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Release year: 1987

Storyline

In Europe several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are released as part of the celebration of the upcoming wedding of the Emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country

Top credits

Directors

David Irving

Writers

Cast

Sid Caesar — The Emperor
Robert Morse — Henry
Jason Carter — Nicholas
Lysette Anthony — Princess Gilda

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Did you know

• Part of the "Cannon Movie Tales" series, nine feature films based on classic fairy tales that were produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus for the Cannon Group in the mid 1980s. All of the films featured well-known actors from the U.S. and U.K. and were shot on-location in Israel. Although the series was originally conceived to have sixteen films, production stopped at nine when Rumpelstiltskin (1987) flopped at the box office, and the remaining films were sent directly to video. Despite their commercial failure, the Movie Tales garnered a cult following after the Disney Channel began airing them as "Storybook Cinema" in 1988. The nine films in the series are: The Frog Prince (1986), Sleeping Beauty (1987), The Emperor's New Clothes (1987), Rumpelstiltskin (1987), Snow White (1987), Beauty and the Beast (1987), Hansel and Gretel (1987), Puss in Boots (1988), and Red Riding Hood (1987).

• Both Sid Caesar and Robert Morse would appear in TV Movie adaptions of the Munsters. Caesar as Dr. Dustin Diablo in The Munsters' Revenge and Morse as Grampa in Here Come The Munsters.

• Clive Revill played The Prime Minister in the film and in the Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation as well.