The Robber Kitten

1935
6.4| 0h8m| NR| en
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A kitten runs off to be a robber with a dog.

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Robert Reynolds this is a color cartoon in the Silly Symphonies series produced by Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:As a general rule, Disney shorts were beautifully done, visually arresting shorts. A fair percentage of them were a bit shy on plot and some had rather limited characterizations. This cartoon has pretty much everything-excellent animation, character design and development and a nice, interesting plot.Ambrose is a kitten who fantasizes about being a robber. He's a dead shot with a pop gun. He decides that Ambrose isn't a proper name and christens himself "Butch". When his mom calls him for his bath, he decides to run away, stopping to empty the cookie jar on the way out. Spotted leaving by his none too happy mom, he "gallops" away on a stick pony.Cut to the villain, Dirty Bill, a real robber. "Butch" introduces himself creatively and Dirty Bill laughingly goes along. They sing a rather catchy song and "Butch" embellishes his exploits to the point that Dirty Bill reveals his greedy mean streak. Butch sprints back home to his mom and his bath, somewhat the wiser, at least for the moment.This short is available on the Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies DVD set and it and the set are well worth finding. Most highly recommended.
Shawn Watson A seemingly asexual anthropomorphic kitten called Ambrose dreams of being a highwayman and skips out on bathtime to loiter by the road and hold-up carriages with a fat bulldog called Dirty Bill. They appear to get on at first but when Ambrose pretends to hold-up a carriage and wins a bag of cookies Dirty Bill turns aggressive.It's a lame cartoon, to be honest, and with quite an obvious moral. Of the dozens of Silly Symphonies that were made this one right at the bottom of the pile. Even as a random cartoon without the Disney brand name there's nothing memorable about The Robber Kitten and I can't see any kids being entertained by it in the modern era.
zetes This is one of Disney's best short cartoons. A young cat named Ambrose wants to be a daring outlaw. He renames himself Butch and doesn't want to take baths. "Robbers don't take baths!" he exclaims. He runs off into the forest, where he runs into a real outlaw, Dirty Bill, a bulldog. This is one of Disney's best villains. His song, explaining why he is called Dirty Bill, is just great. 10/10.
Coolguy-7 While I am not normally a fan of the SILLY SYMPHONY series, I like some of them. This one happens to be one of my favorites that I watch often. The title character named Ambrose (Butch as he prefers to be called) is about to receive a bath from his mother. He runs away from home to be a robber. This short appears to take place in the 18th century as Butch wears a Three Musketeers-type costume. When he runs into a bulldog named Dirty Bill (who dresses just like Robin Hood), he points his toy guns at him and says "Your money or your life!" Soon Butch and Bill become friends. Butch tells Bill a fictional story of how he held up a stagecoach and forced the people in it to give him all their valuables. Bill's facial expression turns from friendly to greedy as he orders Butch to bring the bag to him. Butch tells him that they're only cookies. Bill pulls a knife on Butch and it literally scares the pants off of him. The ending was good as Butch runs into his home and voluntarily jumps into the tub. There is a Disney reference to this cartoon. AT the beginning of the short, when Butch is playing with his toys in his room, there is a holdup scene similar to that of the movie TOY STORY. Of course this cartoon was released sixty years before TOY STORY.