Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
- based on novel or book
- elves
- shire
- musical
- sequel
- tower
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Orson Bean
Frodo Baggins / Bilbo Baggins (voice)
Roddy McDowall
Samwise Gamgee (voice)
John Huston
Gandalf (voice)
Theodore Gottlieb
Gollum (voice)
- Casey Kasem — Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck (voice)
- Sonny Melendrez — Peregrin 'Pippin' Took (voice)
- Theodore Bikel — Aragorn (voice)
- William Conrad — Lord Denethor (voice)
- Don Messick — King Theoden / Easterling / The Mouth of Sauron (voice)
- Paul Frees — Orc / Uruk-Hai / Capt. Shagrat / Lt. Snaga / Lord Elrond (vo
- John Stephenson — Gondorian Guard / Dwimmerlaik - The Witch-King of Angmar (vo
- Nellie Bellflower — Eowyn / Dernhelm (voice)
- Glenn Yarbrough — The Minstrel (voice)
- Directed
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
- Written
- Romeo Muller
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 227 ratings
- Studio
- Rankin/Bass Productions, Topcraft
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1977The Hobbit
Where it starts.
The Return of the King
1980 · You’re here
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.
