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Release Date: 1985 Cast: John Byner, Phil Fondacaro, Billie Hayes, Nigel Hawthorne, Adele Malis-Morey, Susan Sheridan, Grant Bardsley, Freddie Jones, John Hurt, Eda Reiss Merin, John Huston
Categories: Movies, Fantasy Adventure, Sword and sorcery films, Children's/Family, Costume drama, Action, Animation, Fantasy, Sword and sorcery, Family Film, Adventure The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to American theatres on July 24, 1985. The 25th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it is based on The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that is based in turn on Welsh mythology.
The evil Horned King hopes to secure the magical Black Cauldron and to rule the world with its aid. He is opposed by the youths Taran and Princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam, and a wild creature named Gurgi.
The film is directed by Ted Berman and... MORE
The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to American theatres on July 24, 1985. The 25th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it is based on The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that is based in turn on Welsh mythology.
The evil Horned King hopes to secure the magical Black Cauldron and to rule the world with its aid. He is opposed by the youths Taran and Princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam, and a wild creature named Gurgi.
The film is directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich, who had directed the previous Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound. It features the voices of Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne and John Hurt. A video game based on the film was released in 1986.
Taran (Grant Bardsley) is "assistant pig-keeper" on the small farm Caer Dallben, home of Dallben (Freddie Jones) the enchanter. Taran dreams of becoming a great warrior, but must stop daydreaming because his charge, the oracular pig Hen Wen, is in danger. The Horned King (John Hurt), a fearsom, skeletal, undead king who wears antler horns on his head, hopes LESS
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