It was also the final film for several actors and artists, including animators Ken Harris (died 1982) Grim Natwick (died 1990) and Art Babbitt (died 1992), as well as actors Felix Aylmer (died 1979) Kenneth Williams (died 1988) Sir Anthony Quayle (died 1989) and Vincent Price (died 1993, a month after the film's initial release). With The Thief and the Cobbler being in and out of production from 1964 until 1995, a total of 31 years, it surpasses the 20-year Guinness record previously held by Tiefland (1954).
Williams himself acknowledged the film's rehabilitated reputation, thanks to projects like the popular fan edit, The Recobbled Cut, and Persistence of Vision, a 2012 documentary of the film's production. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences archived Richard Williams' own 35mm workprint. Disney, have discussed restoring the film to its original version. Over the years, various people and companies, including The Walt Disney Company's Roy E. Both versions of the film performed poorly and received mixed reviews. Two years later, Disney subsidiary Miramax Films released another re-edit entitled Arabian Knight. When production went over budget and fell behind schedule, the film was heavily cut and re-edited by producer Fred Calvert without Williams' involvement it was eventually released in 1993 by Allied Filmmakers under the title The Princess and the Cobbler.
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It was finally placed into full production in 1989 when Warner Bros. Originally conceived in the 1960s, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades due to independent funding and ambitiously complex animation. The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film directed by Canadian-British animator Richard Williams.
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