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Uploaded on Jun 7, 2010

Enjoy the original version of this lost animation classic, written and directed by three-time Academy Award winning animator Richard Williams (animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

Nearly 30 years in the making, a labor of love by a team of animation greats, this was to be the masterpiece of Williams' career, perhaps the most ambitious independent animated film ever conceived. Williams funded the film over the years with his millions of dollars of his own money, until after Roger Rabbit, Warner Brothers decided to fund the film. The Thief was the inspiration for Disney's film Aladdin, which proved to be its undoing. After over two decades of work, the film was taken away from Williams when he couldn't meet his deadline. It was eventually recut and destroyed, bought by Disney and destroyed further.

It has never been seen the way it was intended to be seen ... until now. Based on Williams' original workprint, missing scenes have been restored using storyboards and unfinished animation. Restored to its true form, this lost classic can finally be found.

Unofficial restoration by Garrett Gilchrist. (orangecow.org) This is not intended for profit, just a fanmade research project and tribute to this classic film.

Directed by Richard Williams
Screenplay by Richard Williams and Margaret French
Master animator Ken Harris
Produced by Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams

"Animation among the most glorious and lively ever created." - The New York Times

"It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the centre of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be ... nameless."

Also known (in horrifically butchered form) as Arabian Knight and The Princess and the Cobbler.

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  • OkamiKitsune94

    Dang, if a tac to Zigzag's foot was assault, would a shoe to his face be attempted murder?

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  • Myst Animatorx

    I love that ANIMATORS get credit at the start of this thing, not A-list actors providing mediocre voice "talent"

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  • csgptg

    Can't find some parts of this version of the recobbled cut like part 3 or 6

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  • TraumaticaTize

    I love how the animation is like a moving mural. c:

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  • moonrazk

    It's pretty enraging, specially because they always do that with the movies with the largest budgets, so instead of giving the jobs to professionals, they give it to actors that are already rich.

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  • PeanutButterZombie00

    I could not agree more.

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  • nationalist19

    The final performance by Vincent Price.

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  • moonrazk

    Ugh, don't get me started on how I hate these animations with famous actors doing the voice acting. Leave that to the professional VAs, dammit.

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  • RickT4172

    Right here: /watch?v=179Ce00fhC0

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  • csgptg

    Can't find part 3

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  • BlackMagnumFilms

    Well, let's not go that far... the voice actors here (Vincent Price especially) do a fine job.

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  • Marcus Zyker

    Monty pythonss Thief and the Cobbla

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