Top cast:Phillips Smalley,Cleo Ridgely,Wilbur Hudson
Director:George Nichols
Genre:Animation
Region:Israel
Year:2008
Storyline:The imaginative, young Danny Strode had drawn a prophetic picture of the Strodes: Mommy, Uncle Tim, Grandma and Grandpa, all with bloody knives sticking into them, as they stood next to a black object labeled "THORN.Mundson rescues him with his ebony cane and its protruding stiletto dagger.[The revelation of the sexually-powerful cane-dagger is a perverse, compensating Freudian erect phallic substitute - "It is a most faithful, obedient friend.The Snyder-Gray case in the late 1920s prompted the release ofPicture Snatcher (1933)- it starred James Cagney as the daring newspaper photographer who took the taboo picture of a woman dying in the electric chair.[Note: The irony of Wood""s film role here was that her accidental drowning death in 1981, off of her yacht named theSplendour, was pre-figured by the shocking bathtub scene and an attempted suicidal drowning scene at the reservoir.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).