Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Taran 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.
- witch
- based on novel or book
- pig
- magic
- sword
- fairy
- villain
- dragon
- cauldron
- evil ruler
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Grant Bardsley
Taran (voice)
Susan Sheridan
Eilonwy (voice)
John Byner
Gurgi / Doli (voice)
Nigel Hawthorne
Fflewddur Fflam (voice)
- John Hurt — The Horned King (voice)
- Freddie Jones — Dallben (voice)
- Phil Fondacaro — Creeper / Henchman (voice)
- Arthur Malet — King Eidilleg (voice)
- Lindsay Rich — Fairfolk (voice)
- Brandon Call — Fairfolk (voice)
- Gregory Levinson — Fairfolk (voice)
- Eda Reiss Merin — Orddu (voice)
- Adele Malis-Morey — Orwen (voice)
- Billie Hayes — Orgoch (voice)
- Peter Renaday — Henchman (voice)
- Directed
- Richard Rich, Ted Berman
- Written
- Vance Gerry, Al Wilson, Richard Rich, Joe Hale, Roy Morita, Peter Young & 3 more
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 1,469 ratings
- Studio
- Silver Screen Partners II, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
