The Wind in the Willows (1987 film) The Wind in the Willows (1987 film) The Wind in the Willows is a 1987 American animated musical television film directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass. It is an adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. Set in a pastoral version of England, the film focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters (Moley, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Mr. Badger) and contains themes of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. The film features the voices of Charles Nelson Reilly, Roddy McDowall, José Ferrer, and Eddie Bracken. The screenplay was written by Romeo Muller, a long-time Rankin/Bass writer whose
Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths is a British novelist, and the founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. He is the winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards. Neil Griffiths was born in south London, and grew up in "various places in the South East of England". Griffiths has worked in television, and has written for BBC Radio 4. His first novel, "Betrayal in Naples", won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and "Saving Caravaggio" was shortlisted for the best novel in the Costa