The Gnomes' Great Adventure

1987 film by Harvey Weinstein
  • 1987 (1987)
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
75 minutes (1987 release), 90 minutes (1995 release)CountrySpain

The Gnomes' Great Adventure (La gran aventura de los gnomos) is a Spanish animated film, two dubs of the film exist, one produced by Miramax in 1987 with the series' dub cast and a few celebrity voices, and another produced in 1995 in the U.K.

Harvey Weinstein is credited as the director of the first English dub. first released in 1988.[1] The film was Weinstein's second and final directorial effort, following Playing for Keeps (1986). Based on The World of David the Gnome, it follows the life and adventures of the gnomes as they struggle to outwit enemy trolls.

Despite the film's obscurity, some well known actors contributed to it, including Tom Bosley, Christopher Plummer, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding and Frank Gorshin. The English soundtrack to the film was rerecorded in 1995 by the London-based company Village Productions, Ltd. with an entirely different voice cast.

Cast

Character Original 1987 dub 1995 dub
David José María Cordero Tom Bosley Stuart Organ
Lisa Matilde Conesa Jane Woods Claire Woyka
Holler Paco Hernández Frank Gorshin Stephen Bent
Swift Ramón Langa Vlasta Vrána Steve Edwin
Pit José Moratalla Adrian Knight Gavin Muir
Pat Ángel Egido Rob Roy Stephen Bent

Additional Voices

  • Original: Manuel Peiró (Pot), Teófilo Martínez (Narrator)
  • 1987 dub: Marc Denis (Pot), Christopher Plummer (Narrator, Old Man), Bob Elliott (Fred), Ray Goulding (Ed), Frank Gorshin (Carlo, Omar, Prince), Tony Randall (Gnome King, Ghost of the Black Lake), Richard Dumont (King)
  • 1995 dub: Gavin Muir (Old Man, King), Juliet Prague (Tom), Regina Reagan (Susan, Twinkle), John Vernon (Omar, Master Ghost)

Crew

1987 English dub

  • Directed by Harvey Weinstein
  • Produced by Bob Weinstein
  • Screenplay by Shelly Altman and Mike Zettler
  • Edited by Ed Glass
  • Executive Producer: Claudio Biern Boyd
  • Executives in Charge of Production: Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg
  • Associate Producer: Maria Aragon
  • Music Composed and Performed by Bob Jewett and Jack Maeby

1995 English dub

  • Music and Song by Bill Nabb and Terry Wilson
  • Production Assistant: Olga Pla
  • Production Coordinator: Cristina Nicolau
  • Post-Production: Claudio Biern Lliviria and Ray Hampson
  • Production Supervisor: Olivia Borricon
  • Associate Producer: Jose Manuel Iglesias
  • Created for Television by Claudio Biern Boyd

References

  1. ^ "The Gnomes' Great Adventure". Retrieved 22 October 2017 – via www.imdb.com.

External links

  • The Gnomes' Great Adventure at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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