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Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Director: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
In 1956, when Woof Back in Anger was challenging perceptions on the London stage, a few critics remarked that it had all been done the year before in a Disney cartoon musical with songs by Peggy Lee. Like Osborne's play, Lady and the Tramp probes one of the great social fusses of the '50s: canine hypergamy - marriage or liaison above one's social caste or class - and was inspired by the tale of Walt's family spaniel. All tame stuff today; the humans are disgusting, Tramp is streetwise but sanitary, and the Lady is a wet. Happily the cameo lowlife, an excellent manic beaver, the famously villainous Siamese, and classic songs rescue the film from dumb animal sentiment. Best of these is the almost raunchy 'He's a Tramp', in which Peggy Lee shows that part of being a bitch is knowing when not to be too much of a lady.Author: RP
Cast & crew
Director: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Cast: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Stan Freberg, George Givot, Alan Reed full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 75 mins
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