One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman

1961 / 79min / DCP

Based on a children’s novel of the same name by Dodie Smith, animated musical One Hundred and One Dalmatians gave the Walt Disney pantheon one of its greatest villains in the person of vindictive and indefatigable heiress Cruella de Vil (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson), whose monomaniacal obsession with getting herself a fur coat made out of dalmatian pelts is opposed by a young London couple, their dogs, Pongo and Perdita, and Pongo and Perdita’s vast litter of puppies. A brisk, clever, and sometimes quite camp film fable.