After moving to Paris in 1961, he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 - 30 December 2011) was a British artist and satirical cartoonist. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it." (dust jacket front flap). The trouble is, it's so secret that no knows what it is. The film's release was accompanied by the original release of a deluxe-jacketed LP soundtrack recording and a colourful storybook by Jeremy Hornsby, with colourful Searle-inspired art. Animation and direction were by Bill Melendez, who produced the Charlie Brown television cartoons, based on character drawings by veteran cartoonist Ronald Searle. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe and The Mikado, in which the principal character, Able Seaman Dick Deadeye, is sent by Queen Victoria on a quest to recover the "Ultimate Secret" from the Sorcerer, who has stolen it. The comically convoluted plot is a pastiche of many of the operas in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, particularly Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated film musical, based on the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Original color pictorial (price-clipped) dust jacket. Publisher's red paper cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated in color throughout.
Dick Deadeye based on the drawings of Ronald Searle and the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it." SEARLE, Ronald.
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