The Great Mouse Detective [1986] (1 disc)

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• As Basil was based on Sherlock Holmes, Rattigan was based on Holmes' arch-nemesis Moriarty, and, like Moriarty, Rattigan fell to his death with Basil (Holmes) while Basil escaped death.
• The lines spoken by Sherlock Holmes (voiced by Basil Rathbone) are from the story The Adventure of the Red-Headed League. According to the text of the story, this would mean that the film takes place sometime in the autumn of 1890.
• Vincent Price realized a life-long dream with this film. He had always wanted to be the voice of a character in a Disney film.
• John Cleese was the original choice for the role of Basil.
• The lizard in Rattigan's gang made an earlier appearance as Bill, the "lizard with a ladder" in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
• Ratigan was originally designed to look thin and weak, but when Vincent Price was chosen to play the role, his appearance was changed accordingly.
• Professor Ratigan was Vincent Price's favorite role.
• During the recording of Vincent Price's lines, animators sketched his exaggerated Shakespearean gestures and worked them into the animated poses for Ratigan.
• Production took only one year to complete thanks to the use of computers.
• When designing Fidget, the Disney animators were focused on creating a scary, yet comical and lovable character. They were looking for a raspy voice and chose Candy Candido, who had starred in voice-over roles in many previous Disney films as well as ^[?] Ralph Bakshi films. His own looks were used in matching Fidget's looks. Candido's deep, throaty voice was sped up to avoid Fidget's voice from becoming too low. (Candido's original voice can be heard as the mouse shouting "Get off, you eight-legged bum!" at the juggling octopus in the pub.)