
The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 American animated mystery-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures. The 26th feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film was directed by Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and the team of John Musker and Ron Clements, who later directed Disney's hit films The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. The film was also known as The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective for its 1992 theatrical re-release and Basil the Great Mouse Detective in some countries. The main characters are all mice and rats living in Victorian London.
Based on the children's book series Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film (and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death). Sherlock Holmes also mentions "Basil" as one of his aliases in the Arthur Conan Doyle story "The Adventure of Black Peter".
After the box office under-performance of Disney's previous animated feature film The Black Cauldron, this simpler film proved to be a success upon its initial release in 1986. As such, the new senior management of the company were convinced that their animation department was still a viable enterprise and this set the stage for the Disney Renaissance.
Cast[]
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Basil of Baker Street | Barrie Ingham | Raúl de la Fuente | Takeshi Aono | Newton da Matta | Harry Wüstenhagen | Roger Carel | Paolo Buglioni | Andrzej Mastalerz | Paul van Gorcum | Frej Lindqvist | Knut Risan | Jess Ingerslev | Zano Danias | Sergio Zamora | Carlos Freixo | Jang Seung-Gil | Gadi Levy | AliEkber Diribaş | ||||
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Dr. David Q. Dawson | Val Bettin | Esteban Siller | Ichirô Nagai | Magalhães Graça | Friedrich Schoenfelder | Philippe Dumat | Gigi Angelillo | Stanisław Brudny | Hugo Koolschijn | Anders Nyström | Henki Kolstad | Poul Bundgaard | Kóstas Bakális | Domenech Farell | João Didelet | Lee Jeong-Gu | Ohad Shachar | Erhan Abir | ||||
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Olivia Flaversham | Susanne Pollatschek | Vanessa Garcel | Nariko Fujieda | Adriana Torres | Antje Primel | Barbara Tissier | Federica DeBortoli | Zofia Jaworowska | Marlijn Pel | CeciliaOlin Schiöld | Anine Kruse | Kristine NørgaardSørensen | Násia Matámi | Berta Cortés | Joana Dinis | Yu Hyeon-Ji | Meriç Balkan | |||||
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Hiram Flaversham | Alan Young | Luis Bayardo | Ichirō Murakoshi | Dário Lourenço | Franz-Otto Krüger | Serge Lhorca | Mario Bardella | Włodzimierz Press | Paul Haenen | Nils Eklund | Frank Robert | Henning Palner | Antónis Antoníou | Valeriy Kukhareshin | Jaume Comas | Fernando Luis | Seol YoungBeom | Yoav Bar-Lev | Ferdi Atuner | |||
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Professor Ratigan | Vincent Price | Narciso Busquets | Akira Takarada | André Filho | Edgar Ott | Gérard Rinaldi | Glauco Onorato | Andrzej Blumenfeld | Guido de Moor | Hans Josefsson | Helge Jordal | Peter Schrøder | Michális Katsoúlis | Jordi Royo | Vítor Norte | Kim Hwan-jin | Assaf Dgani | Zeynel Gürel | ||||
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Fidget | Candy Candido | Arturo Mercado | Chikao Ôtsuka | Sílvio Navas | Helmut Krauss | Jacques Deschamps | Marco Bresciani | Anders Hatlo | Claus Ryskjær | Mark Ullod | António Montez | Simcha Barbiro | ||||||||||
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Mrs. Judson | Diana Chesney | Ángela Villanueva | Hisako Kyōda | Elza Martins | Hannelore Schüler | Arlette Thomas | Paola Giannetti | Teresa Lipowska | Karin Miller | AnneMarit Jacobsen | Lillian Tillegreen | Vílma Tsakíri | Marta Martorell | Cláudia Cadima | Lim Su-Ah | Yael Amit | ||||||
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Mouse Queen | Eve Brenner | Nancy MacKenzie | Selma Lopes | Sigrid Lagemann | María Luisa Solá | Paula Fonseca | Yael Amit | |||||||||||||||
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Bar Maid | Ellen Fitzhugh | Sylvia Garcel | Estelita Bell | Margot Rothweiler | Mercè Segarra | Luísa Salgueiro | Hadar Shahaf | |||||||||||||||
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Miss Kitty Mouse | Melissa Manchester | Lucinha Lins | Idália Moniz | |||||||||||||||||||
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Felica the Cat | Frank Welker | Frank Welker | Frank Welker | |||||||||||||||||||
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Toby the Dog | Frank Welker | Frank Welker | Frank Welker | |||||||||||||||||||
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Bartholomew | Barrie Ingham | Francisco Colmenero | Rodney Gomes | Mieczysław Morański | Amadeu Aguado | JoséJorge Duarte | ||||||||||||||||
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Sherlock Holmes | Barrie Ingham | Raúl de la Fuente | Jacques Deschamps | Alex Meseguer | Yoav Bar-Lev | |||||||||||||||||
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Watson | Laurie Main | Federico Romano | André Luiz Chapéu | Michel Mella | Poul Bundgaard | Ramon Canals | Ohad Shachar | |||||||||||||||
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Lady Mouse | Shani Wallis | Diana Santos | Mônica Rossi | Mercè Segarra | Júlia Barros | |||||||||||||||||
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Thug 1 | Wayne Allwine | Eduardo Tejedo | Mário Monjardim | Serge Lhorca | Trond Brænne | |||||||||||||||||
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Thug 2 | Walker Edmiston | Francisco Colmenero | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug 3 | Tony Anselmo | Raúl Aldana | Michel Mella | Jarosław Boberek | ||||||||||||||||||
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Thug 4 | Val Bettin | Ricardo Silva | André Luiz Chapéu | |||||||||||||||||||
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Bar Guy | Francisco Colmenero | Jarosław Boberek | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Royal Guard | Raúl Aldana | Ivar Nørve | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Citizen 1 | Charles Fleischer | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Citizen 2 | Walker Edmiston | Francisco Colmenero |
Songs[]
Image | Character | USA | Mex | Jap | Bra | Ger | Fra | Ita | Pol | Neth | Swe | Nor | Den | Gree | Ukr | Alb | Ser | Russ | Spa(Catalan) | Por | Kor | Isr | Turk |
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Professor Ratigan | Vincent Price | Narciso Busquets | Akira Takarada | André Filho | Edgar Ott | Gérard Rinaldi | Glauco Onorato | Andrzej Blumenfeld | Guido deMoor | Hans Josefsson | Helge Jordal | Peter Schrøder | Michális Katsoúlis | Jordi Royo | Vítor Norte | Kim Sungki | Assaf Dgani | Suat Arıkan |