The Princess and the Cobbler (1993)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Richard Williams

Writers:

Richard Williams (screenplay) &
Margaret French (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

25 August 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy

Plot:

The film tells a story which takes place in an oriental city from the tales of thousand and one night...

Plot Keywords:

Unfinished Film | Dream Like | Obsessed Love | Kleptomaniac | Independent Film

Cast

Vincent Price	...	Zig-Zag the Grand Vizier (voice)
Anthony Quayle	...	King Nod (voice)
Hilary Pritchard	...	Princess Yum-Yum (voice)
Windsor Davies	...	Chief Roofless (voice)
Paul Matthews	...	Mighty One-Eye (voice)
Joan Sims	...	Nurse / Mad Holy Old Witch (voice)
Clinton Sundberg	...	Dying Soldier (voice)
Donald Pleasence	...	Phido the Vulture (voice)
Sean Connery	...	Tack the Cobbler (voice) (unconfirmed)
Felix Aylmer	...	Narrator (voice)
Kenneth Williams	...	Goblet / Tickle (voice)
Stanley Baxter	...	Gofer / Slap (voice)
George Melly	...	Dwarf (voice)
Eddie Byrne	...	Hoof (voice)
Thick Wilson	...	Hook (voice)

Also Known As:

Arabian Knight (USA) (recut version)
Once... (UK) (working title)
The Amazing Nasruddin (UK) (working title)
The Majestic Fool (UK) (working title)
The Thief Who Never Gave Up (UK) (working title)
The Thief and the Cobbler (USA) (recut version)

Runtime:

72 min | 91 min (working print) | Australia:77 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:G | Australia:G (1994) | South Korea:All | Spain:T | USA:G

Company:

Richard Williams Productions

Trivia:

Over 1000 on-screen deaths occur in the uncut 90 min. version, not counting animals. The 80 min. version version released as The Princess and the Cobbler has only 98. Arabian Knight, the 72 min. Miramax Films version, shows 54.

Quotes:

Princess Yum Yum: [referring to Tack] *Who* is this?
Zigzag: O Greatest King of all the Earth, this lowball
[uses cane to stop Tack from walking off]
Zigzag: cobbler of no worth, attacked me in the square today! Shall we take his head away?
King Nod: [waking up] What? No, no, if you really think so, Zigzag.
Princess Yum Yum: But what has he done?
Zigzag: [takes tack from Tack's mouth] A*ttacked* me!
Princess Yum Yum: *Really*?
Zigzag: [hisses] Yes!

Movie Connections:

Featured in I Drew Roger Rabbit (1988) (TV)

The Coolest!

My friend and I are huge Vincent Price fans. We're trying to see every movie Price has made. We heard that in 1995 an animated movie called Arabian Knight with Price as the evil Zigzag. We read about its troubled production and I must say we were not expecting much.

When we rented it we were utterly amazed. This film is wonderful! The animation is astounding. Roger Williams is one hell of an animator. Sure, it has problems, but while watching it I thought to myself that if this movie were completed in the late 1960s or early 1970s, it would have been gone down in history as one of the greatest animated films of all time. It would have become a cult classic with a HUGE following!