The Black Cauldron (1985)

Name: The Black Cauldron
Director: Ted Berman, Richard Rich
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Released: 1985
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 6.438
Cast: Adele Malis-Morey, Arthur Malet, Billie Hayes, Brandon Call, Eda Reiss Merin

Adventure Animation Family Fantasy

6.4 (1,484 votes)

1h 20m

Overview

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.

Details

Director: Ted Berman, Richard Rich
Writer: Lloyd Alexander, Peter Young, David Jonas
Original Language: English
Budget: $25,000,000

Cast

Adele Malis-Morey Arthur Malet Billie Hayes Brandon Call Eda Reiss Merin Freddie Jones Grant Bardsley Gregory Levinson John Byner John Hurt Lindsay Rich Nigel Hawthorne Peter Renaday Phil Fondacaro Susan Sheridan

Keywords

based on novel or book cauldron dragon dungeons and dragons evil ruler fairy halloween magic mystical quest pig sword teenage protagonist villain witch