The AristoCats (1970)


The AristoCats
Release Date11 December 1970
Budget$4,000,000
TaglineMeet the cats who know where it's at...for fun, music and adventure!
GenreAnimation, Adventure, Family, Music
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor

The Aristocats is an animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970 and stars Eva Gabor and Phil Harris, with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar the butler, the villain of the story. The twentieth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress' fortune which was meant to go to them. It was originally released to theaters by Buena Vista Distribution on December 11, 1970. The title is a pun on the word aristocrats.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Thomas O'Malley

Duchess

Roquefort

Scat Cat

Dean Clark
Berlioz

Shun Gon

Liz English
Marie

Thurl Ravenscroft
Billy Bass

Gary Dubin
Toulouse

Peppo

Lord Tim Hudson
Hit Cat

Frou-Frou

Napoleon

Lafayette

Abigail

Roddy Maude-Roxby
Butler

Lawyer

Uncle Waldo

Frou-Frou

Robie Lester
Duchess

Milkman, Le Petit Cafe Cook

Director

Wolfgang Reitherman
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Writer

Larry Clemmons

Vance Gerry

Ken Anderson

Eric Cleworth

Julius Svendsen

Tom McGowan

Tom Rowe

Producer

Winston Hibler
producer

Wolfgang Reitherman
producer

Original Music

George Bruns
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Editor

Tom Acosta
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Production Designer

Ken Anderson
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Production Manager

Don A. Duckwall
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Dan Alguire
assistant director

Edward Hansen
assistant director

Sound Department

Robert O. Cook
sound

Visual Effects

Dick N. Lucas
effects animator

Dan MacManus
effects animator

Animation Department

Eric Cleworth
character animator

Basil Davidovich
layout artist

Al Dempster
background artist

Don Griffith
layout artist

Fred Hellmich
character animator

Ralph Hulett
background artist

directing animator

Milt Kahl
directing animator

Hal King
character animator

Eric Larson
character animator

Bill Layne
background artist

John Lounsbery
directing animator

David Michener
character animator

Sylvia Roemer
layout artist

character animator

Julius Svendsen
character animator

directing animator

John Emerson
layout artist

Music Department

Evelyn Kennedy
music editor

Walter Sheets
orchestrator

Production Company

Walt Disney Productions
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Distributor

Buena Vista Distribution Company

Buena Vista International Finland

Suomi-Filmi

Buena Vista Pictures

Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE)

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Abril Vídeo

Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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