The Return of the King with Orson Bean: DVD Cover
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The Return of the King Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Cast: Orson Bean

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/11/2001
  • Original Release: 1980
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 7,102

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Interactive menus; Tolkien and filmmaker highlights; Scene access; Subtitles: English, Français, & Español

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Credits
2. Prologue: a ring's tale
3. Bilbo's farewell
4. Frodo's quest [2:37]
5. Saruman's sorcery [2:34]
6. Sinister horseman [2:27]
7. Inn at Bree [1:58]
8. Aragorn's vow [2:24]
9. Black Riders invade [4:23]
10. Rider swordsman [3:25]
11. Cornered [3:11]
12. Wall of water [1:49]
13. Gandalf's update [3:14]
14. Council of Elrond [2:57]
15. Frodo's quest [2:54]
16. Change in route [2:24]
17. Grabbed at the gateway [5:38]
18. Inside the mine [4:43]
19. Under siege [2:32]
20. Balrog strikes [3:17]
21. Homage to Gandalf [5:41]
22. Galadriel's test [2:24]
23. Borimir's madness [1:51]
24. Borimir's sacrifice [4:06]
25. Following the Orcs [4:17]
26. Whiteskins attack [3:33]
27. The Gollum
28. Escape in mid-battle [2:25]
29. Treebeard
30. Back from the abyss [:56]
0. Theoden of Rohan
0. Gollum gest touchy
0. The Orcs advance
0. Cave retreat
0. Two weary hobbits
0. Outnumbered
0. Gandalf triumphant
0. End Credits

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Editorial Reviews

The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins, vows to destroy the Ring, even if it costs him his own life. He carries the Ring to the volcanic innards of Mount Doom. All this he does on behalf of good-guy Aragon, who will never be able to escape the dreaded land of Sauron so long as the Ring retains its evil powers. Orson Bean, who'd been the voice of Bilbo Baggins in the 1977 Hobbit cartoon special, returns to portray Frodo. Return of the King originally aired May 11, 1980. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Return of the Kingby Anonymous

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February 24, 2004: I wish this had left off from where the LOTR cartoon had left off, and it didn't. And the singing is so annoying, they say about five lines and then they start singing! Another annoying thing is that it keeps going FORWARD and shows them sailing off and it totally ruins it! Also the black riders barely stay true to the book. Terrible animation too.

Return of the Kingby Anonymous

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December 28, 2003: This is a terrible interpertation of Tolkien's great volume and history The Lord of the Rings. The volume itself, dating back to the 1940's is an amazing, epic, noble story that stays with you and teaches you. In chossing to read this volume, you are choosinf to change yourself and your outlook. Perhaps that is why I do not like cheap, animated editions of such an amazing work. The voices are computer generated, and no or little work was put into the making of this film. Peter Jackson's new Lord of the Rings is an epic, thrilling adventure and journey, I think it justifies the book. Many Tolkien readers refuse to see or like the movie, because they left out their favourite parts or characters, such as Tom Bombadill, but I think they kept the same ambiance and feel that Tolkien intended.


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