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The Hobbit (1977) 6.5
A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. |
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Bilbo Baggins
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Smaug
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Thorin
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Gandalf the Grey
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Elvenking
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Cyril Ritchard | ... |
Elrond
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Brother Theodore | ... |
Gollum
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Glenn Yarbrough | ... |
The Balladeer
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Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by an evil dragon named Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't.... Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 November 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lyrics adapted by Jules Bass
Music by Maury Laws
Performed by Glenn Yarbrough
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Trivia
The words sung after Bard and the Elvenking leave the mountain prior to the battle ("The dragon is withered...") are taken from a song in the book sung when Bilbo and Gandalf return to Rivendell on their way home. See more »Goofs
Bilbo tells the dwarves to "run back to the wood-elf clearing" while he fights a rearguard action against the Mirkwood spiders. However, the company has not yet met the wood-elves. When they reach the clearing, Bilbo notes that the wood-elves "had returned, armed for battle". This is the first time we see the wood-elves. There is a scene from the book which was clearly scripted but is missing from the animation, where the starving dwarves attempt to gate-crash a gathering of wood-elves in a clearing. See more »Quotes
Gollum: [Bilbo has just escaped with the ring] Thief! Thief! Baggins! We hates it! Hates it! FOREVER!See more »
Soundtracks
"The Road Goes Ever On and On"Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lyrics adapted by Jules Bass
Music by Maury Laws
Performed by Glenn Yarbrough
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This was what introduced me to the Lord of the Rings, back in '77, when I was in 6th grade, it got the kids in my class to reading the trilogy and etc. Personally, I was all up for watching this, in the fall of '77, then the local TV station ran something else(MULLIGANS' STEW?!?) in its place. We were crushed in my family. I DID buy the record/sound track instead and listened to it to Death. Loved it-the voices and artwork both.
Didn't actually See this til '85...though had caught parts here and there...my thinking then and now is the same--Rankin-Bass did a fine job with it. Yes its done by Japanese animators, and No it isn't outta Allen Lee or whomever else' kind of drawing. But they stuck some interesting spins on what elves, dwarves, Wizards, Dragons and Hobbits look like, along with trolls and whatever, personally I found it to be interesting.
And how can you knock the voices-I mean-John Huston? Hans Conried, Cyril Ritchard, Theodore Bikel, Richard Boone, Don Messick, Orson Bean-and last but not least-Otto Preminger. Some legends here guys, esp. Otto and JHuston. I loved it! Rankin-Bass did make it more for kids, definately, and took some cuts here and there-Beorn and the Arkenstone bye-bye, for example, and no one is claiming the animation is up to, say, 'Aladdin' standards, but on its own, it works fine.
*** outta ****, pretty good, actually.
And Where is Leonard Maltin's review? somehow he missed this one...