The Figurehead

• Movies
• 1952-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 0h 7m
• GB
• Romance - Animation - Fantasy

• 7.0
• 1
• Trailer

Production

Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films

Storyline

A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.