The Frog Prince, aka Cannon Movie Tales

Cannon Movie Tales

Cannon Movie Tales is the collective name for a series of films created in the late 1980s by Cannon Group producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, associate producer Patricia Ruben, and executive producer Itzik Kol. Filmed principally on location in Israel, these stories are generally fairy tales...

: The Frog Prince, Der Froschkönig (West Germany), is a 1986 musical film, based on the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...

's classic fairytale

The Frog Prince (story)

"The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" is a fairy tale, best known through the Brothers Grimm's written version; traditionally it is the first story in their collection. In the tale, a spoiled princess reluctantly befriends a frog , who magically transforms into a handsome prince...

. It is rated "G" and was filmed in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tagline was "Cannon Movie Tales: Lavish, Feature length new versions of the world's best loved storybook classics."

Cast

• Aileen Quinn
  Aileen Quinn
  Aileen Marie Quinn is an American actress. She is best-known for having played the title role in the film Annie .-Biography:...
  
   - Princess Zora
• Helen Hunt
  Helen Hunt
  Helen Elizabeth Hunt is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets...
  
   - Princess Henrietta
• John Paragon - Ribbit / Prince Of Freedly
• Clive Revill
  Clive Revill
  Clive Selsby Revill is a New Zealand-born British character actor best known for his performances in musical theatre and on the London stage.-Early life and stage career:...
  
   - King William
• Seagull Cohen - Dulcey
• Eli Gorenstein - Cook
• Shmuel Atzmon - Baron Von Whobble
• Jeff Gerner - Emissary
• Aaron Kaplan - Page
• Moshe Ish-Kassit - Sleeping Guard

Songs

• "Theme Song"

Written by Kenn Long

• "Lucky Day"

Written by Kenn Long

Performed by Aileen Quinn

• "A Promise Is A Promise"

Written by Kenn Long

Performed by Clive Revill & Aileen Quinn

• "Too Tall Frog"

Written by Kenn Long

Performed by Nick Curtis

• "Music Box Waltz"

Written by Kenn Long

• "Friendship"

Written by Kenn Long

Performed by Aileen Quinn & Nick Curtis

• "Have You Forgotten Me?"

Written by Kenn Long

Performed by Aileen Quinn

Critical response

Yahoo Movies gave the film a B+ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800187603/info. AMG

AMG

- Automobiles :* AB Motorfabriken i Göteborg, a former Swedish automobile manufacturer* AM General, a manufacturer of speciality and military vehicles* AMG , a Swedish automobile manufactured between 1903 and 1905...

gave the film a 2-star rating.