I first encountered Horton as the narrator of the Bullkwinkle cartoon's "Fractured Fairy Tales," so I've loved him since childhood.
Nice! My childhood introduction was Arsenic and Old Lace, which also accounts for my affection for Peter Lorre.
(Roar of the Dragon and Going Highbrow are honorable mentions because they are not in fact very good movies, Horton's just very good in them. I would recommend any of the others on their own merits and I totally support rewatching Holiday. It is one of the movies I have never managed to write about because I love it so much.)
[edit] Lost Horizon does deserve a warning for period-typical Orientalism including Sam Jaffe in Tibetan yellowface, but it also ships Horton and Thomas Mitchell, so.
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Nice! My childhood introduction was Arsenic and Old Lace, which also accounts for my affection for Peter Lorre.
(Roar of the Dragon and Going Highbrow are honorable mentions because they are not in fact very good movies, Horton's just very good in them. I would recommend any of the others on their own merits and I totally support rewatching Holiday. It is one of the movies I have never managed to write about because I love it so much.)
[edit] Lost Horizon does deserve a warning for period-typical Orientalism including Sam Jaffe in Tibetan yellowface, but it also ships Horton and Thomas Mitchell, so.