"Les aventures de Tintin" Le sceptre d'Ottokar: Première partie (????)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Stéphane Bernasconi

Writers:

Amélie Aubert (scenario director)
Martin Brossollet (adaptation)

TV Series:

"Les aventures de Tintin" (1991)

Original Air Date:

???? (Season 2, Episode 4)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Mystery

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Fictitious Country | Imaginary Country | Fictional City | Tintin | Dog

Cast

Thierry Wermuth	...	Tintin (voice)
Christian Pellissier	...	Le capitaine Haddock (voice) (credit only) (as Christian Pelissier)
Henri Labussière	...	Le professeur Tournesol (voice) (credit only)
Yves Barsacq	...	Dupont (voice)
Jean-Pierre Moulin	...	Dupond (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Colin O'Meara	...	Tintin (voice: English version)
Susan Roman	...	Snowy (voice)

Series Cast

These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode?

Vernon Chapman	...	Nestor (voice)
Dan Hennessey	...	Detective Thomson (voice)
Maureen Forrester	...	Signora Bianca Castafiore (voice)
Harvey Atkin	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Peter Meech	...	Radio Announcer (voice)

Also Known As:

"Les aventures de Tintin": King Ottokar's Scepter: Part 1 (#2.4) (USA)

King Ottokar's Sceptre (Part 1 of 2)

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After Tintin finds a suitcase in a park, he returns it to the owner Professor Hector Alembick, who's an expert on seals. After showing Tintin his prized seal that belonged to Syldavian King Ottokar IV, he offers Tintin a secretary job for when he travels to Syldavia. Tintin declines, but when he discovers there's some suspicious people lurking about and they're surveillance Alembick. After getting warnings to steer clear, he takes up the professor's original offer. On his way there, he gets rather concerned about strange developments within the professor's personality. He suspicions are correct, when suddenly he's dropped out of the plane, but comes away safely. Though he stumbles across a booklet which plans to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. So he goes to the police in the nearest town, which after showing them the evidence they get him some transport to reach the castle, but there are some obstacles along the way.

"King Ottokar's Sceptre" is writer and illustrator Herge's eighth comic strip album of "The Adventures of Tintin" and the fourth episode (part 1 of 2) of Season 2. A political interest flows from this well-thought up detective story, which plays it all in a rather subdued manner and rallies up a well kept mystery. What makes this a curious outing, is there's quite a focus on the elegant backdrop, which does stick out and gives it some unexpected class and a dressed up shine. Tintin really has luck on his side, and the accident prone Thompsons join in for the fun. The pacing of this one leisurely ticks along, but when the action occurs and conspiracy unfolds (mainly in the second half), it's at full speed. This particular adventure is one of the most solid and multi-layered tales that delivers across the board.