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The Talking Parcel is a British film of genre Animation with Freddie Jones
The Talking Parcel (1978)
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Add to a movie listThe Talking Parcel (also published as The Battle for Castle Cockatrice) is a 1974 book by Gerald Durrell in which children are transported to the fantasy land of Mythologia to save it from cockatrices. They are aided by a talking parrot and encounter many other magical creatures, including a mooncalf.
Actors
Freddie Jones
(Parrot)
Mollie Sugden
(Hortense, the Flying Train)
Roy Kinnear
(Ethelred)
Michael Hordern
(Oswald, the Sea Serpent)
Edward Kelsey
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