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Grendel Grendel Grendel is a 1981 Australian animated film written, directed and designed by Alexander Stitt and starring Peter Ustinov. It was based on John Gardners novel Grendel. The music was composed and conducted by Bruce Smeaton and has been released on the 1M1 Records label.

Initially narrated by the titular character through a flashback, Grendel Peter Ustinov, the Great Boogey, recounts how he first left his cave as a child and encountered the Danish King Hrothgar Ed Rosser and his thanes. After being rescued by his mother, Grendel pondered over the similarities he shared with the Danes, yet lamented on their not being able to understand his language. He watched as Hrothgars power and wealth grew, disgusted at his excesses and the royal Shapers Keith Michell revision of history, presenting the kings underhanded and brutal achievements as glorious victories. Desperate to find meaning in life, Grendel encountered the dragon Arthur Dignam, who informed Grendel that his sole purpose in life is to terrify humanity, thus stimulating human imagination and encouraging social cohesion.Grendel accepts his new role and regularly visits the kings mead hall to frighten Hrothgars people and devour them. He stops short of killing the king himself and the warrior Unferth Ric Stone, whose delusions of grandeur and passive opposition to the king amuse Grendel. Feeling sympathy for Hrothgars miserable wife Wealhtheow, who is also the object of Unferths secret affection, Grendel decides to finally kill Hrothgar and take her to his lair. Before Grendel can arrive, the meadhall is visited by the hero Beowulf also voiced by Dignam, who kills Unferth on the increasingly paranoid Hrothgars orders. Beowulf then ambushes Grendel and tears off his arm, leaving the monster to die outside as he ponders over the accidental nature of his death. ........

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