Film · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

Hansel and Gretel (1923)

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.

Director

Alfred J. Goulding

Writers

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Country

United States

Language

English

Release date

December 26, 1923