While it's not exactly a point of pride, at one point in the movie, a cloud of dust appears to spell out SEX. The most common explanation is that the letters actually read SFX, a reference to the special effects team.

Possible racism: During one musical number, a group of faceless black laborers sing the lyrics "We work all day, we work all night. We never learned to read or write."

Urban legend states that a disgruntled artist drew a penis in one of the spires of the castle on the cover art for this movie. Though one of the spires does look phallic, supposedly that's only because an artist was rushing to finish the piece late at night.

The title character eats mysterious wafers, another character smokes hookah and the whole movie is just plain trippy. Many accused the flick of promoting drug use, a charge that wasn't helped by its cult popularity during the '70s as a "head film" on college campuses.

This was the first Disney movie to use the word "damn" and also features a fantasy sequence involving a pole dance. That's on top of the adult themes of sexual obsession, prejudice and infanticide.

Despite winning an Oscar, this film has never been released on home video in America because of its racial material.

The violent material in this film (not usually regarded as part of the Disney canon) led to extensive editing and Disney's first PG rating. Among the scenes that had to be cut: depictions of an army of undead soldiers, a violent swordfight and a woman being left partially nude when her dress rips.

Two frames had to be cut from this movie because they included a photograph of a topless woman, visible as the title characters fly past an apartment building.

A group of Indians sing the song "What Made the Red Man Red?"

Orthodox Jews fought Disney over posters for this film, which portrayed the title character wearing nothing but a loincloth. They argued that the poster didn't promote a suitable way of living.