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The Black Cauldron
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1985 animated film directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich
"The Black Cauldron" is a 1985 animated film directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich that tells a fantasy adventure story. It represents an important entry in Disney's animation catalog from the 1980s, though the specific details of its plot and cultural significance would require additional context to fully explain.
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6.4Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
Cast
- Grant Bardsley as Taran (voice)
- Susan Sheridan as Eilonwy (voice)
- John Byner as Gurgi / Doli (voice)
- Nigel Hawthorne as Fflewddur Fflam (voice)
- John Hurt as The Horned King (voice)
- Freddie Jones as Dallben (voice)
Themes
- witch
- based on novel or book
- pig
- magic
- sword
- fairy
- villain
- dragon
- cauldron
- evil ruler
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Encyclopedic overview
The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain series of novels, and directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich. Produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, it stars Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet, John Byner, Phil Fondacaro, and John Hurt, with John Huston serving as the narrator for the prologue.
Disney acquired the film rights to the books in 1973, with production beginning in 1980. It was originally scheduled to be released at Christmas 1984, but several scenes, particularly in the film's climax, were found to be disturbing to children during a test screening. The newly appointed Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered the scenes to be cut, which caused its release to be delayed to 1985. It was the first Disney animated film to receive a PG rating, as well as the first Disney animated film to feature computer-generated imagery.
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