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The Thief and the Cobbler is a canadien film of genre Fantasy directed by Richard Williams with Matthew Broderick
The Thief and the Cobbler (1995)
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Add to a movie listThe Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film directed, co-written and co-produced by Canadian animator Richard Williams. The film is famous for its long, troubled history. Due to independent funding and complex animation, The Thief and the Cobbler was in and out of production for over two decades. It was finally placed into full production in 1988 when Warner Bros. agreed to finance and distribute the film. Negotiations broke down when production went over budget and behind schedule. Warner Bros. pulled out and a completion bond company assumed control of the film. The film was re-edited and restructured by producer Fred Calvert without Williams's involvement, and released in Australia and South Africa as The Princess and the Cobbler in 1993; two years later, Miramax released an even more heavily edited version of the film in North America under the title Arabian Knight.
With The Thief and the Cobbler being in production from 1964 until 1995, a total of 31 years, it surpassed the 20-year Guinness record by Tiefland (1954), though this was again surpassed in 2012 by the Russian animated film The Overcoat, which began production in 1981 and remains unfinished. This was, upon release, the last film of Kenneth Williams, who died in 1988, Sir Anthony Quayle, who died in 1989, and Vincent Price, who died in 1993. This is also, to date, the final film to feature Stanley Baxter.
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The plot summary follows the 1992 workprint version of the film. The film opens with a narrator describing a prosperous city called the Golden City, ruled by the sleepy King Nod and protected by three golden balls atop its tallest minaret. According to a prophecy, the city would fall to a race of warlike, one-eyed monsters, known as "one-eyes", should the balls be removed, and could only be saved by "the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things". Living in the city are the good-hearted cobbler Tack, named for the ubiquitous pair of tacks held in his mouth, and a nameless, unsuccessful yet persistent thief. Both characters have no dialogue.Actors
Matthew Broderick
(Tack (Arabian Knight))
Jennifer Beals
(Princess Yum Yum)
Jonathan Winters
(Thief)
Hilary Pritchard
(Princesse Yum-Yum)
Vincent Price
(Zig Zag)
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