With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
Retired madame Adelaide Bonfamille enjoys the good life in her Paris villa with even classier cat Duchess and three kittens: pianist Berlioz, painter Toulouse and sanctimonious Marie. When loyal butler Edgar overhears her will leaves everything to the cats until their death, he drugs and kidnaps them. However retired army dogs make his sidecar capsize on the country. Crafty stray cat Thomas O'Malley takes them under his wing back to Paris. Edgar tries to cover his tracks and catch them at return, but more animals turn on him, from the cart horse Frou-Frou to the tame mouse Roquefort and O'Malley's jazz friends.
Written by KGF Vissers
The character of Uncle Waldo, the English goose, was the last role of voice actor Bill Thompson, who died from a heart attack at age 58, shortly after the film was released.
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Goofs
Continuity:
Frou-Frou (the horse) bites off the tails on Edgars tux after he puts the cats in the trunk and tries to push them outside to be shipped to Timbuktu. Then in the next scene the tails re-appear.
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Quotes
Marie:
Ladies don't start fights, but they can finish them! See more »
Crazy Credits
At the end of the final reprise of "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" Lafayette
says, "Hey, Napoleon. That sounds like the end". Napoleon responds, "Wait a
minute. I'm the leader, I'll say when it's the end". The title "The End"
bumps into Napoleon's head and he says, "It's the end". The title then
throbs to the music. During the final fade out we hear Toulouse say "Oh,
yeah."
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