The Robber Kitten

The Robber Kitten
Directed by	David Hand
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	Bill Cottrell
Starring	Billy Bletcher; Clarence Nash
Music by	Frank Churchill
Animation by	Bob Wickersham; Marvin Woodward; Hardie Gramatky; Hamilton Luske; Bill Roberts
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists Pictures
Release date	April 20, 1935
Running time	7:48
Language	English

The Robber Kitten is a 1935 Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon, directed by David Hand.[1]

Plot

Ambrose, a kitten, dreams of running away to become 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, he decides to run away and become a robber, first stealing a bag of cookies. His first target turns out to be an actual robber: Dirty Bill, a bulldog. Dirty Bill asks Ambrose if he had pulled off any robberies lately, and Ambrose tells him "just this morning I held up a stagecoach." Dirty Bill asks Ambrose where his loot is, so Ambrose shows Dirty Bill the bag of cookies. Imagining the bag to be full of gold, Dirty Bill demands the bag and threatens Ambrose. Scared, Ambrose runs home and jumps in his bath, acting as though nothing happened.

Comic adaptation

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".[2] 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), Yugoslavia (1936).

Voice cast

Ambrose: Shirley Reed
Dirty Bill: Billy Bletcher
Horse whinny, Tarzan yell: Clarence Nash[1]

Home media

The short was released on the 2001 Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set Silly Symphonies.[1]

It also appeared on the Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 5: Wind in the Willows DVD, released in 2009.

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References

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.
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.

External links

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[symphony1-1] 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.

[IDW-v1-2] 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.