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Release Date: 1985

Cast: John Hurt, Eda Reiss Merin, John Huston, John Byner, Grant Bardsley, Nigel Hawthorne, Adele Malis-Morey, Billie Hayes, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Phil Fondacaro

Categories: Movies, Action, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Costume Drama, Sword And Sorcery Films, Sword And Sorcery, Fantasy Adventure, Children'S/Family

The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to American theatres on July 24, 1985. Number twenty-five in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, 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 (see poster image) 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... MORE

The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to American theatres on July 24, 1985. Number twenty-five in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, 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 (see poster image) 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 is "Assistant Pig-Keeper" on the small farm Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the enchanter. He dreams of becoming a great warrior, but must stop daydreaming because his charge, the oracular pig Hen Wen, is in danger. The Horned King hopes she will help him find the Black Cauldron, which has the power to restore a kind of life to the LESS