The Gnome-Mobile is a 1967 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney Productions.
Based on the 1936 book The Gnomobile by Upton Sinclair, it was one of the last films personally supervised by Walt Disney.
[4] Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber, previously the Banks children in Mary Poppins (1964), portray Mulrooney's grandchildren Elizabeth and Rodney.
is going to Seattle to sell 50,000 acres of timberland and takes his customized 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II on the trip.
Knobby harbors immense hatred for humans because of their logging damage to the forests and the livelihood of gnomes.
from the asylum, rescue Jasper from Quaxton, and then set out to find Knobby, who had managed to escape earlier.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, calling the special effects "fascinating" and reporting that the kids in the audience "got their money's worth".
[5] Howard Thompson of The New York Times described it as "a good-natured but heavy-handed little comedy", finding that "the action and light-hearted spirit sag under a crisscross jumble of slapstick and broadly handled locomotion that flattens the fun".
[7] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The moppet audience for which 'The Gnome-Mobile' is intended will obviously find it a delight, funny and ingenious.
[8] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a whimsical fantasy in the Disney tradition of clean, honest fun, with a merrily tuneful title song, moderately ingenious trick work, and some unsophisticated comedy of which the highlight is a car chase in which the aristocratic old Rolls is pursued by a modern vehicle which bit by bit falls to pieces".