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The Hobbit

The Hobbit

1977
Family/Kids, Fantasy
TV Movie
1h 30m
A homebody demi-human in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. (imdb)
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Directed by:

Jules Bass
Jules-Bass
33 total credits
Credits include: The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus
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Arthur Rankin Jr.
Arthur-Rankin-Jr
32 total credits
Credits include: The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus
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Writers:

J.R.R. Tolkien
JRR-Tolkien
15 total credits
Credits include: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Lord of the Rings
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Romeo Muller
Romeo-Muller
29 total credits
Credits include: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Return of the King
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Starring:

Orson Bean
Orson-Bean
30 total credits
Credits include: Being John Malkovich, Anatomy of a Murder, The Equalizer 2, The Hobbit and The Return of the King
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John Huston
John-Huston
110 total credits
John Huston directed some of the most famous movies of the 20th century, including the Humphrey Bogart classics The Maltese Falcon (1941), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The African Queen (1951). A writer, painter, big-game hunter, actor, director and larger-than-life character off-screen, Huston was the son of actor Walter Huston and grew up around vaudeville until he was a teenager.
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Cyril Ritchard
Cyril-Ritchard
9 total credits
Credits include: The Hobbit, Blackmail, Piccadilly, Peter Pan and The Daydreamer
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Otto Preminger
Otto-Preminger
45 total credits
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 - 23 April 1986) was an Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director. After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship...(Wikipedia)
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Richard Boone
Richard-Boone
53 total credits
Credits include: The Hobbit, The Shootist, Hombre, The Tall T and The Alamo
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Hans Conried
Hans-Conried
76 total credits
Credits include: Peter Pan, The Hobbit, On the Town, Bus Stop and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
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Brother Theodore
Brother-Theodore
9 total credits
Credits include: The Burbs, The Hobbit, The Return of the King, Devil's Express and Apple Pie
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Country:

USA

Language:

English

The Hobbit

1977
Family/Kids, Fantasy
TV Movie
1h 30m
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Ratings & Reviews

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23 Mar 2023
78
40th
Yeah it's mediocre, but at least it's not mediocre AND nine hours long, like certain other Hobbit adaptations I could name.
16 Mar 2019
4
44th
There has to be a middle ground between “8-hour CGI nightmare that is mostly made up action movie bullshit” and “70-minute fast-forward through the book that looks like it was animated with pocket change” that we can aim for with a Hobbit movie.
15 Aug 2020
57
12th
This animated version of The Hobbit may be faithful to the books, but it lacks the cinematic flair to do the classic story justice. The film adapts the many, many songs at the expense of character development and context to the plot. The animation is passable, but not pretty. My biggest complaint was the voice acting which had an undesirable "accented" feel. The film tells a story, but delivers no immersion into Middle-Earth that Jackson's lengthy version does.
24 Jul 2019
38
35th
It's an odd combination of faithful to the source material yet cheaply and incompetently made. It is bad, undeniably bad, but it's ineptitude kind of won me over by the end.
13 Aug 2010
100
94th
One of the most attention grabbing, wish-fulfilling, dreamlike and greatly animated films of the west ever done. An awful shine close to the book, too.
05 Apr 2008
45
31st
The American accents are the most jarring aspect of this production, and Orson Bean is especially miscast as Bilbo. But the late, great Brother Theodore makes for a smashing Gollum. It's limited animation and the story is necessarily abbreviated, but on the whole it's not bad. I watch it up front of the extended versions of Jackson's RINGS movies, and mostly enjoy the combination. It will do, anyway, until the live action HOBBIT appears in a few years. . .
03 Mar 2008
60
28th
The greeeeaaaatest adveeeentuuuure...
24 Feb 2007
76
50th
...fun...sexy time
17 Apr 2018
6
42nd
Still better than the Peter Jackson movies.
11 Oct 2012
40
19th
How they have managed to make unsympathetic characters out of Bilbo and Gandalf is beyond me. A curiosity indeed.
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Cast & Info

Directed by:

Jules Bass
Jules-Bass
33 total credits
Credits include: The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus
polygon
,
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Arthur-Rankin-Jr
32 total credits
Credits include: The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a Santa Claus
polygon

Writers:

J.R.R. Tolkien
JRR-Tolkien
15 total credits
Credits include: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Lord of the Rings
polygon
,
Romeo Muller
Romeo-Muller
29 total credits
Credits include: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Hobbit, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Return of the King
polygon

Starring:

Orson Bean
Orson-Bean
30 total credits
Credits include: Being John Malkovich, Anatomy of a Murder, The Equalizer 2, The Hobbit and The Return of the King
polygon
,
John Huston
John-Huston
110 total credits
John Huston directed some of the most famous movies of the 20th century, including the Humphrey Bogart classics The Maltese Falcon (1941), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The African Queen (1951). A writer, painter, big-game hunter, actor, director and larger-than-life character off-screen, Huston was the son of actor Walter Huston and grew up around vaudeville until he was a teenager.
polygon
,
Cyril Ritchard
Cyril-Ritchard
9 total credits
Credits include: The Hobbit, Blackmail, Piccadilly, Peter Pan and The Daydreamer
polygon
,
Otto Preminger
Otto-Preminger
45 total credits
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 - 23 April 1986) was an Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director. After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship...(Wikipedia)
polygon
,
Richard Boone
Richard-Boone
53 total credits
Credits include: The Hobbit, The Shootist, Hombre, The Tall T and The Alamo
polygon
,
Hans Conried
Hans-Conried
76 total credits
Credits include: Peter Pan, The Hobbit, On the Town, Bus Stop and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
polygon
,
Brother Theodore
Brother-Theodore
9 total credits
Credits include: The Burbs, The Hobbit, The Return of the King, Devil's Express and Apple Pie
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Country:

USA

Language:

English
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