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This is such stuff as dreams are made of. This is Legend. morePlot:
A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Plot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 9 nominations moreUser Comments:
Watch both versions and make your OWN cut moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Cruise | ... | Jack |
 | Mia Sara | ... | Princess Lily |
 | Tim Curry | ... | The Lord of Darkness |
 | David Bennent | ... | Honeythorn Gump |
| Alice Playten | ... | Blix |
 | Billy Barty | ... | Screwball |
| Cork Hubbert | ... | Brown Tom |
| Peter O'Farrell | ... | Pox |
 | Kiran Shah | ... | Blunder |
| Annabelle Lanyon | ... | Oona |
 | Robert Picardo | ... | Meg Mucklebones |
| Tina Martin | ... | Nell |
| Ian Longmur | ... | Demon Cook |
| Mike Crane | ... | Demon Cook |
| Liz Gilbert | ... | Dancing Black Dress |
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Legend of Darkness (UK) (working title)Legend: Ultimate Edition (USA) (reissue title (video title))
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
94 min | USA:114 min (director's cut) | USA:89 minColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Brazil:Livre | Iceland:12 | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Ireland:G | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Netherlands:ALMOVIEmeter: 
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When it came time to assemble the full director's cut, the original session masters for the Jerry Goldsmith score could not be located. However, Mike Ross-Trevor of Hit Factory Studios in London had kept a two-track digital copy, mixed down from eight-track session masters, which he knew "would be worth preserving." Most of these tapes contained complete takes, which had to be re-edited from scratch to match the cues in the recut print. moreGoofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Jack is wearing a cloak you can see a safety pin several times when the wind blows it. moreSoundtrack:
My True Love's Kiss moreFAQ
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As a huge fan of Tangerine Dream and Jon Anderson, I praise the fact that their music is in the "American" cut of this film; their music has always sounded like they were trying to do soundtracks to a movie. You hear a song, you get visual images in your head and make a movie of your own.
However, ...
I do have to say that the American Version with Tangerine Dream's soundtrack only makes this movie into a "Cult" film. It could have been great, but (well, you fill in the blank).
Fortunately, I've seen the way it was SUPPOSED to have been released in the States (which you can find on the 2-disc DVD, which has both versions).
The Non-American version has a story which is much fuller, and the music (with a full symphony orchestra) is much better and adds more drama and punctuates the mood of each scene more properly.
I do find the American version's end much more climatic musically and story-wise with Jon Anderson (singer of Yes)'s angelic voice thundering with Tangerine Dream's score in the background.
So, pick an afternoon when you got about 4 hours to spare and watch BOTH. Then, take parts of each version and make YOUR OWN wonderous story.
And another thing, keep in mind that this movie came out a whole 20 years ago. The early 80's. Next year it can buy it's own beer (if it was a person). So, Tim Curry and a lot of others would have been just voices over CGI characters instead of being in actual makeup and there would have been MORE to the story and script if CGI was as available back then as it is now.
There IS such a thing as knowing limitations, you know.
American Version, good enough to make one wonder what was more.
International Version, done much better and fuller (though I like the American ending better)
As I said, watch both versions and make your OWN version to enjoy.
Aaaaannnd ... CUT!
That's a wrap.