{{Short description|1996 film by Sean McNamara}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Galgameth | image = DVD cover of the movie The Adventures of Galgameth.jpg | caption = DVD cover | director = [[Sean McNamara]] | writer = [[Michael Angeli]] | producer = Martha Chang | based_on = {{based on|''[[Pulgasari]]'' |[[Shin Sang-ok]]}} (uncredited) | starring = {{ubl|Devin Oatway|Sean McNamara|[[Stephen Macht]]|[[Lou Wagner]]|James Nixon}} | music = [[Richard Marvin (composer)|Richard Marvin]] | cinematography = [[Christian Sebaldt]] | editing = {{ubl|Annamária Szántó|Joe Woo Jr.}} | studio = Sheen Communications | distributor = Galaxy International Releasing<br>[[Trimark Pictures|Kidmark]] | released = {{Film date|1996|11|18|Spain}} | runtime = 110 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $10 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1995/scene/markets-festivals/romanian-counts-prod-n-bounty-99129646/|title = Romanian counts prod'n bounty|date = 14 August 1995}}</ref> | gross = }} '''''Galgameth''''' (also released under the titles '''''The Legend of Galgameth''''' and '''''The Adventures of Galgameth''''') is a 1996 American [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Sean McNamara]] from a screenplay by [[Michael Angeli]]. The film stars Devin Neil Oatway, Johna Stewart and [[Stephen Macht]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Michel|first=Roudevitch |language=French|title=Galgameth, l'apprenti dragon|url=http://www.liberation.fr/guide/0101346404-galgameth-l-apprenti-dragon|access-date=May 8, 2013|newspaper=[[Libération]]|date=September 13, 2000}}</ref><ref name=Videohound>{{cite book|last=Craddock|first=Jim|title=Videohound's Golden Movie Retrieve|year=2005|publisher=Thomson/Gale|isbn=0787674702|pages=325|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRnQWgtuSKAC&q=%22Galgameth%22}}</ref> It is loosely based on a film [[Shin Sang-ok]] directed in 1985 while [[Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee|being held in North Korea]], ''[[Pulgasari]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Shapiro|first=Michael |title=A KIM JONG IL PRODUCTION|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/25/050425ta_talk_shapiro|access-date=May 31, 2013|newspaper=[[The New Yorker]]|date=April 25, 2005}}</ref><ref name="Apocalypse on the Set">{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Ben|title=Apocalypse on the Set: Nine Disastrous Film Productions|year=2012|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|isbn=978-1468300130|pages=168–169|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8qgKmZwt2cQC&q=%22Galgameth%22}}</ref> itself supposedly a remake of a [[Bulgasari|lost 1962 film]]. ''Galgameth'' was produced through Shin's production company Sheen Communications.<ref name="GalgamethBook">{{cite book |last=Chung|first= Steven|author-link= |date=2014|title=Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QS90DwAAQBAJ&dq=Shin+Sang-ok+%22Galgameth%22&pg=PT185|location= |publisher= University Of Minnesota Press|page= |isbn=978-0816691340}}</ref>
==Plot== In the [[Middle Ages|medieval kingdom]] of Donnegold, a young prince named Davin (Devin Oatway) lives with his father, the noble King Henryk ([[Sean McNamara (filmmaker)|Sean McNamara]]). This comes to an end when the King's black knight, El El ([[Stephen Macht]]), poisons him. As he lays dying, Henryk gives his son a small black statue of a creature. He tells him that it is called "Galgameth", the family guardian of [[legend]]. Davin takes it and while he is away mourning his father, El El secretly shatters the statue and takes command, thrusting the kingdom into turmoil under Davin's name. Davin is given the broken statue by a maidservant and cries. The next morning he finds that the statue has become a living creature which he nicknames "Galgy" ([[Felix Silla]] and [[Doug Jones (actor)|Doug Jones]]). Brought to life by the prince's tears, Galgameth becomes his friend and guardian as he finds himself chased by El El and in the company of disgruntled peasants who are planning a revolt in order to dethrone the man they think is the source of all their trouble, Prince Davin.
==Cast== * Devin Oatway as Prince Davin * [[Sean McNamara (filmmaker)|Sean McNamara]] as King Henryk * [[Stephen Macht]] as El El * [[Lou Wagner]] as Zethar * Time Winters as Templeton * James Nixon as Bertrand * [[Felix Silla]] as Little Galgy * [[Doug Jones (actor)|Doug Jones]] as Big Galgy * [[Brendan O'Brien (voice actor)|Brendan O'Brien]] as Heretic * [[Tom Dugan (actor, born 1961)|Tom Dugan]] as William * [[Richard Steven Horvitz]] as Kinch * Elizabeth Cheap as Periel * Patrick Richwood as Grecy * [[Ken Thorley]] as Footy * Johna Stewart-Bowden as Julia * Corneliu Țigancu as Zhidao
==Production== The production was filmed on locations in [[Romania]],<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news|last=Sandra Brennan|first=Rovi|author-link=Rovi|title=The Adventures of Galgameth|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/162008/The-Adventures-of-Galgameth/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225201143/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/162008/The-Adventures-of-Galgameth/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 25, 2008|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008|access-date=May 31, 2013}}</ref> including [[Bucharest]] and [[Zărnești]].
==Release== Original release was in Spain on November 18, 1996, followed by release in Japan on November 21. Its original Romanian title was ''Galgameth'' and had differing titles dependent upon the country and language of later releases. In Germany it was released as ''Galgameth - Das Ungeheuer des Prinzen''. In Spain its video title was as ''La leyenda de Galgameth'' and its television release title was ''Galgameth - El guerrero invencible''. In France it was released as ''Galgameth: L'apprenti dragon''. English release titles included both ''The Legend of Galgameth'' and the later ''The Adventures of Galgameth'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Riggs|first=Thomas|title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television|year=2004|publisher=Gale|volume=54 |pages=89|isbn=9780787670979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-BkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Galgameth%22}}</ref> which was released by [[Trimark Pictures|Trimark Home Video]] on July 29, 1997.<ref name=Billboard>{{cite magazine|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Eileen|title=Shelf Talk|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=7 June 1997|volume=109|issue=23|pages=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Galgameth%22&pg=PA75|access-date=May 31, 2013}}</ref>
==See also== * ''[[Pulgasari]]''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0113141}}
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