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Thursday, August 9, 2018
















     One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961  G  ANIMATED  1h 19min
CAST— Rod Taylor, Lisa Davis, Cate Bauer, Ben Wright, Fred Warlock, J. Pat O’Malley, Betty Lou Gerson
MUSIC— George Bruns, Mel Leven  DIRECTORS— Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi  BASED ON— The Hundred and One Dalmatians (novel), by Dodie Smith

     Old school Disney feature focusing more on story and talented animation than on song routines and frivolity. Somewhat morbid in premise, the film is nevertheless considered a family classic. A pair of married Dalmatians birth a litter of fifteen puppies, all to be lusted after by fur-crazed madwoman Cruella De Ville. Cruella has been stock-piling Dalmatian puppies for the ultimate fur coat. When her plan to buy the fifteen pups fails she relies upon two bumbling henchmen to do her dirty work and steal them. The Dalmatian parents soon recruit nearly all the dogs of the English countryside in their journey to find their missing children. Family films usually stay miles away from plot devices that include skinning adorable, innocent puppies, but Disney decided to take the risk, much to their advantage. Go figure.
OUR RATING— ** ½
FOLLOWED BY— 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure (2003)
REMADE AS— 101 Dalmatians (1996)

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