The Black Cauldron (1985)

United States of America

Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Silver Screen Partners II, Walt Disney Pictures

Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, John Byner, Nigel Hawthorne, John Hurt, Freddie Jones

Ted Berman, Richard Rich

Roy Edward Disney

Taglines: Hidden by darkness. Guarded by witches. Discovered by a boy. Stolen by a king. Whoever owns it will rule the world. Or destroy it.

based on novel or book, pig, magic, sword, fairy, dragon, fantasy world, cauldron, evil ruler, mystical quest, teenage protagonist

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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