A feature length script for the movie can be found on the internet. It is actually not the script written for the film, but a new version created by Hamann years later and fleshed out from the existing footage on the internet. The actual script is only 40 pages long and a lot of the film was improvised by the actors. Tarantino has said the feature script online isn't his movie and he wishes his name wasn't on it. Hamann has said it follows the blueprint him and Tarantino established.
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Madeline Kahn (the voice of Gussie Mausheimer) and Christopher Plummer (the voice of Henri the pigeon) would go on to voice characters in Pixar films. Kahn voiced Gypsy the gypsy moth in A Bug's Life (1998) and Plummer voiced Charles Muntz, the villain in Up (2009). Also, Cathy Cavadini (the voice of Tanya in the sequel, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)) did additional voices in Finding Dory (2016) and Cars 3 (2017) (the former of which is directed by Andrew Stanton who also co-directed A Bug's Life (1998)) Also, John Cleese (the voice of Cat R. Waul) in Fievel Goes West) starred with Kahn's A Bug's Life female co-star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Planes (2013).
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Jerry Goldsmith, who had previously worked with Don Bluth on The Secret of NIMH (1982), was initially considered to compose the score, but withdrew due to previous commitments. In Goldsmith's place was James Horner, whom Bluth was already familiar with, as said composer's agent attempted to pressure Bluth into hiring Horner for "NIMH" despite being contractually obligated to use Goldsmith's score.
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Tom Bähler was originally approached to write the film's songs, before the decision was made to hire Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
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Don Bluth: [emigrating protagonist] The Mousekewitz family is forced to move to America from Russia.
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John P. Finnegan won the role of Warren T. Rat by reciting excerpts of Hamlet in the voice of a Brooklyn taxi driver. This idea inspired the writers to make Warren a pretentious illiterate who continually misquoted Shakespeare.
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Fievel was the name of Steven Spielberg's grandfather.
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When Gussie is making her speech at the rally, she stands on a can of "Dorse Hair Restorer", named for crew member Dorse A. Lanpher.
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Erica Yohn's work as a Russian gypsy on a TV show attracted the attention of Don Bluth and John Pomeroy.
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Don Bluth: [children] Fievel is separated from his parents throughout most of the film and there are also several orphans in New York.
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Part of Dom DeLuise's characterization of "Tiger" is clearly inspired by Bert Lahr's as "The Cowardly Lion" in THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
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The German voice of Digit is Wolfgang Ziffer. Fittingly, 'Ziffer' means 'digit' in German.
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Final film of Johnny Guarnieri.
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Phillip Glasser was discovered by accident when Don Bluth and his crew overheard him auditioning for an Oscar Mayer commercial.
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The roars of the cats during the Cossacks raid are the same as those made by the farm cat, Dragon, in The Secret of NIMH (1982) which was also directed by Don Bluth
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In the third verse of "No Cats in America," an Irish mouse sings that a cat killed his true love and left nothing but her tail behind. Ironically, this mouse has no tail of his own.
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When Fievel first arrives in New York Henri the French pigeon tells him 'his statue' of Lady of Liberty is being built. Iconically the statue was a gift to America from France which explains why Heni said the tower was 'his'.
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The dvd and bluray jacket front cover shows Fievel's sister Tanya as she appears in the sequel.
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Henri was originally to be voiced by Sid Caesar, and was conceived as scraggly and worn, but later Christopher Plummer was cast for the part and Henri was drawn with a more dignified look. Don Bluth felt Henri was an essential character to act as a voice for the statue "welcoming" Fievel to the new world.
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Steven Spielberg had some material cut that he felt was too much scary and intense for children, including a scene Don Bluth was developing revolving around the nightmarish wave monsters while the family was at sea.
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
An American Tail - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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