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Danny: The humans have tried everything. Now it`s up to us dogs, and the twilight bark.
Pongo: Perdy... I`m afraid it`s all up to us.
Perdita: Oh, Pongo. Isn`t there any hope?
Pongo: Well, yes. There`s the twilight bark.
Perdita: The twilight bark? But dear, that`s only a gossip chain.
Pongo: Darling, it`s the very fastest way to send news. And if our puppies are anywhere in the city, the London dogs will know. Now we`ll send the word tonight when our pets take us for a walk in the park.
Rolly: I`m hungry, Mother. I`m hungry.
Perdita: Now Rolly, you`ve just had your dinner.
Rolly: But I am, just the same. I`m so hungry I could eat a... a whole elephant.
Lucky: Mother, Dad! Patch pushed me in the fireplace.
Patch: Lucky pushed me first.
Lucky: Did not!
Patch: Did too!
Lucky: Did not!
Patch: Did too!
Lucky: Did *not*!
Jasper: I ain`t gonna hurt ya.
Horace: But I thought we was gonna pop `em off.
Jasper: Shh, shut up!
Truck Driver: [sees Cruella driving like a maniac] Hey, lady! What in thunder are you tryin` to do? Crazy woman driver!
Anita: Cruella, isn`t that a new fur coat?
Cruella De Vil: My only true love, darling. I live for furs. I worship furs! After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn`t?
[first lines]
Pongo: My story begins in London, not so very long ago. And yet so much has happened since then, that it seems more like an eternity.
Pongo: As far as I could see, the old notion that a bachelor`s life was so... glamorous and carefree was all nonsense. It was downright dull.
[Pongo sees Perdita for the very first time]
Pongo: Well, now that`s a bit more like it! The most beautiful creature on four legs! Oh, now, if only the girl...
[looks at Anita]
Pongo: Well! She`s very lovely too. It was almost too good to be true. I`d never find another pair like that, not if I looked for a hundred years.
Pongo: Perdita, darling, are you all right?
Perdita: Oh, of course, dear. After all, dogs were having puppies long before our time.
Cruella: Fifteen. Fifteen puppies! How marvelous! How marvelous! How perfectly... Ugh! Oh, the devil take it, they`re mongrels. No spots! No spots at all! What a horrid little white rat!
Nanny: They`re not mongrels! They`ll get their spots. Just wait and see.
Anita: That`s right, Cruella. They`ll have their spots in a few weeks.
Cruella: Oh, well, in that case I`ll take them all. The whole litter. Just name your price, dear.
Anita: I`m afraid we can`t give them up. Poor Perdita, she`d be heartbroken.
Cruella: Anita, don`t be ridiculous. You can`t possibly afford to keep them. You can scarcely afford to feed yourselves.
Anita: Well, I`m sure we`ll get along.
Cruella: [laughing] Yes, I know! I know! Roger`s...
[laughing]
Cruella: Roger`s songs!
[laughs again]
Cruella: When can the puppies leave their mother? Two weeks? Three weeks?
Roger: Never.
Cruella: What?
Roger: W-W-We`re n-not s-selling t-the puppies. N-N-Not a sing... a single one. Do you understand?
Cruella: Anita, is he serious? I really don`t know Roger.
Anita: Well, Cruella, he seems...
Cruella: Surely he must be joking!
Roger: No, no, no. I-I-I mean it. You`re-You`re not getting one. N-N-Not one. And that`s... that`s final!
Cruella: Why, you horrid man! You... you... all right, keep the little beasts for all I care.
[she rips up the cheque]
Cruella: Do as you like with them. Drown them.
[she walks up to Anita]
Cruella: But I warn you, Anita, we`re through. I`m through with all of you! I`ll get even. Just wait. You`ll be sorry! You fools! You... you IDIOTS!
Cruella De Vil: Alright, keep the little beasts for all I care! Do what you want with them! Drown them! But I warn you, Anita, we`re through! I`m through with all of you! I`ll get even! Just wait! You`ll be sorry, you fools! You... YOU IDIOTS!
Patch: That old Dirty Dawson! The yellow-livered old skunk! I`d like to tear his gizzard out.
Perdita: Why, Patch, where did you ever hear such talk? Certainly not from your mother!
[looks at Pongo suspiciously]
TV Announcer: Don`t miss next week`s exciting episode. Who will triumph?
Patch: Ol` Thunder always wins!
Jasper: There`s a new act just been passed in parliament. Comes under the heading of "Defence of the Realm Act", it`s article 4, section 29, it`s very important, you see, it`s the law, and it`s for your safety, ma`am.
Nanny: Well, I don`t care what Parliament realm, or whatever it is, says. You`re not coming in here, not with the mister and missus gone.
Jasper: Now, you`ve been gone and done it. You`ve cut me to the quick, lady. Why, I wouldn`t stay here if you asked me to.
[Nanny tries to throw a teapot at Jasper, but it misses and breaks]
Jasper: Not even for a cup of tea.
Seargent Tibs: Yes, sir. Righto, sir. Right away, sir!
Colonel: They say the ol` place is haunted or bewitched or some such fiddle faddle.
Seargent Tibs: Fiddle faddle and rot, sir.
Colonel: Just the same, Sergeant, use extreme caution. No telling what sort of hocus pocus you might run into.
Danny: [echoing] Good luck, Pongo. If you lose your way, contact the barking chain. They`ll be standing by!
Jasper: I`ll skin every one of them little spotted hyenas, if it`s the last thing I do.
Pongo: Everybody here? All fifteen?
Patch: Twice that many, Dad. Now there`s 99 of us!
Lucky: We gave `em the slip!
[slips]
Lucky: Didn`t we, Dad?
Lucky: I`m tired, and I`m hungry. And my tail`s froze. And my nose is froze. And my ears are froze. And my toes are froze.
Pongo: That`s the stuff! The blacker the better!
Roger: We`ll buy a big place in the country. We`ll have a plantation... a Dalmatian plantation!
Anita: Oh, Roger, that`s truly an inspiration.
Nanny: It`ll be a sensation!
Roger: We`ll have a Dalmatian plantation. A Dalmatian plantation, I say.
Cruella: You idiots! You fools! You imbeciles!
[bursts out crying]
Jasper: Ahhh... shaddup!
Horace: [Jasper is drinking] Hey, Jasper! Give us a swig! Just a short one?
Jasper: Now Horace, this hogwash ain`t fit for a fancy gent like yourself. Besides, you`d get crumbs in it, ya cabbage head!
Horace: All right! Guzzle the whole works, and I hope it gives ya cobby wobbles, that`s what!
Cruella De Vil: [Trying to write a check for the puppies] Oh blast this pen!
[Shakes it]
Cruella De Vil: Blast this wretched, wretched pen! EH!
[Splatters ink over Pongo and Roger]
Cruella De Vil: Anita dahling!
Anita: Oh hello Cruella, how are you?
Cruella De Vil: Miserable dahling, as usual, perfectly wretched.
Pongo: [Pongo and Perdita have just reunited with their puppies] Lucky! Patch! Pepper! And Rolly, you little rascal!
Rolly: Did you bring me anything to eat?
Penny: Old Thunderbolt`s the greatest dog in the whole world.
Patch: He`s even better than Dad.
Cadpig: No dog`s better than Dad.
[the pups run past Horace and Jasper while covered in soot]
Horace: Look, Jasper. Do you suppose they disguised themselves?
Jasper: [jokingly] Say now, Horace, that`s just what they did! Dogs is always paintin` themselve`s black!
[bops Horace on his head]
Jasper: You idiot!
Roger: [after counting the puppies] A hundred and one!
Anita: A hundred and one? My, where did they all come from?
Roger: Oh-ho, Pongo, you ol` rascal!
Jasper: [after locking Nanny in the attic] Hey! Horace, me lad! I`ve got a sneaky suspicion we`re not welcome here!
Horace: We`re from the Gas Company.
Jasper: [elbows him] `Lectric! `Lectric!
Horace: Uh... Electric Company.
Jasper: [as Pongo`s biting off his pants] Hey, Horace! They`re fighting dirty!
[Jasper picks up Tibs thinking that it`s a bottle. Tibs screeches]
Jasper: Hey look, Horace! We have a visitor, it`s a tabby cat!
[Tibbs run over to the piano and slams the lid down, with Horace`s head inside the piano]
Jasper: How about we make him a tabby cat stew!
[Tibs runs towards the wall]
Jasper: [sneaking up on Tibs holding a bottle] Or a cat casserole...
[chuckles]
Jasper: [throws bottle at Tibs] ... a la Mode!
[Tibs escapes the room through a hole in the wall by the door as the bottle smashes against the wall]
Pongo: Perdy, I`ve got an idea!
[rolls around in soot]
Perdita: Pongo, what on Earth...?
Pongo: Look! I`m a Labrador! We`ll all roll in the soot! We`ll all be Labradors!
Labrador: Say! That is an idea!
Pongo: Come on, kids! Roll in the soot!
Penny: You mean you want us to get dirty?
Pepper: Did you hear that, Freckles? Dad wants us to get dirty.
Cadpig: Mother, should we?
Perdita: [sighs] Do as your father says.
Pepper: This`ll be fun!
Cadpig: I always wanted to get good and dirty!
Roger: [singing] Ti tum ti ta ti / Ta tum ti ta tum...
[whistles]
Roger: Do you like my new song?
Anita: Ta tum ti ta tum... such clever lyrics.
Roger: Melody first, my dear, and then the lyrics. Hmmm?
Roger: Oh, must be Cruella, your dearly devoted old schoolmate. Cruella De Vil. That`s it!
[sings]
Roger: Cruella De Vil / Cruella De Vil / If she doesn`t scare you, no evil thing will...
Anita: Oh, Roger!
Roger: To see her is to take a sudden chill / Cruella, Cruella / She`s like a spider waiting for the kill...
Anita: Roger, she`ll hear you.
Roger: Look out for Cruella De Vil.
Roger: At first you think Cruella is a devil / But after time has worn away the shock / You come to realize / You`ve seen her kind of eyes / Watching you from underneath a rock.
Anita: You`re no help.
Roger: This vampire bat, this inhuman beast / She ought to be locked up and never released / The world was such a wholesome place until / Cruella, Cruella De Vil.
Cruella De Vil: I`ve got no time to argue. I tell you, it`s got to be done tonight!
[Turns off television set]
Cruella De Vil: Do you understand? Tonight!
Horace: But they ain`t big enough.
Jasper: You couldn`t get half a dozen coats out of the whole kaboodle.
Seargent Tibs: [whispering] Coats? Dog skin coats?
Cruella De Vil: Then we`ll settle for half a dozen! We can`t wait! The police are everywhere. I want the job done tonight!
Horace: How`re we gonna do it?
Cruella De Vil: Any way you like. Poison them. Drown them. Bash them in the head. You got any chloroform?
Jasper: Not a drop.
Horace: And no ether, either.
Jasper: Eye-ther!
[Hits Horace over the head with bottle]
Cruella De Vil: I don`t care how you kill the little beasts, but do it, and do it now!
Jasper: Aw, please, miss. Have pity, will ya? Can`t we see the rest of the show first?
Horace: We want to see "What`s My Crime?"
[Cruella takes Jasper`s bottle and throws it into the fireplace, where it explodes; she slaps both of them in the face]
Cruella De Vil: Now listen, you idiots! I`ll be back first thing in the morning. And the job better be done or I`ll... I`ll... I`ll call the police! Do you understand?
[She slams the door behind her; a piece of plaster falls of the ceiling and on Horace`s head]
Horace: I think she means it, Jasper.
Pongo: Perdy?
Perdita: That witch. That devil woman. She wants our puppies. That`s all she`s after.
Pongo: Don`t worry, Perdy. They`re on to her. Nothing`s going to happen to our puppies.
Perdita: But what does she want with them? She can`t possibly love them. Oh, Pongo. I was so happy at first, but now I... Oh, I... I wish we weren`t having any.
Lucy: Towser, what`s going on? What is it? What`s all the gossip?
Towser: `Taint no gossip, Lucy. It be all the way from London.
Lucy: You don`t say!
Towser: Fifteen puppies stolen!
Lucy: There`s no puppies around here, not since Nellie`s last little and they all are grown.
Towser: Well, then we`d best send the word along. It be up to me to reach the Colonel! He be the only one in barking range.
Lucy: You`ll never reach him at this hour.
Towser: Well I can try! I`ll bark all night if I have to.
[the Colonel and Seargent Tibs are still waiting for Pongo and Perdita]
Captain: Any news Colonel?
Colonel: No. Not a blast thing. They`re lost or captured, or something or other. Who knows what.
Seargent Tibs: Colonel, here comes a car!
Colonel: Oh, come now, Tibs. Don`t be ridiculous. They wouldn`t be driving.
Rolly: I`m not sleepy. I`m hungry.
Anita: Oh, Roger, you are an idiot.
[Cruella is reading the newspapers headlining the capture of the Dalmatian puppies]
Cruella De Vil: [reads one headline] "Dognapping!" Tsk, tsk, tsk. Can you imagine such a thing?
[reads another headline]
Cruella De Vil: "Fifteen Puppies Stolen". They are darling little things.
[she looks at the photos in the papers of the Radcliffs and their Dalmatians]
Cruella De Vil: Anita.
[Cruella laughs]
Cruella De Vil: And her bashful Beethoven, pipe and all! Oh, Roger, you are a fool!
[the dalmatians are hiding from Jasper and Horace under a bridge across a frozen creek]
Jasper: Aw, they gotta be around here somewhere.
Horace: Jasper, I`ve been thinkin`...
Jasper: Now, Horace!
Horace: But what if they went down the froze-up creek so as not to leave their tracks?
Jasper: Oh, Horace, you idiot! Dogs ain`t that smart.
Cruella De Vil: [on the phone with Jasper] Jasper! Jasper, you idiot! How dare you call me at this hour?
Jasper: We want our bootle! We got `em all!
Cruella De Vil: Not one shilling until the job is done! Understand?
Horace: Jasper! Jasper!
[shows newspaper]
Jasper: [to Cruella] But it`s here in the blinkin` papers! Pictures and all!
Cruella De Vil: Hang the papers! It`ll be forgotten tomorrow!
Horace: I don`t like it, Jasper. I just don`t.
Jasper: [to Horace] Ahh, shut up, you idiot!
Cruella De Vil: [shouts] What?!
Jasper: [to Cruella] Oh, no, ma`am! I don`t mean you! I mean Horace, here!
Cruella De Vil: Why, you imbecile!
Cruella De Vil: [she has found footprints leading towards the village] After them!
[as Jasper and Horace pull out in fronmt of her, she brakes and the car goes spinning]
Cruella De Vil: Aye, you imbeciles!
Jasper: Hey, look, Horace! Watch me pot His Lordship smack on the conk!
Trivia
Someone counted all black spots in the movie, frame-by-frame, and reached the total of 6,469,952.
Several of the characters from Lady and the Tramp (1955) can be seen in a pet shop window during the twilight bark sequence.
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# When Pongo and Perdita fight the Bad`uns, the same sounds in the background are from the scene that Tramp fights three alley dogs on Lady and the Tramp (1955).
At one point Jasper and Horace`s TV set features Disney`s award-winning cartoon short Springtime (1929).
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# When the Baduns are talking on the phone to Cruella, they are holding a newspaper. The only headline on the front page (apart from the dognapping) is CARLSEN SPEAKS, and a picture of a capsized ship. This helps us to date the story, since the Carlsen in question is Kurt Carlsen, captain of the freighter Flying Enterprise, which sank after a prolonged struggle in the Atlantic. This was the media event of the year in 1952.
Due to the commercial failure of Sleeping Beauty (1959), production costs needed to be cut. As a result, this was the first Disney feature film to use photocopying technology (Xerography), which made an animated film with this much visual complexity possible. It also set the visual style of Disney animation (a scratchy, hard outline look) for years until the technology advanced enough (with the production of The Rescuers (1977)) to allow a softer look.
This film was shot in Standard Academy (1.33:1), although it was designed to be matted to a ratio of 1.75 for widescreen-equipped theatres. When re-released in the mid-1990s, the entire 1.33 frame was matted within a 1.85 (flat) viewing area, so that the entire animated frame could be seen, since most modern theatres no long have the equipment to run films in Academy ratio.
Cruella De Vil was designed as a manic take-off on the flamboyant actress Tallulah Bankhead, as well as some of her personality quirks.
The various vehicles in the movie are live-action models painted white with black lines. Each frame of the live-action footage was Xeroxed onto cels and painted the same as the hand-drawn characters. This would become standard procedure at Disney and other studios until the mid-1980s, when computer animated models first came into use.
Art director Ken Anderson came up with the idea of overlaying cels of line drawings over the painted backgrounds to match the Xeroxed cels of the characters. For the next twenty years, all Disney features - with the exception of The Jungle Book (1967) and the animated segments in Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - would use this technique for their backgrounds. With The Fox and the Hound (1981), Disney returned to fully painted backgrounds, with a brief reprise of the cel overlay for Oliver & Company (1988).
In the early 1990s merchandise tied-in with the video`s release was quickly pulled from shelves because the word Dalmatian had been spelled incorrectly as "Dalmation" on some of the product packaging. The merchandise was only available at Disneyland or the Disney Stores.
Walt Disney disliked the rough drawing style brought about by the Xerography process.
CASTLE THUNDER: Various versions are used during the storm while the puppies are born. The version used on "Bambi" is heard when Cruella enters, and again when she leaves and Pongo barks at her.
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# The final film for animator Marc Davis. After animating Cruella De Vil in this film, Davis went to work for WED Enterprises, designing for such Disneyland rides as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean.
In the USA, this was the highest grossing movie of 1961.
HIDDEN MICKEY: on almost all the Dalmatians.
Quite a few liberties were taken in bringing the book to the screen. In the original story, the two Dalmatians who ran across England to rescue their pups were named Pongo and Missis Pongo, or just plain Missis; Perdita was a stray whose own puppies had been sold, and who was taken into the household to help wet nurse Missis` fifteen puppies. In the film, their owners are named Roger and Anita Radcliffe; in the book, they`re Mr. and Mrs. Dearly, no first names given. The book also features two Nannies (Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler) to the film`s one; Jasper appears under the same name in both versions, but Saul is changed to Horace for the film; and Tib, the book`s heroic gray tabby female, is transformed into an orange-colored tom. However, the film was not the first time the story had undergone changes; "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" first appeared as a serial in Ladies` Home Journal, under the title "The Great Dog Robbery".
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# During the twilight bark, after the poodle barks on the car, Tramp is seen on top of the car in the upper right corner. Lady is then seen running into the alley from the bottom left.
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# On previous Disney animated features, the top animators were assigned a character and drew the bulk (if not all) of that particular character`s scenes individually. Animation on this film was far more of a "team effort" - for example, seven of the famed "Nine Old Men" worked on Perdita. There was one notable exception: Marc Davis drew Cruella De Vil entirely on his own.
Clarence Nash (best known as the voice of Donald Duck) did the dog barks for this film.
The author of the book on which the film is based, Dodie Smith, was a successful playwright and novelist who had nine Dalmations of her own. She got the idea for the book when a friend who was at her house saw all the dogs together and remarked, "Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat."
The book`s author, Dodie Smith, named the lead dog Pongo after her own Dalmatian.
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