The Aristocats
1970 animated film directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated feature with Minnie Mouse, produced and released by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. The story revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after their butler kidnapped them to gain his mistress' fortune which was meant to go to the cats.
- Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. Produced by Wolfgang Reitherman, Winston Hibler. Written by Ken Anderson.
DIG THESE CATS...and all that JAZZ!
Dialogue
edit- [As the kittens try to get through their pet door]
- Berlioz: Wait for me! Wait for me!
- Marie: Me first! Me first!
- Toulouse: Why should you be first?
- Marie: 'Cause I'm a lady. That's why.
- Toulouse: [scoffs] You're not a lady.
- Berlioz: [grabs Marie's tail] You're nothin' but a sister!
- Marie: I'll show you if I'm a lady or not.
- [Edgar Balthazar is determined to get rid of Duchess and her kittens as soon as possible. Madame will grieve, but she'll get over it. Then Edgar Balthazar will inherit her fortune. He chuckles, a cold evil sound, and pours a handful of sleeping tablets into the pan of creamy milk he is warming on the stove. As he stirs, he hums]
- Edgar Balthazar: [sings] Rock-a-bye, kitties. Bye-bye you go. La la la la, and I'm in the dough. Oh, Edgar, you sly fox. [He doesn't have long to wait now. He pours the brew into the cats' feeding bowls]
- Napoleon: Now you go for the tires, and I'll go right for the seat of the problem.
- Lafayette: Now, how come you always get the tender part? [stumbles on his own ear]
- Napoleon: Because I outrank you, that's why. Now stop beating your gums and sound the attack! [Lafayette barks several times] No, that's mess call!
- Lafeyette: Ha ha, makin' a mess of it huh?
- Napoleon: YOU can be REPLACED, you know.
- [Just at this time, two white geese come walking over the top of the hill. Named Amelia and Abigail, they are sisters on holiday from England]
- Abigail: What beautiful countryside.
- Amelia: Yes. So much like our own darling England. [She glances toward the river] I say, look over there. [Her sister's eyes widen. Thomas O'Malley, trying to save himself, is clutching a willow branch that is overhanging the river] Fancy that...a cat learning to swim. He's going about it all the wrong road.
- Abigail: We must correct him. [She always exists that everything be done in the correct manner]
- [The two geese waddle down the bank and slip into the river]
- Amelia: Sir...sir! You are most fortunate we happened along. We're here to help you. You will never learn to swim properly with that willow branch in your mouth. [She bites into Thomas O'Malley's lifeline] Snip, snip. Here we go!
- Thomas O'Malley: Don't do that! Blub! [He sinks]
- Abigail: Oh, he takes to water like a fish, doesn't he? A very enthusiastic…
- [Thomas O'Malley tries to catch them by the tail-feathers. They laugh]
- Amelia: No, thank you! This is no time for fun and games!
- [Bubbles begin to form on the surface of the water. The geese look worried]
- Abigail: Gracious, Amelia....you don't suppose....?
- Amelia: Oh yes! Yes I do. Bottoms up!
- [They dive, and emerge without Thomas O'Malley]
- Amelia and Abigail: Deeper!
- [They dive to the bottom of the riverbed]
- Thomas O'Malley: Ya know something? I like Uncle Waldo.
- Duchess: Especially when he's marinated.
- Napoleon: Lafayette. Lafayette. Listen.
- Lafayette: Shucks, Napoleon, that ain't nothin' but a li'l old cricket bug.
- Napoleon: It's squeaky shoes approachin'.
- Lafayette: Aw, cricket-bugs don't wear shoes.
- Napoleon: Hush yer mouth. Let's see. They're Oxford shoes. Size nine-and-a-half. Hole in the left sole, it sounds like.
- Lafayette: What color are they?
- Napoleon: Why, they're black;–– Now, how would I know that? [Edgar takes off his shoes and places them next to the haystack.] Hey! Now the squeaking has stopped.
- Lafayette: I still say it was a li'l old cricket bug.
- Napoleon: I'm the leader! I'll decide what it was! [pause] It was a li'l old cricket bug.
- Lafayette: I'll see ya in the morning, Napoleon.
- Lafeyette: D-D-D-D-Did y' see him?
- Napoleon: No, no, he sneaked up behind me and tailgated me.
- Lafeyette: Well he didn't hurt me; he hit me on the head!
- Napoleon: SHH. Listen. Sounds a one-wheeled old....
- Lafeyette: A one-wheeled what?
- Napoleon: You're not gonna believe this, but it's a one-wheeled haystack! Hey! There it goes! Come on! After it!
- [Napoleon and Lafayette start barking and jump into the haystack filled sidecar to attack Edgar once again. Edgar tries to escape, but gets pulled back.]
- Lafayette: I got him! I got him! I got him!
- [Napoleon pops out yelping in pain.]
- Napoleon: Ow! That's me!
- Thomas O'Malley: Well, there it is! My old pent-house pad! It's not exactly the Ritz, but it's peaceful an' quiet.
- [Trumpet music fills the air]
- Thomas O'Malley: [laughing] Ah! Oh, no! Sounds like Scat Cat and his gang have dropped by.
- Duchess: Ah! Friends of yours?
- Thomas O'Malley: Yeah, they're old buddies, and… well, they're real swingers.
- Duchess: Shwingers? [sic]. What is a shwinger?
- Thomas O'Malley: Well, not exactly your type, Duchess; maybe we'd better go somewhere else.
- Duchess: O no no no! I'd like to see your "pad" and meet your "Scat Cat".
- Thomas O'Malley: Well, okay. [They head over to the alley cats' apartment.] Hey, Scat Cat! Blow some of that sweet stuff my way.
- [Scat Cat plays a tune on his trumpet before he and the other alley cats welcome O'Malley back home.]
- Scat Cat: [laughs] Well, lookie here. Big man O'Malley's back in his alley. Swing on down here, daddy!
- [O'Malley enters the building and passes by Shun Gon by sliding through his piano.]
- Thomas O'Malley: Lay some skin on me, Scat Cat! [They exchange hi-fives.] Yeah!
- [During "Ev'rybody Wants to be a Cat" Berlioz and Shun Gon play the piano. The latter plays an East Asian riff using two pairs of chopsticks]
- Shun Gon: Shanghai Hong Kong egg foo young! [chortles] Fortune Cookie always wrong! [guffaws again and looks at Berlioz] Oh, that's a hot one!
- [Duchess and her kittens are trapped]
- Toulouse: I told you it was Edgar.
- Berlioz: Aw, shut up, Toulouse!
- [Roquefort arrives in the alley where Scat Cat and his gang hang out; Scat Cat snatches him and holds him up]
- Scat Cat: What's a little swinger like you doin' on our side of town?
- Roquefort: Oh, please, I was sent here for help! By a cat!
- Scat Cat: Why this is outrageous! It's crazy!
- Roquefort: Honest! He told me just to mention his name!
- Billy Boss: So? Start mentioning names, rodent!
- Roquefort: Oh, now, wait a minute. D-don't rush me. His name is - O'Toole.
- Scat Cat: I don't dig him. Strike one.
- Roquefort: O...O'Brien!
- Scat Cat: Strike two.
- Roquefort: Oh, boy. You believe me, don't you?
- Hit Cat: Keep talkin', Mousy.
- Roquefort: How about...O...Grady?
- Scat Cat: Mousy, you just struck out. [points a claw at Roquefort] Any last words?
- [Roquefort’s fear is soon replaced with anger]
- Roquefort: WHY DID I LISTEN TO THAT O’MALLEY CAT?!
- Alley Cats: [surprised] O'Malley?!
- Scat Cat: Hold it, cats! This little guy’s on the level!
- Roquefort: You’re darn tooting I’m on the level.
- Peppo: Oh, we didn’t mean to…to ruffle you, Squeaky.
- Roquefort: Don’t worry about me! O’Malley needs help. Duchess and kittens are in trouble!
- (O’Malley opens the trunk where Edgar locked Duchess and the kittens)
- O’Malley: Everybody out of here fast!
- (Before O’Malley, Duchess, and the kittens can jump out, Edgar slams them back in)
- Edgar: You’re going to Timbuktu if it’s the last thing I do!
- (Billy Boss unties a knot holding a heavy bale of hay which hits Edgar on the head. The alley cats then drop a horse collar on Edgar to trap his arms and dump a bucket of water on his head. Peppo hooks a rope to the collar and signals to Frou-Frou who pulls the rope with her tail, pulling Edgar off the trunk and freeing O’Malley, Duchess, and the kittens from the trunk. Edgar then braces himself as Frou-Frou kicks him in the rear and knocks him into the trunk, sliding it outside)
- [Last lines]
- Lafayette: Hey, Napoleon, that sounds like the end.
- Napoleon: Wait a minute. I'm the leader. I'll say when it's the end. [the words "The End" hit him on the head] It's the end. [thud]
Taglines
edit- A purr-fectly wonderful new cartoon feature.
- Meet the cats who know where it's at...for fun, music and adventure!
- A tune-filled animated extravaganza.
- Get with the cats who know where it's at!
- DIG THESE CATS...and all that JAZZ!
Cast
edit- Phil Harris as Thomas O' Malley
- Eva Gabor as Duchess
- Sterling Holloway as Roquefort
- Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat
- Paul Winchell as Shun Gon
- Lord Tim Hudson as Hit Cat
- Vito Scotti as Peppo
- Thurl Ravenscroft as Billy Boss
- Leone Ledoux as Minnie Mouse
- Clarence Nash as Figaro
- Dean Clark as Berlioz
- Liz English as Marie
- Gary Dubin as Toulouse
- Nancy Kulp as Frou Frou
- Pat Buttram as Napoleon
- George Lindsey as Lafayette
- Monica Evans as Abigail
- Carole Shelley as Amelia
- Charles Lane as Georges Hautecourt
- Hermione Baddeley as Madame Adelaide
- Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar Balthazar
- Bill Thompson as Uncle Waldo
External links
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- The Aristocats quotes at the Internet Movie Database
