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1935 film
The Robber Kitten
is a 1935
Walt Disney
Silly Symphonies
cartoon, directed by
David Hand
.
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Plot
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A kitten named Ambrose is dreaming about running away and becoming a robber. Calling himself "Butch" at the beginning of the cartoon, he is seen play?acting a stagecoach robbery, which is interrupted by his mother calling for him to take a bath. Not wanting to take a bath in the first place, Ambrose runs away and becomes a robber, first stealing a bag of cookies. His first target turns out to be an actual robber: Dirty Bill the bulldog. Dirty Bill asks Ambrose if he has pulled off any robberies lately, and Ambrose tells him, "Just this morning, I held up a stagecoach." Then Dirty Bill asks Ambrose where his loot is, so Ambrose shows Dirty Bill the bag of cookies. Imagining that the bag is full of gold, Dirty Bill demands it and threatens Ambrose. Scared, Ambrose runs home and jumps into his bathtub, acting as if nothing else has happened.
Comic adaptation
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The cartoon short was adapted in a
Silly Symphony
comic strip
sequence by
Ted Osborne
and
Al Taliaferro
, which ran from February 24 to April 21, 1935. The storyline was titled "The Adventures of Ambrose the Robber Kitten".
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It was also translated and published in
Austria
(1938),
Australia
,
Belgium
(1952),
Brazil
(1979),
Finland
(1935),
France
(1935),
Germany
(2003),
United Kingdom
(1936),
Italy
(1935),
Spain
(1935), and
Yugoslavia
(1936).
Voice cast
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Home media
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The short was released on December 4, 2001, on
Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics
.
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It was also released on the
Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 5: Wind in the Willows
DVD in 2009.
References
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"Walt Disney's "The Robber Kitten" (1935)"
.
cartoonresearch.com
. Retrieved
19 December
2020
.
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b
Scott, Keith (3 October 2022).
Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2
. BearManor Media. p. 517.
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b
c
Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016).
Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series
(2nd ed.). Glendale, CA:
Disney Editions
. pp. 158?159.
ISBN
978-1-4847-5132-9
.
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Duvall, Earl; Taliaferro, Al; Osborne, Ted; De Maris, Merrill (2016).
Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics, vol 1
. San Diego: IDW Publishing.
ISBN
978-1631405587
.
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"Silly Symphonies: The Historic Musical Animated Classics DVD Review"
.
DVD Dizzy
. Retrieved
20 February
2021
.
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