The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972): Cast & Plot

Geppetto, a woodcarver, crafts a puppet named Pinocchio, Andrea Balestri to earn a living as a touring entertainer. While shaping the wooden figure, Geppetto discovers the puppet is alive, and Pinocchio dashes out into the village as soon as the craft is finished. The momentary freedom is short-lived: bystanders misread Geppetto’s attempt to discipline the wayward puppet, and the carpenter is arrested. Left alone at home, Pinocchio encounters a talking cricket whose moralizing sits like a rulebook on the puppet’s shoulders. The cricket’s constant lectures grate on Pinocchio, and tragedy strikes when the puppet, in a moment of frustration, strikes the cricket with a hammer, killing him. The misstep leaves Pinocchio hungry in Geppetto’s absence and, worse, leads to him burning his feet in a brazier.