Films Directed by Don Bluth

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Films Directed by Don Bluth is written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1230479546 (ISBN 10) and 9781230479545 (ISBN 13).

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: All Dogs Go to Heaven, Pete's Dragon, The Land Before Time, Rock-a-Doodle, Titan A.E., The Secret of NIMH, Thumbelina, An American Tail, A Troll in Central Park, The Small One, The Pebble and the Penguin. Excerpt: All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds) and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise). Charlie is murdered, but he forsakes his place in Heaven to return to earth where he teams up with a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi) who teaches him a lesson about love. The film was produced at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland, funded by UK-based investors Goldcrest Films. On its cinema release it competed directly with an animated feature released at the same time, The Little Mermaid produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. While it did not repeat the box-office success of Sullivan Bluth's previous feature films (An American Tail and The Land Before Time) it was very successful on home video, becoming one of the biggest-selling VHS releases ever. The film inspired a theatrical sequel, a television series and a holiday direct-to-video film. In 1939, New Orleans, Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds), a mongrel dog with a con man's charm, is working with his gangster business partner, Carface Carruthers (Vic Tayback), at a casino fashioned out of a derelict oil tanker. Carface, unwilling to share the earnings, has Charlie imprisoned at the pound, but Charlie breaks out with the help of his best friend Itchy Itchiford (Dom DeLuise). To get Charlie out of the picture for good, Carface and his sidekick, Killer (Charles Nelson Reilly), plan and execute his murder. Charlie...