The Aristocats

Pedigreed mother cat Duchess and her kittens, Toulouse, Berlioz and Marie, live a carefree life in Gay Paree under the devoted care of Madame Bonfamille. When jealous butler Edgar discovers that Bonfamille has willed her estate to the cats before him, he decides to remove them from the scene. Kidnapped and abandoned far in the French countrieside, the misplaced Aristocats are befriended by an easygoing tomcat named Thomas O'Malley, who, with his gang of swingin' alley cats, helps Duchess and the kittens get back to Paris-and frustrate Edgar's corrupt schemes.

Duchess, Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley, Berlioz, Marie, Toulouse, Roquefort, Edgar, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, Georges Hautecourt, Uncle Waldo, Frou-Frou, Napoleon, Lafayette, Scat Cat, Chinese Cat, English Cat, Italian Cat, Russian Cat, Abigail Gabble, Amelia Gabble, French Milkman

The Disney films entered a long period of decline with the release of this film. With the studio left in the hands of Donn Tatum, Card Walker, and Ron Miller, the company was effectively headless and leaderless, at least creatively. The films released over the next eighteen-year period either failed commercially or suffered from a lack the magic... or, more often, both.

When Gold Key Comics began its brief series of "Aristocats" spin-off stories, the Russian cat was named Boris, the British cat Cyril, the Siamese cat Chino, and the Italian one Luigi.

It's worth noting that Scatman Crothers did the voices of 3 separate characters named Scat Cat throughout the 1970's: for Disney (1970), Hanna-Barbera (1977: in "The Skatebirds"), and Don Bluth (1979: in "Banjo the Woodpile Cat").

This was the 20th film in the official Disney list of animated films.