children being turned into donkeys (who never end up being rescued), and the famous encounter with Monstro the whale. Modern audiences may feel a bit uncomfortable with the odd (and certainly unintentional) undercurrent of child abuse, but there’s no denying that even at this early
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