Description taken from Wikipedia:One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also simply known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. The 17th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Bill Peet, and features the voices of Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, and Martha Wentworth. The film's plot follows a litter of Dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil ("deVille"), who wants to make their fur into coats. Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their puppies from Cruella, in the process of rescuing 84 additional ones that were bought in pet shops, bringing the total of Dalmatians to 101.
Preservation of a copy of the original VHS release.
Reviewer:
Jordan Christopher Lewans
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January 1, 2023
Subject:
"After all, dogs were having puppies long before our time."
Watched this in-full for the first time since I was a single-digit age. As tends to be the case whenever one revisits entertainment from one's childhood, one notices things differently. First and foremost for me was Cate Bauer's channelling of Eva Gabor for the voice of Perdi. (I don't know that's what she was aiming for, but that's what I hear) So delicate & lovely. X)
Second was my noticing how different this film was from Disney's previous works. Although a classic now, this was arguably the first of the 'modern' Disney movies, given it's departure from the orchestra soundtracks & into a fresh jazz theme (apart from certain dramatic scenes).
Third was how I identified so much less with puppies, as I did as a child, & more with the adult dogs', especially the adventures of the Colonel & Tibbs. Their channelling of an old civic defense squad who've never moved on from the war was rather endearing. Disappointing how abruptly their presence in the story ended.