Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
- love of one's life
- magic
- magic show
- prince
- sorcerer's apprentice
- enchantment
- unicorn
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mia Farrow
Unicorn / Amalthea (voice)
Alan Arkin
Schmendrick (voice)
Tammy Grimes
Molly Grue (voice)
Jeff Bridges
Prince Lir (voice)
- Christopher Lee — King Haggard (voice)
- Angela Lansbury — Mommy Fortuna (voice)
- Robert Klein — The Butterfly (voice)
- Keenan Wynn — Captain Cully / Harpy (voice)
- Paul Frees — Mabruk (voice)
- René Auberjonois — The Skull (voice)
- Theodore Gottlieb — Ruhk (voice)
- Don Messick — The Cat (voice)
- Jack Lester — Hunter #1 / Old Farmer / Cully's Men (voice)
- Nellie Bellflower — The Tree (voice)
- Ed Peck — Jack Jingley / Cully's Men (voice)
- Directed
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
- Written
- Peter S. Beagle
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 616 ratings
- Studio
- Rankin/Bass Productions, ITC Entertainment
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.
