Many (many :-\) years ago, when I was little, my little sister and I spent the weekend in Toronto at her father’s place. I recall that the first night we were there, he had a bunch of people over for a sort of party or whatever, so my sister and I stayed in the bedroom and watched an animated movie. For decades now, I’ve been trying to figure out what movie it was. Here’s a list of everything I can remember about it:
- We watched the movie on broadcast (OTA) TV in about 1984-1988, so it must be from before then.
- It was similar to (but not) The Hobbit, a fantasy movie with fantasy creatures.
- It was similar to (but not) The Dark Crystal, again, fantasy creatures.
- It’s not Black Cauldron.
- It was animated (definitely cartoony).
- It had an overall yellow pallet for its color-scheme.
- There was a scene in which two of main characters (very much like hobbits) were standing on the top of a cliff and watching an army of bad creatures (which in my mind are like Skeksis), marching through a mountainous pass and trying to figure out what to do or talking about warning someone.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does anybody have any idea what movie it was?
It might actually be The Hobbit (1977) after all. 🤔 I saw a YouTube video that included a clip of the “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way” song and it was indeed fairly yellowish in tone, there was an army of orcs marching through a valley, an overhead shot, and two hobbits were on guard nearby. It doesn’t match exactly; I swear they were watching the army from a clifftop, not snoozing behind some crags, and I don’t recall music. I’ve also seen The Hobbit later on, but it matches fairly well. I’ll ask my sister, but she was very young and might not remember it.