''The Gnomes' Great Adventure'' (''La gran aventura de los gnomos'') is a Spanish

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. It was produced by BRB Internacional by re-editing together four episodes of its television series '' The World of David the Gnome''. The film follows the life and adventures of the gnomes as they struggle to outwit enemy trolls. Two English-language dubs of the film exist, one produced by

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in 1987 with the original series' English dub cast and a few celebrity voices, and another produced in 1995 in the United Kingdom.

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is credited as the director of the first English dub, first released in 1988. Despite the film's obscurity, some well known actors contributed to it, including

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, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, and

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. The British English soundtrack to the film was rerecorded in 1995 by the London-based company Village Productions, Ltd. with an entirely different voice cast.

Cast

Additional voices

* Spanish: Manuel Peiró (Pot), Teófilo Martínez (Narrator) * 1987 American dub: Marc Denis (Pot),

(Narrator, Old Man), Bob Elliott (Fred), Ray Goulding (Ed),

(Carlo, Omar, Prince), Tony Randall (Gnome King, Ghost of the Black Lake), Richard Dumont (King) * 1995 British dub: Gavin Muir (Old Man, King), Juliet Prague (Tom), Regina Reagan (Susan, Twinkle), John Vernon (Omar, Master Ghost)

Crew

1987 American English dub

* Directed by

* Produced by

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* Screenplay by Shelly Altman and Mike Zettler * Edited by Ed Glass * Executive producer: Claudio Biern Boyd * Executives in charge of production: Micheline Charest and Ronald A. Weinberg * Associate producer: Maria Aragon * Music composed and performed by Bob Jewett and Jack Maeby

1995 British English dub

* Music and song by Bill Nabb and Terry Wilson * Production assistant: Olga Pla * Production coordinator: Cristina Nicolau * Post-production: Claudio Biern Lliviria and Ray Hampson * Production supervisor: Olivia Borricon * Associate producer: Jose Manuel Iglesias * Created for television by Claudio Biern Boyd

References

External links

* 1987 films 1987 animated films Films directed by Harvey Weinstein Spanish animated feature films {{1980s-animation-film-stub