The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Color Cinematography in 1950.

During a Halloween party, Brom tells the terrifying tale of the Headless Horseman to scare the superstitious Ichabod. On his ride home, Ichabod is chased by the phantom, leading to a famously ambiguous ending where Ichabod vanishes, leaving only a shattered pumpkin behind.

Released on October 5, 1949, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is the 11th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon. It is a "package film," a format Disney used in the 1940s to combine shorter animated segments into a single feature-length movie during a period of economic hardship and reduced staff due to World War II.