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Although the film was a financial success, netting the studio a slim profit of $ 226, 000, some critics were less enthusiastic to the film, not so much to the animated portions as to the live-action portions.

Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.

" However, the film also received positive notice.

Time magazine called the film " topnotch Disney.

" In 2003, the Online Film Critics Society ranked the film as the 67th greatest animated film of all time.