The Little Troll Prince
| The Little Troll Prince | |
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| Genre |
Animation Adventure Drama |
| Written by |
Clifford Campion Shirley Hartman |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson |
| Voices of |
Danny Cooksey Vincent Price Jonathan Winters Cloris Leachman Don Knotts Michael Bell Laurie Faso William Christopher Ami Foster B.J. Ward Angella Kaye Neil Ross Christina Lange |
| Composer(s) | Al Allen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ardon Albrecht |
| Producer(s) | Berny Wolf |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor |
Taft Broadcasting (original) Worldvision Enterprises (former) Warner Bros. Television (current) |
| Release | |
| Original release | 1987 |
The Little Troll Prince (onscreen title: The Little Troll Prince: A Christmas Parable) is a 1987 animated Christmas television special produced by Hanna-Barbera. Backed by the International Lutheran Laymen's League, it has strong Christian themes of unconditional love, self-sacrifice, and redemption, with a substantial Protestant influence. The story was a written parable script for the Christmas special with a lesson about the feeling of joy and love in one's heart, that can lead one from a cruel world to a light-hearted world.
In a Norwegian mountain village, children play under the shadow of a sinister mountain of the trolls. In one small cottage, a gnome named Bu (voiced by Danny Cooksey) is happily decorating his own home with Christmas decorations, aided by mice and birds. He explains to the viewers that the Christmas season doesn't really start for him until the arrival of the Christmas tree, at which point two girls and their father return to the cottage dragging a tree on a sleigh. When the humans set the tree up in their home below, the uppermost branches are pushed through a hole in the attic to form a miniature tree for the gnome. He quickly decorates the tree, topping it with a minuscule Bible.
Bu explains that while humans and gnomes love Christmas, trolls do not. He explains that trolls live high in the mountains because they fear our world — to them, all that is good is bad, all that is right is wrong and that Christmas is scarier than Halloween. They have no word for "love", and do not believe in God. He adds that he knows all this because the previous year he not only lived among the trolls, but was their crown prince. The film turns to the previous December. Bu narrates how his father, the two-headed King Ulvik (voiced by Vincent Price and Jonathan Winters), could grow so angry that storms would sweep across Norway.
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