Basil, private detective

Basil, private detective is the 33e feature film of animation and the 26e " Traditional " studios Disney. Left in 1986, it is inspired by the series of novels of Paul Galdone and Eve Titus published between 1958 and 1982, themselves based on the character of Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887.

Synopsis

In this night of the year 1897, Mr. Flaversham, brilliant inventive, celebrates the birthday of his/her daughter small Olivia. But the festival turns short. A horrible creature kidnaps it. His/her little girl, déboussolée, decides to seek of the assistance near the famous Basil detective and meets on the way of Baker Street Doctor David Q. Dawson, army medical officer of return of Afghanistan. But Basil is shown well not very understanding until the moment when it understands that the author of removal perhaps only Fidget, a faithful bat and stupid servant of cruel and démoniaque Professor Ratigan. Reigning on the low districts of London, the Unpleasant one has other obsessions only to reverse the Queen of the Mice to the Palais of Buckingham to seize the capacity. Then begin for our three friends long and difficult sown investigation of obstacles and dangers…

Synopsis of the site http://www.zuzudisney.com

Data sheet

  • Title: Basil, private detective
  • original Title: The Great Foams Detective
  • Réalisation: Ron Lenient, Burny Mattinson, David Michener and John Musker, assistés of Timothy J.O'Donnell and Mark A. Hester
  • Scenario: Ron Lenient, Vance Gerry, Steve Hulett, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, Bruce Morris, John Musker, Matthew O' Callaghan, Melvin Shaw and Peter Young according to Basil off Baker Street of Paul Galdone and Eve Titus
  • Design graphic:
    • Artistic director: Guy Vasilovich
    • Framing (Layout): David A. Dunnet, daN Hansen, Karen A. Keller, Gil Dicicco, Michael Peraza Jr. and Edward L. Ghertner
    • Stylism colors: James Coleman
    • Decorations: John Emerson, Michael Humphries, LISA Keene, Tia Kratter, Andrew Philipson, Philip Philipson, Brian Sebern and Donald Towns
  • Animation:
    • Supervision of animation: Hendel S. Butoy, Mark Henn, Glen Keane and Robert Minkoff
    • Animation of the characters: Ruben A. Aquino, David Block, Sandra Borgmeyer, Andreas Already, Rick Farmiloe, Mike Gabriel, ED Gombert, Steven E. Gordon, Ron Husband, Jay Jackson, Shawn Keller, Douglas Krohn, Joseph Lanzisero, Phil Nibbelink, Matthew O' Callaghan, David Pruiksma, Barry Temple, Cyndee Whitney, Phillip Young and Kathy Zielinski
    • special Effects: Mark Dindal, Ted Kierscey, Kelvin Yasuda, Patrizia Peraza and Dave Bossert
    • Coordinators: Tom Ferriter, Dave Suding, Walt Stanchfield, Chuck Williams and Bill Berg
    • Consultant: Eric Larson
  • Assembly: Roy Mr. Brewer Jr. and James Melton (film), Jack Wadsworth (music)
  • Music:
  • Associate producer: Burny Mattinson
  • Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II
  • Distribution: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • Format: Colors - 1,66:1 (1,75:1 wide) - Stereo Dolby
  • Lasted: 71 minutes
  • Comings out date: The United States: the July 2nd 1986; France: the November 26th 1986

Note: The list of the " crédités" with the credits being too long to be quoted in exenso here, we took again only principal the contributeurs.

Distribution

Original voices

  • Vincent Price: Professor Ratigan
  • Barrie Ingham : Basil off Baker Street/Bartholomew
  • Valley Bettin: Dr. David Q. Dawson/Thug Guard (henchman of Ratigan)
  • Susanne Pollatschek: Olivia Flaversham
  • Candy Candido : Fidget
  • Diana Chesney: Mrs. Judson
  • Eve Brenner: The Foams Queen (the Queen of the mice)
  • Alan Young: Hiram Flaversham
  • Laurie Hand: Dr. John Watson
  • Shani Wallis: Lady Foams
  • Ellen Fitzhugh: Bar Maid (Waitress)
  • Walker Edmiston: Citizen (Citizen) /Thug Guard (henchman of Ratigan)
  • Wayne Allwine: Thug Guard (henchman of Ratigan)
  • Tony Anselmo: Thug Guard (henchman of Ratigan)
  • Basil Rathbone: Sherlock Holmes
  • Frank Welker : Toby the Dog/Felica the Cat/Royal Guard Dogs (royal Watchdogs)

French voices

Songs of film

  • Great Genius of the evil - Ratigan and its assistants
  • Let spoil you to me - Singer of the tavern
  • Bye Bye already - Disc
  • Bye Bye already (Generic of end) - Singer

Rewards and nominations

  • 1987 - Nomination for the Best Motion Picture with the Edgar Allan Poe Awards
  • 1987 - Price of the Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature with the Motion Picture Sound Editors
  • 1987 - 2 let us nominaitons with the Young Artist Awards:
    • Exceptional Young Actresses in Animation Series, Specials gold Feature Film for Susanne Pollatschek
    • Feature Films: Animation

American boxoffice

  • 25.336.794 $ US in 1986
  • 13.288.756$ US in 1992
  • Sub-total of 38.600.000$ US

Exits cinema

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Did you know?

  • Wayne Allwine which lends its voice to one of the henchmen of Ratigan is the official voice of Mickey Mouse since 1978. Alan Young is that of the uncle Picsou (Uncle Scrooge McDuck) since 1977 and Tony Anselmo, that of Donald Duck since 1987.

  • Vincent Price will say of professor Ratigan: “It is the most beautiful role of malicious of all my career! ” .

  • Basil Rathbone had been the narrator of the film the Toad and the Schoolmaster in 1949. Although he died in 1967, he once more interprets here the character who returned it celebrates, Sherlock Holmes, through a sound extract of one of his films. It is in its honor that the hero of the fore-mentioned cartoon “Basil”.

  • the scene of the clock in the Tower of London is the first to combine an such important way traditional animation and synthesized images in a feature film of animation.

  • Basil, private detective is the first cartoon film of Disney where the malicious one dies, although it is in way " subjective" (one sees it only disappearing). A process that Disney will include in its following films: indeed, in the ten following feature films of animation, the malicious one survives only once… if one excludes the immortal statute of Hadès in Hercules (1997).

  • the lizard of the gang of Ratigan is the twin of Bill, the lizard chimney sweeper of Alice to the Country of the Wonders (1951).

  • One can notice a reference to the book of Sherlock Holmes The Final Problem : when Ratigan and Basil fall from the clock Big Ben when this one sounds 10 hours, and that Basil goes up using the propeller, the situation is similar to what occurs between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, when they fall into the falls from Reichenbach… only Sherlock Holmes succeeds in surviving.

  • the slogan of film was “Very new! Really AMUSING! ”. It is thought that Disney paid attention to underline the aspect “amusing” of film in order to move away it from the disastrous Taram and the magic Cauldron , which did not have success because of its dark atmosphere. The majority of the advertizing posters had luminous colors and the images represented were very light. What is really ironic, majority of being held film the night.

  • When Basil and Dawson explore the store of the merchant of toys, one can see an automat of Dumbo, making bubbles with its horn.

  • Madonna was to interpret the song Let Me Be Good To You but it was isolated with the profit of Melissa Manchester.

Titles in various languages

  • German: Basil, DER große Mäusedetektiv
  • English: The Great Foams Detective
  • Chinese: 妙妙探 (" Research merveilleuse")
  • Spanish: Basil, el ratón superdetective
  • Esperanto: Granda Detektivmuso
  • Finnish: Basil Hiiri - Mestarietsivä
  • French: Basil, Hebrew private detective
  • : בזילהבלשהגדול (Bazil habilsh hagdevel = " Basil large the détective")
  • Italian: Basil the investigatopo
  • Japanese: オリビアちゃんの大冒険 (Oribiachan No dai Bōken = " The Great adventure of Olivia the affectueuse")
  • Norwegian: Mesterdetektiven Basil Driven
  • Portuguese: The Great Foams Russian Detective
  • : Приключениязнаменитогомышонка-сыщика (Priklioutsiéniia znamiétoga mychonka sytchika = " The Adventure of famous the small mouse détective")
  • Swedish: Mästerdetektiven Basil Driven

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • '' Basil, private detective '' in Internet Movie Database
  • '' Basil, private detective '' in Ultimate Disney

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