Der Hobbit (TV Movie 1977)
42KDer Hobbit: Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.. With Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston. A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon.
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