

Roger firmly denies her request Cruella swears revenge, and storms out.Ī few months later, Cruella hires brothers Horace and Jasper Baddun, two burglars, to steal the puppies. When the puppies are born, Cruella returns, demanding to buy them. Roger responds by writing a jazzy song mocking her. After Perdita becomes pregnant with a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's fur-obsessed former schoolmate, Cruella de Vil, arrives and demands to know when the puppies will arrive. The pair hires a nanny and moves to a small townhouse near Regent's Park. Roger and Anita fall in love, and soon marry, with Pongo and Perdita attending.

Noticing Anita and her Dalmatian Perdita, he drags Roger to the park to arrange a meeting. Deciding both of them need a "mate", Pongo watches women and their dogs in the street. A live-action reboot titled Cruella directed by Craig Gillespie was released on May 28, 2021, in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access simultaneously.Īspiring songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in London, in a bachelor flat with his pet dalmatian, Pongo. A direct-to-video animated sequel to the 1961 film titled 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure was released in 2003. Disney later released a live-action remake titled 101 Dalmatians in 1996 and its sequel 102 Dalmatians in 2000. Aside from its box-office revenue, the employment of inexpensive animation techniques-such as using xerography during the process of inking and painting traditional animation cels-kept production costs down. The film was originally released in theaters on January 25, 1961, and was a box office success, pulling the studio out of the financial slump caused by Sleeping Beauty, a costlier production released two years prior, and became the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year in the North American box office.

Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their puppies from Cruella, in the process of rescuing 84 additional ones that were bought in pet shops, bringing the total of Dalmatians to 101.

The film's plot follows a litter of Dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil ("deVille"), who wants to make their fur into coats. The 17th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Bill Peet, and features the voices of Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, and Martha Wentworth. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also simply known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith.
