The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

92 mins | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | Nov. 19, 1982

From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

The Last Unicorn

92 mins | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | Nov. 19, 1982

The Last Unicorn
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Rankin/Bass Productions, ITC
Original title The Last Unicorn
Directors Tsuguyuki Kubo, Katsuhisa Yamada, Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
Writers Don Duga, Peter S. Beagle

Cast

Mia Farrow

as Unicorn / Amalthea (voice)

Alan Arkin

as Schmendrick (voice)

Tammy Grimes

as Molly Grue (voice)

Jeff Bridges

as Prince Lir (voice)

Christopher Lee

as King Haggard (voice)

Angela Lansbury

as Mommy Fortuna (voice)

Robert Klein

as The Butterfly (voice)

Keenan Wynn

as Captain Cully / Harpy (voice)

Paul Frees

as Mabruk (voice)

René Auberjonois

as The Skull (voice)

Theodore Gottlieb

as Ruhk (voice)

Don Messick

as The Cat (voice)

Jack Lester

as Hunter #1 / Old Farmer / Cully's Men (voice)

Nellie Bellflower

as The Tree (voice)

Ed Peck

as Jack Jingley / Cully's Men (voice)

Ken Jennings

as Hunter #2 / Cully's Men

Gerry Beckley

as The Balladeer (voice) (uncredited)

Dewey Bunnell

as The 2nd Balladeer (voice) (uncredited)

Brad Palmer

as The Balladeers' Bassist / Chorus (voice) (uncredited)