don not expect disney out of this 1987 live action version of the grimm brother vintage fairy tale . diana rigg of the television show the avenger deliver the only worthwhile performance and nobody else stand out in this lackluster but more accurate rendition of the classic yarn . the action start with the prince discover the glass coffin with snow white in it . afterward and we learn that the mother of our heroine die after she give birth and the dad marry the evil queen . the evil queen want to destroy snow white because her mirror remind her that she be the fair of the fair and the queen refuse to be upstage . she order a huntsman to take the young beauty into the wood and kill her . the evil queen demand that the huntsman bring back the heart of the heroine so she can keep it in a box . ala and the poor fellow do not have the nerve to do such a dastardly deed . anyway and snow white flees and wind up at the house of the seven dwarf and become their housekeeper . she cook their meal and keep their home clean . year pas and the evil queen learns from her mirror that the damsel have survive so she set out to kill her by herself . initially and she lace a bodice on snow white and our heroine pass out and the queen leaf . the dwarf cut the bodice off and snow white recovers . the queen masquerade the second time a an asian woman and give snow white a deadly comb . again and the dwarf saw the day . by now the dwarf have warn the witless snow white to not open the door and let anybody into their house . finally and the queen try again and give snow white a poison apple . no and snow white do not open the door but the queen manages to get the apple to her and our heroine wind up unconscious on the floor again . sarah patterson of the company of wolf be pretty but she doesn not do much other than look pretty . billy barty and who parlay his short stature into a film career and play one of the dwarf . eventually and the queen learn that snow white survive the apple and be about to be marry to a prince in an adjacent kingdom . the queen shatters her own mirror and set off to attend the wedding and not know that a each shard of the mirror fall to the ground that she grow even old and more ugly . again and diana rigg be the only reason to watch writer and director michael berz version of this story .