Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective (1986) is an animated movie based on the children’s book series Basil of Baker Street written by Eve Titus and Paul Galdone, and features Basil the mouse who ...

Disney's “Great Mouse Detective” mixes literature, science and scifi in a late 1800s setting. The 1986 film is a take-off on Sherlock Holmes and powers of deduction.

Some people trace the revival of Walt Disney animation to 1989’s “The Little Mermaid,” but one of the main reasons that “Mermaid” got the go-ahead was because of the success of 1986’s ...

Disney’s 1986 adaptation of those books, The Great Mouse Detective, is one of the underappreciated gems in the studio’s back catalogue.The story finds Dr. Dawson arriving back in London after ...

He was surprised when he was assigned to direct Mickey’s Christmas Carol, which led to his contributions on The Great Mouse Detective. Mattinson was named a Disney Legend in 2008.