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One Hundred And One Dalmatians / 101 Dalmatians


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  One Hundred And One Dalmatians  / 101 Dalmatians Review
Tookey's Rating
9 /10
 
Average Rating
7.82 /10
 
Starring
Voices: Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson
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Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske
Written by: Bill Peet from Dodie Smith's novel

 
 
 
Released: 1961
   
Genre: CARTOON
FAMILY
COMEDY
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 79
 
 


 

Two canine detectives try to find Dalmatian pups dogknapped for their skins in London.

Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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1996 saw a live-action remake of the same story, but the original cartoon version takes some beating. Economics meant that the backgrounds here are less animated than in the very finest Disney cartoons, and there's an odd sense of period (parts of it seem set in the Sixties, yet much of it is Edwardian). Even so, this was easily the best Disney cartoon of the Sixties, with a classic villainess in Cruella de Vil (splendidly voiced by Betty Lou Gerson), good gags, and a story - based on Dodie Smith's novel - which children and adults alike will find gripping and heartwarming.

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