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Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Rainbow Brite lights up the screen in her first big movie.

19855.61h 25mG

Overview

Rainbow Brite, and her magical horse Starlite, must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra. When they meet Orin, the wise Sprite tries to make the two children get along and work together to stop the evil Princess. Orin tells them that they can only destroy her by combining their own powers against her. Getting in the way of their mission is the sinister Murky Dismal and his bumbling assistant Lurky who, as usual, are lavishing in the new gloom created by the darkening of Spectra, as well as trying to steal Rainbow's magical color belt.

Directed by Bernard Deyriès
Written by Jean Chalopin, Howard R. Cohen
Produced by Tetsuo Katayama
Box Office0Revenue: $4.9M

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Top Cast

Bettina Bush

Bettina Bush

Rainbow Brite (voice) (as Bettina)

Pat Fraley

Pat Fraley

Lurky / On-X / Buddy Blue / Dog / Guard / Spectran / Slurthie / Glitterbot (voice) (as Patrick Fraley)

Peter Cullen

Peter Cullen

Murky Dismal / Castle Monster / Glitterbot / Guard / Skydancer / Slurthie (voice)

Robbie Lee

Robbie Lee

Twink / Shy Violet / Indigo / La La Orange / Spectran / Sprites (voice)

Andre Stojka

Andre Stojka

Starlite / Wizard / Spectran (voice)

David Mendenhall

David Mendenhall

Krys (voice)

Rhonda Aldrich

Rhonda Aldrich

The Princess / The Creature (voice)

Les Tremayne

Les Tremayne

Orin / Bombo / TV announcer (voice)

Mona Marshall

Mona Marshall

Red Butler / Witch / Spectran / Castle Creature / Patty O'Green / Canary Yellow (voice)

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris

Count Blogg (voice)

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Themes & Keywords

magiccartoongreeting cardwestern animation

About Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is a animation, family, science fiction, fantasy, adventure film released in 1985 exploring themes of magic, cartoon, greeting card, western animation. Directed by Bernard Deyriès, it stars Bettina Bush, Pat Fraley, Peter Cullen. Rainbow Brite, and her magical horse Starlite, must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra. When they meet Orin, the wise Sprite tries to make the two children get along and work together to stop the evil Princess. Orin tells them that they can only destroy her by combining their own powers against her. Getting in the way of their mission is the sinister Murky Dismal and his bumbling assistant Lurky who, as usual, are lavishing in the new gloom created by the darkening of Spectra, as well as trying to steal Rainbow's magical color belt.

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