Video: 'The Lion King' trailer

(Wednesday, June 15, 1994) — The Lion King, an action film about a morally ambivalent cop who must remove a bomb planted under a bus that’s triggered to explode when its speed drops below 50 mph, began a limited release in North America today.

Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, the film featured the voices Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin and Jim Cummings.