The Fox and the Hound

Plot synopsis:
After a young red fox is orphaned, Big Mama the owl, Boomer the woodpecker, and Dinky the finch arrange for him to be adopted by a kindly farmer named Widow Tweed. Tweed names him Tod, since he reminds her of a toddler. Meanwhile, her neighbor, a hunter named Amos Slade, brings home a young hound puppy named Copper and introduces him to his hunting dog Chief. Tod and Copper become playmates and vow to remain "friends forever". Slade becomes frustrated with Copper for frequently wandering off to play and puts him on a leash. While playing with Copper at his home, Tod awakens Chief. Slade and Chief chase him until they are confronted by Tweed. After a violent argument, Slade threatens to kill Tod if he trespasses on his farm again. Hunting season comes and Slade takes his dogs into the wilderness for the interim. Meanwhile, Big Mama, Dinky and Boomer attempt to explain to Tod that his friendship with Copper can no longer continue, as they are natural enemies, but Tod naively refuses to believe them, hoping that he and Copper will remain friends forever.
As months pass, Tod and Copper both reach adulthood. Copper has become an experienced hunting dog, while Tod has grown up into a strong handsome fox. On the night of Copper's return, Tod sneaks over to visit him. Copper explains that while he still values Tod as a friend, he is now a hunting dog and things are different. Their conversation awakens Chief, who alerts Slade. In the ensuing chase Copper catches Tod. Copper lets the fox go and diverts Chief and Slade. Tod tries escaping on a railroad track, but is caught and pursued by Chief as a train suddenly passes by them. Tod ducks under the train, but Chief is struck by the train and falls into a river below, breaking his leg. Angered by this, Copper and Slade blame Tod for the accident and vow vengeance. Tweed, realizing that Tod is no longer safe with her, takes him on a drive and leaves him at a game preserve.
Tod's first night alone in the woods proves disastrous, inadvertently entering an irritable badger's den. Thankfully, a friendly porcupine offers Tod shelter. That same night, Slade and Copper plan revenge on Tod. The next morning, Big Mama finds Tod and introduces him to a female fox named Vixey. Wanting to impress her, Tod tries to catch a fish, but fails due to not having survival skills. Vixey and the other animals laugh at him, but Big Mama directs Tod to be himself. The two foxes reconcile and Vixey helps Tod adapt to life in the forest.
Meanwhile, Slade and Copper trespass into the preserve to hunt Tod. As Tod manages to escape Slade's leghold traps, Copper and Slade pursue both foxes. They hide in their burrow while Slade tries trapping them by setting fire to the other end of the burrow. The foxes narrowly escape without getting burned as Slade and Copper chase them up the top of a hill until they reach a waterfall. There, Slade and Copper close in for the kill, but a large bear suddenly emerges and attacks Slade, who then falls and steps into one of his own traps, dropping his gun slightly out of reach. Copper tries fighting the bear but is no match for it. Not willing to let his old friend die, Tod intervenes and fights off the bear until they both fall down the waterfall.
With the bear gone, a bewildered Copper approaches Tod as he lies exhausted near the bank of a waterfall-created lake. When Slade appears, Copper positions himself in front of Tod to prevent Slade from shooting him, refusing to move away. Slade lowers his gun and leaves with Copper. The former friends share one last smile before parting. At home, Tweed nurses Slade back to health while the dogs rest. Copper, before resting, smiles as he remembers the day when he first met Tod. On a hill, Vixey joins Tod as they look down on the homes of Slade and Tweed.

Tags: tragedy, revenge, romantic

Review:
This is one of my favorite animated movies of all time, it's innocent, it's simple, it's lovely, and just a wonderful tale about the most unlikely pair becoming the best of friends.
The Fox and the Hound, yeah, it does go a little overboard on the cuteness factor with baby Tod and baby Copper, but this is when Disney really did mean well and came up with such a sweet and wonderful story that is classic.After a young red fox is orphaned, he is adopted the Widow Tweed, she names him Tod. Meanwhile, Tweed's neighbor, a hunter named Amos Slade, brings home a young hound puppy named Copper and introduces him to his hunting dog Chief.
Copper explains that he is a hunting dog now and things are now going to be different between them.The Fox and the Hound is such a great movie, honestly if you don't like this film, I don't know what's wrong with you, but you need to get something checked because everything about this film is just wonderful.
I feel that this lack of a "everything's okie-dokie again" finish like you see in traditional animated movies gave this story a powerful element.If you're looking for songs your children can sing over and over again, you've come to the wrong movie.
And, well, he is adopted by an elderly widow named Tweed, he develops a friendship with a hunting dog owned by Widow Tweed's crochety neighbor, and he starts to grow up, and life suddenly becomes very difficult, dangerous, and emotionally complicated.I won't give it away, in case you haven't seen it, but for my money this movie has close to the saddest, most desolate, tear-jerking scene in any Disney film I can think of.
My only minor complaint is that there are a couple of comic sidekicks in this movie that are pretty annoying and contribute just about nothing to the story.Coming after 'The Rescuers', 'The Fox and the Hound' might have been the start of a Disney resurrection, but perhaps Bluth's departure really was a body blow.
As it is, 'Fox and the Hound' is a moment of beauty and brilliance in the otherwise pretty murky first 20 or so years after Walt's death.Although it didn't cause much of a stir at the time, it has developed a deserved base of loyal fans in the twenty-three years since it was made.The film tackles themes of conflicting loyalties, friendship, love, identity, and somehow does it with a minimum of schmaltz and a maximum of heart.
According to Rooney's 1991 autobiography, when he was 5 years old he wandered into an office at Warner during breaks between shooting in one of his child-star films, and introduced himself to a bloke who turned out to be Walt Disney, and who was in the process of drawing a new mouse character, who he decided on the spot to name after Mickey.
Several Disney films that are rated above this movie come nowhere near close to it in quality (i.e. Snow White, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, etc...).
Mannix novel of the same name.The film is about the friendship that develops between an orphan fox cub called Tod and a puppy hound named Copper.
Okay, so placing The Fox and the Hound into the same category as The Bicycle Thief may be a stretch, but there is something about this movie that sets it apart from all other Disney animated films.
The Fox and the Hound will go down in history - if it hasn't already-as one of the best movies ever.While their both young, Tod and Copper are friends.
One of my favorite Disney movies of all time.My favorite characters are the adult Tod and Chief.
I watched it with my six year old cousin and she loved it.My favorite part of this movie is the end where the camera zooms out from Copper and Chief.
The simple story about a fox and a dog has many things to teach us about compassion, friendship, and acceptance.It's tough to try to find something bad about this film, maybe one could argue that the animation isn't as good as in later Disney films but I think many would agree that it is much more charming.
THE FOX AND THE HOUND is without a doubt a very charming little film even though the story itself isn't all that original and I think there are a few too many clichéd characters and jokes throughout.
This gorgeous Disney animation is a nice little tale of relationship, but it isn't one of the all time classic films.
THE FOX AND THE HOUND, in my opinion, is a very touching Disney classic about a special friendship for all ages that will warm your heart.
The Fox and the Hound features moments that try to attain the kind of drama of Disney's very earliest work, but by the end comes off as little more than a retread of past Disney films with much weaker animation and less compelling characters, despite some psychological content that might have held potential for more mature storytelling.Structurally, this thing is a straight lift of Bambi.
One day, the next door farmer buys a basset hound puppy, about the same age as Tod. When the two meet, they become the best of friends...I recommend this to all dog lovers, fox lovers, people who like Disneys but also like non- Disney cartoons, children who like a good adventure story and adults who would like to try out a heartwarming Disney classic.
This is one of my all-time favorite cartoons ever since my childhood.It shows us unlikely but really beautiful friendship between little Fox and Puppy who is being trained to become Hunting Hound...Several events take place and they are forced to become enemies and their lives change from its core...They soon have to adjust to extreme changes but eventually learn what is the most important thing...This story is so wonderful, heartwarming and beautifully made that it can't leave anyone indifferent.
The friendship between Todd (a fox) and Copper (a hound).This movie has quite a bit of comedy in it although the movie is a drama with some of the saddest moments in a Disney animation.
It is a fabulous story.This movie is definitely underrated and deserves to be in the top 20 list of Disney's finest animated films - just my opinion.If you enjoyed other Disney animations like "Lady and the Tramp", "The AristoCats", "Dumbo", or "101 Dalmatians" then you might enjoy The Fox and the Hound.10/10.
The story revolves around an orphaned baby fox named Tod and his friendship that he forms with a hound dog named Copper who is owned by a hunter who lives nearby.
The Fox And The Hound sure is the most underrated Disney movie ever.A little fox orphan is found by Widow Tweed, a nice old lady.
They become friends and play together, but Copper's owner, Amos Slade, wants him to become a hunting dog and he hates Tod. Their friendship just isn't meant to be.
The dramatic parts are really dark and sometimes the film is a little bit bittersweet, but it doesn't disturb the movie.While the songs are anonymous comparing to other Disney songs (exept the "Best of Friend" song), is the score quite good; a little bit quirky, bittersweet and country-like.HERE COMES SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED AS A SPOILER: This movie it's similar to "Bambi"; nature settings, animal protagonists who grows up and being hunted of humans, etc (and this film has some scenes who is actually borrowed from "Bambi" if you watch closely enough).This film is at times funny, but I didn't like the constant distractions of the two birds chasing the caterpillar.
Best friends as infants, a hound dog and fox inevitably grow up to be mortal enemies in this popular animated film from Walt Disney Studios.
Sandy Duncan's vocal performance is decent enough, but her vixen character adds nothing to the film and the scenes of the two foxes romancing once another are so far removed from the fox/hound central story that the movie comes to a near stand-still.
Tod and Copper are supposed to hate each other, not as much as I hated suffering through this.There are some lovely forest backdrops and occasional atmosphere in its favor, though this ranks close to the very bottom of Disney's animated movies.
This movie is not characteristically optimistic or positive, and I would warn parents and adults interested in viewing a Disney film to be lifted in spirits that THE FOX AND THE HOUND may not be the best choice.While watching I felt it heavy emotionally and overly sad, without much relief.
Seeing that he needs a motherly figure to take care of him, Tweed adopts this baby fox and names him Tod. Next door, a hunter named Amos Slade (Jack Albertson, aka Grandpa Joe from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971)) has just bought a new hound puppy named Copper for his hunting dog Chief to train.
Will Tod and Copper's relationship stay the same, even when they'll become the biggest enemies when they're all grown up?"The Fox and the Hound" is another one of those films where the filmmakers are mostly efficient in terms of telling the story, and yet one can't shake off a feeling of emptiness after watching it.
Indeed, it proved that the art of animation was still alive and in the hands of new artists who knew exactly how to deliver the goods.The voices are especially well done, as they are in most Disney films, particularly MICKEY ROONEY as Tod, KURT RUSSELL as Copper, PEARL BAILEY as Big Mama and JEANETTE NOLAN as Widow Tweed.The songs are nothing special and that's one area where the film fails to maintain a high level--but the animation is excellent, the color is fine, and the story--while a bit slow paced after a promising start--winds up in a brisk 83 minutes.Summing up: Good but not great..
I would've liked to see them focus more on building the main characters.But despite its flaws, the Fox and the Hound is truly one of the more powerful Disney films.
All in all, the Fox and the Hound may not be one of the best Disney films, but it is certainly not the worse.
Fox and The Hound is a story between a fox and a dog who befriended each other, only to be separated by time and reunited by revenge.This movie is a family-friendly one and it teaches the value of friendship in a way that adults and little children (no not the Kate Winslet movie) alike will appreciate.The movie is an outstanding animated feature that will leave viewers with teary eyes, especially the scene where Todd the Fox and Widow are separated.
The younger Tod and Copper are adorable to watch and are brilliantly animated and voiced, but the film is at a more oppressive side later on as they get older, and to good effect as well when they have to confront a large bear.
Movie Review: "The Fox And The Hound" (1981)In a time when Disney Animated Studio domination on the U.S. domestic market started to fade by restreating, initiative feature director Wolfgang Reitherman (1909-1985) known for animating "Cinederalla" (1950) and then directing the popular animated movie classics "The Jungle Book" (1967) and "Robin Hood" (1973) comes this highly-unlikely story of the title-given two speaking-out animals in an Arkansas-forest-region in a united state of nowhere, when the spectactor must indulge into the struggle of life for finding balance by meeting unlikely friends, battling them, forgive them, learning further lessons to grow-up and then keeping out of trouble before a show-stopping, over-the-edge, grizzly-bear-hunted showdown destructs any hope of former Disney pleasures.Even though this evening-filling, fairly-paced animated feature by an directing trio, including writer Ted Berman (1919-2001), externalized producer Richard Rich and Art Stevens (1915-2007), a former animator for "Peter Pan" (1953) among others in favor of Disney Animation Studios as being lucklily a protegé of at that time still-dominating as co-producing Wolfgang Reitherman, who together could deliver in "Star Wars" -owned summer season of 1977 with entertaining "The Rescuers", but here break off the magic bow from a sacred tree for Walt Disney Pictures in giving-in to melodrama without one song sung by any character, especially due to the unless professional-synchronising actors Kurt Russell and Mickey Rooney (1920-2014), who share a portrayal of a hound, getting drilled to hunt for trails in the woods for food-purposes in order to feat shot-gun swinging not-in-the-slightest sympathical character of Amos Slade, given voice by look-a-like Academy-Award-winning actor Jack Albertson (1907-1981), who eventually dealing with trash-white designed, but decency-spreading neighbor of high-talking too-old single character of Big Mama, cowardly engaged by talented voice-gifted Afro-American entertainer Pearl Bailey (1918-1990).Additional trademarking feature, concerning this controversial animated feature by Walt Disney Animation get neglected as an unspectacular, almost in-audible soundtrack composed by Buddy Baker (1918-2002), who cannot save the major league animations as high-peak effort of the entire animation department with analyzing human as animal behaviour, mimics and gestures in dedicated detail to fulfill a simple-enough story of rivals by nature, when in today'sworld a blue police bunny & red crime-embracing fox is needed - totally recalling "Zootopia" (2016) - to blast international box offices.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend
The Fox and the Hound is an animated Disney movie made in 1981.
I give the move, The Fox and the Hound, this rating because it was personally one of my favorite movies of all time when I was a kid.
The Fox and the Hound is nothing more than another Disney film about animals gallivanting around, having merry old time.
This is just a classic Disney film and I would have to say one of my all time favourite movies.
I suppose I liked it in a different way this time around as it filled me with nostalgia but it still really made me laugh too.Its the usual Disney fare endearing and delightful, but the message here is fantastic, the dog and fox antics hilarious along with the voices of Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell.The story follows the lifelong friendship between a fox cub and a bloodhound puppy who grow up together and then realize their friendship is doomed because Copper is a hunting dog, and Tod is his prey.Hopefully my 3 year old nephew will visit again soon and I can rediscover another childhood classic movie.
This is a wonderful film that is a true classic and a must own for anyone who loves dramas.This movie like the title implies is about two young friends(fox and hound) that when they meet are too young to realize they're supposed to be mortal enemies.the film follows they're story over the course of a year in which the two grow up and realize the friendship that was once so strong between them is forbidden, one is a fox, and the other a bloodhound that hunts foxes.so the dilemma is inherent from the get-go, and at one point the hunter who owns the hound says to the widow who owns the fox that her fox has attacked his chickens and he implies that he'll kill the fox if he ever sees it again.this leaves the widow with only one heartbreaking choice, to let the fox go in an animal preserve(a real tear jerker folks).the hunter hot with rage decides he is not satisfied and intends to find Todd(the fox), and kill him.copper(the hound) and the hunter chase Todd until suddenly a vicious bear appears out of nowhere and attacks the hunter.copper attacks the bear trying to protect his master when the bear turns on him.then its Todd to the rescue as he lures the bear over a cliff to it's death, only Todd falls too.at this point copper having been saved by Todd sees how foolish it was to end they're friendship and rushes to Todd's aid at the bottom of the cliff, the hunter close behind.copper stands over Todd and when the hunter points his gun at Todd he exclaims "get out of the way boy(copper)" ...
I love the way at the end of the movie how Copper thinks back on those good ol' memories that he and Todd had.
This film is not sugarcoated, as many claim Disney movies to be, but an enjoyable examination at the friendship of two unlikely characters.I recently reviewed the Fox and the Hound after a few years, to refresh my memory of the storyline.
"The Fox and the Hound" possesses all the characteristics of what could have been a great Disney film: the realistic animation, a clear and positive message about tolerance through the heartbreaking story of an endearing friendship between a young fox named Todd and a pup named Copper, yet the film didn't garner the same recognition that other Disney classics.
Rarely mentioned among Disney's best films, "The Fox and the Hound" is still the ultimate Disney friendship story, and also, an endearing classic..
The Fox and the Hound is one of my favorite Disney movies, and watching it as a child, I found a lot to love about it.
The movie comes after the truly sad period at Disney during the 1970s--recycled characters AND animation from past films.
The lush backgrounds are reminiscent of BAMBI (and hard-core fans will see two tips of the hat to BAMBI --NOT recycled animation) and I think the characters of Copper, Tod, and Widow Tweed are beautifully animated.The story involves the friendship between a fox cub and a puppy destined to be a hunting dog, and of course, things go to hell, and partially resolve at the end.Some people have commented the level of violence may be too much when these two grow up and face off, but frankly, unless you have a VERY impressionable young kid you really don't have to worry.
Coming from a girl who was your typical Disney-Princess-Wannabe around the time she first watched "The Fox and the Hound", this movie probably won't mean as much to younger kids as it will to those revisiting old classics from their childhood.
Fox and the hound is a beautiful animated film.