Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done

Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Cover of VHS release
Directed by	Bill Melendez
Written by	Robin Miller Leo Rost Additional material: Gene Thompson Victor Spinetti
Story by	Robin Miller Leo Rost
Based on	The works of Gilbert and Sullivan
Produced by	Steven C. Melendez
Starring	Victor Spinetti Peter Reeves Miriam Karlin Barry Cryer Long John Baldry
Edited by	Roger Donley Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez Babette Monteil
Music by	Score: Jimmy Horowytz Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert Additional lyrics: Robin Miller
Production company	Bill Melendez Productions
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation
Release dates	1975 (1975) (United Kingdom) July 1976 (1976-07) (United States)
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated musical comedy film directed by Bill Melendez and designed by Ronald Searle,^[1][2] based on the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.^[3]

The comically convoluted plot, by Robin Miller and Leo Rost, with additional material by Gene Thompson and Victor Spinetti, is a pastiche of many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, particularly Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe and The Mikado, in which the protagonist, Able Seaman Dick Deadeye (voiced by Spinetti), is sent by Queen Victoria on a quest to recover the "Ultimate Secret" from the Sorcerer, who has stolen it. The music is borrowed from many Savoy operas, with new or modified lyrics by Robin Miller and orchestrations updated in a contemporary popular style by conductor Jimmy Horowytz.