That sensibility comes to play in this story of a nine-year-old orphan who runs away from his brutal adoptive home with his protective "imaginary" friend Elliott, in reality a friendly green dragon who only sporadically reveals himself to anyone other than the boy. Still, Miller had a keen sense for rousing boyhood adventure, displayed in his screenplays for the swashbucklers The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Sea Hawk (1940), and The Black Swan (1942). He also wrote dialogue for such decidedly non-Disney pictures as the original Scarface (1932) and Marked Woman (1937), starring Bette Davis in a story based on the bust of a notorious real-life prostitution ring. Miller, writer of many gritty dramas for Warner Brothers tough guys James Cagney, Edward G. This combination live-action and animated musical fantasy-comedy from Disney was adapted from an unpublished short story by an improbable source, Seton I.
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