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Bookmark this pageThe AristoCats (1970)
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
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From Time Out Film Guide
The last of the Disney animated features conceived under the great Walt's perfectionist reign of terror, this 1970 Technicolor classic marks the move towards the less labour-intensive ink-and-wash cell design which followed. The ersatz Parisian atmosphere, circa 1910, is a wonder. Maurice Chevalier may have made the theme song familiar, but the voice cast boasts a fine array of ex-pats: spinster cat-lover Mme Bonfamille is Hermione Baddeley; the conniving butler - the cad who casts her cats into the countryside to inherit her wealth - is Roddy Maude-Roxby; her beloved cat Duchess the seductive Eva Gabor. As Scatman Crothers has it: 'Everybody's picking up the feline beat, 'cos everything else is ob-so-lete!' Purr-fect.Author: WH
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- Beckie, said...
- Posted on Nov 18 2008 14:01 I think this is a great children's story, with lots of twists and turns in the plot. Everything ends happily ever after in the end, as all good stories should. :)
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Cast & crew
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Producer: Wolfgang Reitherman, Winston Hibler
Cast: Hermione Baddeley, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Eva Gabor, Phil Harris, Sterling Holloway full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 78 mins
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