×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

The Return of the King (U.S. special)

Have you seen this? want to / seen some / seen all

Alternative title:
De terugkeer van de koning (Dutch)
El retorno del rey (Spanish)
Il ritorno del re (Italian)
Kongen vender tilbage (Danish)
Le retour du roi (French)
Ô no kikan (Japanese)
O Retorno do Rei (Portuguese)
Powrót króla (Polish)
Sagan om konungens återkomst (Swedish)
Возвращение короля (Russian)
王の帰還 (Japanese)
Genres: fantasy
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: The fate of Middle Earth rests upon the hands of the two hobbit friends Frodo & Sam who were given the task to travel to Mount Doom with the sole purpose to destroy the Ruling Ring once and for all. In order to get to Mount Doom, they must traverse across the dreaded land of Mordor and keep an eye on Gollum, the degenerated hobbit who only wants the ring for his own. All this happens while Gandalf and an army of allies wage a fierce battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith. As the battle commences, Sauron seems to have slowly regained his power as the source of his power, the Ruling Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its holder.
Running time: 98 minutes
Vintage: 1980-05-11
Other articles: Show:
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

DVD (Region 1)
    The Return of the King (DVD) 2014-07-22 (from $16.78)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Character Design: Tsuguyuki Kubo
Animation Director:
Katsuhisa Yamada
Kouichi Sasaki

Animation Coordination: Tōru Hara
Associate producer: Masaki Iizuka
Background Design: Minoru Nishida
Continuity Design: Tsuguyuki Kubo
(none)
Japanese companies
Production: Top Craft
English staff
English cast
Screenplay: Romeo Muller
Original creator: J.R.R. Tolkien
Character Design: Lester Abrams

Insert Song Performance:
Paul Frees
Thurl Ravenscroft
Sound Effects: Tom Clack
Theme Song Performance: Glenn Yarbrough
Orson Bean as Frodo Baggins
Roddy McDowall as Samwise Gamgee

Casey Kasem as Merry Brandybuck
John Huston as Gandalf
Nellie Bellflower as Éowyn
Orson Bean as Bilbo Baggins
Paul Frees as Elrond
Sonny Melendrez as Pippin Took
Theodore Bikel as Aragorn
Theodore Gottlieb as Gollum
William Conrad as Denethor

Don Messick as
Easterling
King Théoden
The Mouth of Sauron
Glenn Yarbrough as Minstrel of Gondor
John Stephenson as
Gondorian Guard
Lord of the Nazgul
Paul Frees as
Orc
Shagrat
Snaga
Uruk-hai
English companies
Broadcaster:
ABC (1980)
Telepictures Corporation (1980)
Distributor:
Anchor Bay Entertainment (1992, VHS)
RCA (CED Videodisc)
Roadshow Home Video (Australia, VHS)
Solar Home Video (VHS, 1991)
Sony Video
Warner Home Video (1995, VHS; 1991, VHS; 1993, VHS; 2001, DVD; 2004, DVD; 2007, DVD; 2014, DVD)
Xenon Video (VHS, 1991)
Internet Streaming: HBO Max
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Distributor: Warner Home Video (2001, VHS)
Spanish cast
(none)

This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

Compare this anime's credits with others

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anime anthology