Expatriate animators from Disney Studios and some famous voices combine to reveal THE SECRET OF NIMH
The star of this show may very well be the animation, right. Several years ago, Don Bluth and a disaffected group of young animators broke off from Disney Studios and began work on NIMH--an animated feature in the classic Disney style. The story concerns a widowed mouse called Mrs. Brisby, who calls on some tough, smart rats to help save her family. It seems that these rats have created an underground civilization, complete with electric lights, and it's from this refuge that they battle exterminators sent in by the government. Elizabeth Hartman (Walking Tall) lends her voice to Mrs. Brisby, Dom DeLuise is the lovelorn Jeremy the Crow, Derek Jacobi is Nicodemus, the leader of the rats, and John Carradine is the Great Owl, a philosopher-advisor who has presumably sworn off eating mice for the duration of the film. BAsed on the New bery Award-winning book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert O'Brien, the animated feature employed 120 artists for more than two years to create a million and a half drawings. Jerry Goldsmith, an Academy Award winner for the music in The Omen, wrote the score.