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The Black Cauldron

Release Date:July 24, 1985

Running Time:80 min

Genres:Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Family

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Cast

Grant Bardsley Susan Sheridan John Byner Nigel Hawthorne John Hurt Freddie Jones Phil Fondacaro Arthur Malet Lindsay Rich Brandon Call Gregory Levinson Eda Reiss Merin

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Synopsis

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.

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