A charming piece of vintage entertainment from Walt Disney, replete with wholesome family values.
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:27
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: A nostalgic charmer, Lady and the Tramp's token sweetness is mighty but the songs and richly colored animation are technically superb and make for a memorable experience.
Runtime: 77 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Based on Ward Greene's short story "Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog," this feature is the romantic adventure of a pedigreed Cocker Spaniel and a freedom-loving mongrel from the wrong side of the tracks.
Starring: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson
Starring: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Bill Baucon, Stan Freberg, Verna Felton, Alan Reed
Director: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Director: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Producer: Walt Disney
Screenwriter: Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi
Composer: Oliver Wallace
Reviews for Lady and the Tramp
Happily the cameo lowlife, an excellent manic beaver, the famously villainous Siamese, and classic songs rescue the film from dumb animal sentiment.
With cracking music, a rollicking pace and dialogue that stands up to scrutiny, Lady and the Tramp really is among Walt's very best.
While it's not one of the strongest Disney animated features, this one has enough strengths to keep it popular decades after its 1955 release.
Visual images on a 70mm screen are bound to be stunning, but it takes a fun and good-natured story to back them up; here, we have a premise that joins two opposites in a sweet love story as adventurous as it is fearsome and daring.
The vintage animation is brilliant, and Disney has done a wonderful job with the transfer to DVD.
Not only is Lady and the Tramp one of Disney's sweetest films, it's one of their loveliest to look at.
They don't make movies like Lady and the Tramp any more. I know that's a cliche, but it's true.
Classic Disney animation, classic story. A wonderful film for childrena and adults as well.
[It made] more money than any other film from the 1950s except The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur.
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