Basil, the great mouse detective
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Basil, the great mouse detective |
| Original title | The Great Mouse Detective |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
John Musker Ron Clements Burny Mattinson David Michener |
| script | Ron Clements |
| production | Burny Mattinson |
| music |
Henry Mancini Melissa Manchester |
| camera | Ed Austin |
| cut |
Roy M. Brewer Jr. James Melton |
Basil, the great mouse detective (original title: The Great Mouse Detective ) is the 26th full-length animated film from Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1986. It is based on the children's book series Basil the mouse detective (English: Basil of Baker Street ) by Eve Titus , which moves the plot of the novels about the master detective Sherlock Holmes into the world of rodents .
action
London , in 1897 not only a metropolis of people, but also of mice : the toy maker jumping jack is kidnapped by a bat called the Gripper. His daughter Olivia, along with the doctor and war veteran Dr. Wasdenn went to 221b Baker Street , where Basil, the great mouse detective, lives. At first he is more than disinterested, until he recognizes Greifer, the assistant to his archenemy, the ingenious criminal Professor Rattenzahn, in the description of the kidnapper.
Rattenzahn is meanwhile at the harbor in his secret headquarters. There he holds the toy maker prisoner and wants to use a robot copy made by jumping jacks to try to overthrow the mouse queen of Great Britain and become king herself. Basil tries to prevent this and can actually turn off the robot. He and Rattenzahn fight each other in the clockwork of the London landmark Big Ben , in which they both plunge into the depths. However, Basil manages to save himself with an aircraft made by Greifer.
The queen honors the heroes for their deeds. Olivia is reunited with her father, and Basil and Dr. Wasdenn decided to work together from now on.
synchronization
The German synchronization of the film commissioned the Berliner Synchron AG in Berlin. Hans-Bernd Ebinger wrote the dialogue book and Friedrich Schoenfelder directed the dialogue. The musical direction and the lyrics to the songs were taken over by Rolf Bauer .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
| Basil | Barrie Ingham | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Dr. What | Val Bettin | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Prof. Rattenzahn | Vincent Price | Edgar Ott |
| Olivia jumping jack | Susanne Pollatschek | Antje Primel |
| Xaver Jumping Jack | Alan Young | Franz-Otto Kruger |
| Gripper | Candy candido | Helmut Krauss |
| Queen Mousoria | Éve Brenner | Sigrid Lagemann |
| Mrs. Minna | Diana Chesney | Hannelore student |
| Sherlock Holmes | Basil Rathbone | Hans Nitschke |
backgrounds
- For the original English voice of Professor Rattenzahn, the former horror star Vincent Price was hired, who also got the opportunity to sing. The pop singer Melissa Manchester contributed a song written and interpreted by herself to the soundtrack . Alan Young won over the Disney studios so much with his Scottish accent as Hiram Flaversham that they offered him the part of Dagobert Duck ( $ crooge McDuck ) in the television series DuckTales - Neues aus Duckburg , which also required a Scottish accent. The original version also pays homage to the most famous Holmes actor in film history: In the scene in which the shadow of Sherlock Holmes is thrown on the wall, the voice of Basil Rathbone from old recordings can be heard in the original he died in 1967.
- In the scene in which Basil fights against Rat Tooth in the clockwork of the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster, Disney used computer animation for the second time after Taran and the Cauldron to give the scene more depth. The continued use of computers in the processing of images and sound shortened the time it took to make the film to just under a year.
- One of the movie's running gags is Basil's inability to pronounce Olivia's last name correctly. He only got it right once when he was talking to her father.
- The film grossed around $ 38.6 million at the box office in the US alone when it premiered in 1986 and re-released in 1992, and the budget was around $ 14 million.
- Basil lives in the mousehole of an apartment where a man occasionally stands and plays the violin. There is a cutscene in the film in which Dr. Wasdenn, Basil and Olivia are almost discovered by two men in their search for Toby: a tall, skinny and a slightly corpulent one with a bowler.
- Professor Rattenzahn is based on Professor James Moriarty , who was the greatest adversary of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes uses the code name Captain Basil in some novels .
controversy
Frequently that the finale of the film, the fight in the movement, which appeared from 1979 is thought Lupine III - Anime The Castle of Cagliostro was adopted in which an almost identical scene occurs. The question was never resolved, and in contrast to many other similar cases, there was no legal dispute. The Disney artist himself claimed that the scene was rather remuneration for 1937 appeared Clock Cleaners ( Clock Cleaners ) in which Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and Goofy to clean while attempting a big movement, cause utter chaos. In fact, Clock Cleaners was part of the program for the first performance of Basil, the great mouse detective . In addition, there have been action sequences in and on the clock tower in earlier films, for example in the classic Will Hay comedy My Learned Friend from 1943.
Reviews
“A refreshingly straightforward, humorous and imaginatively drawn detective story. Detailed and exciting entertainment. "
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable .
publication
- 1992: Basil, the great mouse detective . Walt Disney Home Video.
- 2003: Basil, the great mouse detective . Special Collection. Buena Vista Home Entertainment. (New edition)
- 2003: Basil, the great mouse detective . Special Collection. Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
- 2010: Basil, the great mouse detective . Special Collection. Special edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. (New edition)
- 2017: Disney Classics 25: Basil, the great mouse detective . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
- Soundtrack
- Henry Mancini , Larry Grossman , Ellen Fitzhugh , Melissa Manchester : The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective . Original motion picture soundtrack. Varèse Sarabande / Colosseum 1992, VSD-5359
literature
- Eve Titus : Basil the mouse detective. The missing twins. (OT: Basil of Baker Street ). Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1987, ISBN 3-473-34264-5 .
- Eve Titus: Basil, the mouse detective. The secret in the mountains. (OT: Basil and the Lost Colony ). Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1988, ISBN 3-473-34265-3 .
- Eve Titus: Basil, the mouse detective. Basil and the Pygmy Cats (OT: Basil and the Pygmy Cats ). Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1988, ISBN 3-473-34266-1 .
- Walt Disney , et al .: Basil, the great mouse detective. (OT: The Great Mouse Detective ). The most beautiful Disney stories Volume 16. Ehapa, Stuttgart 1986.
- Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 p. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .
- Lucy Chase Williams: The Complete Films of Vincent Price. Citadel Press (Carol Communications), New York and Secaucus 1995, ISBN 0-8065-1600-3 .
Web links
- The Great Mouse Detective in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Basil, the great mouse detective. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0091149/business
- ↑ Read, among other things, in The Black Peter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
