Lady and the Tramp

Plot synopsis:
In a small turn-of-the-century town, a couple designated by the names 'Jim Dear' and 'Darling' are celebrating Christmas. Darling is overjoyed to receive a Cocker Spaniel puppy, whom she names Lady.Time passes, and Lady is well-taken care of by her owners, who delight in her company. At 6 months, she is given a collar with a license. Lady then goes to visit two neighboring dogs, Jacques and Trusty. Jacques is a wily Scottish Terrier, and Trusty is an old Bloodhound. The two compliment Lady on her new license, before Lady rushes off to greet Jim Dear, who has come home from work.Time passes on, and one day, Jacques and Trusty come to visit Lady, and find her feeling depressed. Lady explains that something seems to have happened to Jim Dear and Darling. She then explains how one day after coming home, Jim Dear referred to her as 'that dog.' Another time, she tried to playfully take a ball of yarn from Darling, who then struck Lady. Jacques and Trusty soon explain to Lady, that her owners are expecting a baby. Lady is unsure what a baby is, but the two explain what they know. However, their speech is soon interrupted by a mangy grey dog named Tramp.Tramp then explains that babies are 'homewreckers,' and that Lady can expect to be lectured frequently, and sent to the doghouse in the yard. Jacques angrily orders Tramp to leave, but Tramp just smiles, as if he knows the truth to the whole thing.Time passes, and lady observes all manner of changes, from strange people entering the house, to Jim Dear leaving early in the morning to get something for Darling. Finally, the baby arrives, and Lady feels even more alone, as her owners spend all their time with 'it.' One day, out of curiosity, Lady goes into the new nursery, where Jim Dear and Darling show her the new baby. Lady is intrigued by the little baby boy, and her owners give her some reassuring pats on her head, signs that they still love her as well.Sometime afterward, Jim Dear and Darling take a small trip, and leave their son and Lady in the care of Aunt Sarah. However, Aunt Sarah has no tolerance for dogs, and prefers the company of her Siamese cats, Si and Am. When the cats end up causing a mess, Lady is blamed, and taken to a pet store for a muzzle. The experience frightens Lady, and she runs from the pet store. Unsure what to do, she ends up in a bad part of town, where she is chased by 3 large dogs. At the last moment, Tramp appears, fighting them off. Upon seeing the muzzle on Lady, he offers to help her get it off. After sneaking into the local zoo, they manage to trick a beaver into thinking the muzzle is a 'log-hauler.' The beaver gets the muzzle off, and uses it to help him finish his dam.Tramp then takes Lady to a restaurant named Tony's where the owner (Tony) and his cook Joe prepare a meal for the two dogs. After dinner, the two stroll through the night, and fall asleep at a local park.When they awake, Lady is upset for not going home right away. Tramp tries to 'open her eyes' to life without leashes and fences. However, Lady feels a responsibility to watch over the baby. Tramp takes her home, but along the way, decides to have a little fun by rousing up a henhouse that he sees. When the owner appears with a shotgun, Tramp and Lady make a run for it. Lady doesn't get far, when she's caught by a dogcatcher, and taken to the pound.Once inside, she is ridiculed for her license and cleanliness, before another female dog named Peg gets everyone to stop. Talk then turns to the Tramp, who still hasn't been caught and (to Lady's shock), appears to have known quite a number of female dogs.Eventually, Lady is released to Aunt Sarah, who ties Lady to the dog house out back. Jacques and Trusty come over, hoping to cheer her up, but the mood is spoiled when Tramp appears. Jacques and Trusty leave, and Lady lets her pent-up emotions out on him, from the embarassment of being being in the pound, to hearing about the other women Tramp has been with.Tramp leaves, but Lady's attention is soon drawn to a rat, that she sees enter through an open window in the baby's room. Lady barks, trying to get Aunt Sarah's attention, but the old woman thinks that Lady is just making a racket. Tramp hears Lady, and after she explains what has happened, he enters the house. Making his way to the baby's room, he confronts and fights the rat, finally killing it, just as Lady arrives after freeing herself from her leash.Aunt Sarah finds them in the room, and thinks that they were intending to attack the baby. After locking Tramp in a closet, Aunt Sarah puts Lady in the cellar, before calling the pound.Shortly thereafter, Jim Dear and Darling return, to see Tramp being led away by the dogcatcher, claiming he attempted to attack the baby. Trusty and Jacques hear this and assume the worst as well. However, once Jim Dear looks in the baby's room, he finds the dead rat, and it soon is apparent that Lady and Tramp were trying to protect the baby.Jacques and Trusty rush off to stop the wagon before it reaches the pound. After spooking the wagon's horses, the wagon overturns, but ends up injuring Trusty.Time passes, and soon it is Christmas again. Tramp has been made a member of the family, and he and Lady have puppies of their own. Jacques and Trusty (with a cast on his leg) come to visit them as well, and they celebrate the holidays together.

Tags: dramatic, psychedelic, romantic

Review:
Lady and the Tramp, one of my favourite childhood movies, goes down as a classic animation and one that I am sure is enjoyed by children today.
For 56 years now, "Lady and the Tramp" has won a devoted following based on a love story that could have worked out just as well with live-action and a romance, but here we have it with two dogs - a pampered cocker spaniel and a street-wise mutt.
"Lady and the Tramp" contains the kind of innocence and love story that is unfamiliar with our times today, and it is good to see a masterwork from a bygone era.I was only a kid when I first saw "Lady and the Tramp" but I still remember that famous kiss scene, you know the one where the two leads are having a beautifully romantic spaghetti dinner and they take hold of a single string of pasta and consume it, unknowingly bringing their faces together in an unwitting kiss.
It's remained with me up until now.I'm a sucker for love stories and "Lady and the Tramp" works, despite its animal characters and Walt Disney family-friendly touch.
I got mine at a Best Buy store today to take advantage of this limited release, and to win a free Tramp plush toy.I would guess that time has been good to "Lady and the Tramp," if a love story of this pedigree is truly worth the praise due to it.
On my list of favourite Disney films,Lady and Tramp is at the very top.I just love it.The songs are some of the most enjoyable Disney has ever composed.The film is cute but not in a soppy,drippy way,like say Bambi.Bambi is a classic,but it is too sentimental.I love the song Bella Note.We used to have the video but then chucked it out.After a while,I felt that I had to see it again.So I looked in the library.Would you believe it,they seemed to have every Disney film you could think of except this one,I mean why????????I had to request it from another library and then wait a week for it to arrive(sigh)But it was well worth the wait and I loved seeing it again.Barbra Luddy and Verna Felton who voice characters in this film also voice many other Disney characters.They were both in Sleeping Beauty as well.Sadly they are both dead.Out of 5 stars.Lady and the Tramp deserves 5.It will always be a classic and one everybody will love.Shame about the sequel..
Though Disney gets flack for "unrealistically" portraying romance with their use of the love-at-first-sight trope (because psychological realism is a thing in fairy tales, right?), I would say they made two genuinely romantic films in their animated canon: Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Lady and the Tramp (1955).
These films feature protagonists who fall in love over an extended period and whose opposing personality traits create an interesting "yin and yang" sort of chemistry.Lady and the Tramp (1955) is one of Disney's finest movies of the 1950s.
And if you happen to disagree with that statement, watching "Lady and the Tramp" is the most likely experience to prove you wrong, for there is probably nothing more sincere than the secular relationship between man and his best friend: dog.But "Lady and the Tramp" is definitely not a human-centered movie; it mostly focuses on the relationships within the dog's world, starting with the iconic romance between Lady, the sweet and timid Cocker spaniel and the Tramp, the free-spirited and happy-go-lucky stray mutt.
Still, the only reason we don't end up believing that animals behave like humans is because humans remain present nonetheless, and dogs are either depicted as helpers or victims of humans.The story opens with Lady, a cute little puppy offered as a Christmas gift to 'Darling' by her husband Jim 'Dear'.
The film starts by showing Lady acting like a real dog through the irresistible silent sequence where she tries to get herself in her masters' bed, pushing the door, howling in despair, before finally triumphing over the stairs, and getting in the bed for just 'one' night, which the subsequent ellipse cleverly contradicts.Lady is then 1-year old, she got a new expensive collar she proudly shows to her two neighbors and friends, Jock, a Scottish terrier with a fitting accent, and Trusty, an old bloodhound, who lost his sense of smell.
Sadly, the second misunderstanding causes the annoying Aunt Sarah to believe that Lady, who just clashed with her trouble-making Siamese cats, is a threat for the baby, and buy her a muzzle.It's a sad thing that only a human with a capability to love dogs can understand the meaning of a dog's bark.
And this love, whether for human, babies or dogs, originates one of the most romantic, if not the most, love story in Disney's or Cinema's history, reaching a paroxysm during the iconic Spaghetti-scene.
This scene is probably one of Disney's greatest moments and magnificently sums up the film's, not that dogs can behave like humans, but that they can reveal the best of our own humanity."Lady and the Tramp" is one of the most endearing Disney classics, hitting a sensitive in any human heart, a film that would inspire to any child the urge to have a dog, and to share with him this genuine complicity.
Well, LADY AND THE TRAMP is the ideal movie for puppy lovers, and dog lovers, alike.Without any doubt in my mind, this film is definitely one of Disney Studios' most endearing animated features of all.
Its story concerns a rakish mongrel named Tramp who heroically helps out a pedigreed canine named Lady who has found herself in a mighty tight jam - And, as these things so often happen, Tramp gallantly dances Lady right into a sweet, little romance that's well-worth barking about.Throughout the delightful course of LADY AND THE TRAMP, elements of high-adventure and drama are quite masterfully blended together with the sheer joy and amusement of comedy and music.LADY AND THE TRAMP would be Disney Studios' 15th animated feature film and the first to be produced with the dazzling effects of wide-screen Cinema-Scope..
During the early 1950s Disney was making some excellent animated features with 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Peter Pan', Lady and the Tramp followed those films and proved to be another good film from the studio.
I also think that having these things from the dogs perspective is very smart, like the fact Lady thinks her owners are 'Jim Dear' and 'Darling as that's what they call each other or her confusion at how worked up Jim is getting over the birth of the baby.
The song 'Bella Notte' in particular is very pleasant, and of course the image of Lady and Tramp eating the Spaghetti accompanying it is now seen as iconic.I think that the films biggest weakness is the fact that it lacks anything that memorable.
I think that the film can come off as a series of moments due to the way it is told and though most of it is interesting, it isn't as gripping as say the moments in 'Alice in Wonderland' so it's more liable to become a little dull in some areas.On the whole I'd say Lady and the Tramp is another entertaining film from Disney.
There have been plenty of Dog films made in the history of movies but there is only one that truly captures what it's like between the pampered and stray collarless life of man's best friend.
Of course, during the middle of the 20th century, Disney had already a well established reputation of making wonderfully animated feature family films so it's obvious that the mouse house would tackle a story dealing with the pets we have loved and cared about for centuries.The story follows lady, a dog who is given as a Christmas gift between a couple.
This is a beautifully made 15th full-length animated feature film from Walt Disney - a tale about a cocker spaniel named Lady from an upscale neighborhood that meets a stray dog (dubbed the Tramp in the movie).
He takes Lady out to see the world and they both fell in love in the process.It's a movie filled with adventure and romance - a film for all ages and definitely has that special Disney touch.
Lady and the Tramp is the most romantic Disney movie with dogs, the story of the street wise Tramp and the cocky Lady living an adventure that lead them through the city from the rich neighborhood too the famous "Bella Notte" alley.
Is, to me, one of the most romantic Disney features ever made.I'm still wondering what ever happened with the plans for Lady and the Tramp 2.I recommend the movie for kids but also couples looking for a romantic video/DVD to spend the evening on the couch cuddled up..
It could also explain a feeling that others have reported on seeing "Lady and the Tramp", that the backgrounds, however much detail there may be, look bare and empty - because this is a world in which REAL tramps are herded off the street, where nothing is left lying around for so much as an instant, and where everything is new.Despite this it's a good-looking movie, with well-drawn dogs.
It's a vibrant film, although somewhat non-traditional for Disney, full of lovable characters that are beautifully framed and extraordinarily animated.Lady and Tramp are almost like Romeo and Juliet, without quite as much drama.
Supporting characters such as Lady's friends Jaques and Trusty help to bring on emotional moments, but the true meat and bones of the story are between the two leads and the lives they lead.The design of this film is impeccable, capturing the architecture and styling so well of the early 1900s.
And of course, the most memorable romantic moment in Disney animation happens here when Lady and Tramp share a lovely Bella Notte.Although not a musical in the usual sense that Disney is known for, there is a small selection of songs that pop-up throughout the film.
The Siamese Cat Song, despite its brief display of the stereotyping that occurred during the time, is also a fun character driven moment that introduces us to what could be considered the film's villains, if the villain isn't just life itself.Lady and the Tramp is, in fact, the rare Disney gem that doesn't have a pure, clear-cut villain that continuously steals the show and motivates the plot.
I only had the pleasure of watching many of the famous Disney classics for the first time last December and while I enjoyed almost all of them, Lady and the Tramp was one I absolutely fell in love with.
Both Lady and Tramp are believable characters but display subtle dog traits which I didn't even notice the first time I watched the film.
Lady And The Tramp is an absolute heart melting charmer If I ever saw one and my personal favourite animated Disney film from Walt's era..
She meets up with a dog named the Tramp, who after helping get a muzzle off, takes Lady out for a night on the town.I refuse to believe that the Rat was the main villain of this movie, no, it's Aunt Sarah, her and her stupid cats.
Lady and the Tramp is one Great Classic By Disney with one of the best Romantic stories.
However, on its own, the 76-minute movie contains a great deal of charm that is hard to resist even if you are not a pre-schooler.Set in the Midwest in the turn of the last century, the story unwraps slowly and focuses squarely on Lady, a young couple's pampered cocker spaniel who later feels usurped by a new baby.
What is left is a sweet, soft-centered love story with a comic gallery of supporting dogs and a smattering of songs by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, the two most memorable being Peg's saucy 4-1-1 to Lady, "He's a Tramp", and "The Siamese Cat Song" performed with a seething, politically incorrect WWII propaganda-style hiss.
Although you will find a small amount of action near the end of the film this is definitely a story about the love that Lady and the Tramp share.
Throw in some humor, great music, a touch of drama, and a simple, heartfelt plot, and this film really stands out among some of its contemporary Disney fare.In short, show this movie to a child in your life and watch them light up.
Walt Disney's animated tale of a budding, star-crossed romance between two dogs: one, a pampered golden cocker spaniel named Lady, loved by her family but recently neglected by the arrival of a new baby, and a street-wise but kind-hearted mutt named Tramp who manages to survive on the streets with the kindness(and food!) from strangers.
One day, they happen to meet, and there is an attraction, but between dog catchers pursuing Tramp to put him in the pound, and two Siamese cats up to no good in Lady's home, prove a challenge to their freedom.
I saw it as a kid with my grandpa and by then it's one of my favorite films.Bella note the romantic song,the fight between the tramp and the dogs chasing lady and the happy finale,a classic tale that musn't be missing from any house..
And outside she meets other dogs, including the charming mutt named Tramp.Through all this a mean aunt with two Siamese cats comes to sit for the new baby when the parents go out of town for a few days.
Sweet little movie.The story of a domestic dog, Lady, who befriends a stray, Tramp.
And that's why doggie love is a 10/10What I like about this movie is that there is rarely a villain blocking their way, but there are obstacles instead (the dog catcher, Siamese cats, the rat and aunt Sarah).
Honestly, I'd have liked Disney to get more daring with this and actually show some real destitution among the dogs, but I guess this isn't supposed to be *beep* Watership Down (though I have to give major props to the Disney crew for sneaking in implications of Tramp having been a bit of a womanizer...er...bitchizer...I'm writing that word down for future use).Another thing that makes this the finest Disney movie in years is in how it reincorporates the practice of the early films in getting across moments bound to frighten any and all children.
Mr. Walt Disney's full length animated feature films have come to be declared to be "a Classic" by the time of their re-release.
Though the recent features that have come from Disney have been turned over to CGI experts and the work that goes into these animated films are a feat in itself, many of them still lack the simple ingredient of charm and beauty that Lady and the Tramp has.
Lady and Tramp is a testimonial for good, fun entertainment that can come from a talented group of artists, animators, voice actors and script writers, in the what would now be called the - "old way."If these kinds of kids movies are indeed a "time piece" and now considered a "thing of the past" then its sad that the film industry has lost sight of what's good entertainment for kids.
Disney goes into CinemaScope(TM) here in 1955 with this great family animated film "Lady and the Tramp," best known for the scene where the two pups eat spaghetti together!
I love it, my mother loves it, every family loves a good film like this!!!!!"Lady and the Tramp" is also in a new 2-disc DVD set, where not only can you see this in CinemaScope(TM), but play games, learn more about this movie, and a whole lot more!!!!!
There are two things about Lady and the Tramp which I remembered before I watched again here in my early 20's: the famous spaghetti scene which is one of the sweetest romantic scenes ever portrayed in an animated movie.
After AfterbAfter all, what else does a little girl need?Lady and the tramp, like all of Walt Disney's films, has laughter, drama, pathos, tears, and, perhaps most importantly, a happy ending.
i personally feel Disney's 'Lady and the Tramp' is one of cinema's very best and most memorable love stories.
it's pretty much the standard image represented in most articles or pieces concerning film and romance.'Lady and the Tramp' is also one of the best told of cinema's love stories and one of classic Disney's best scripted animated features.
4th of of 8 in the Silver Era. Over two years after the release of the hit Peter Pan, they went back to cuddly dogs with Lady and the Tramp.The story of this 1955 movie is not as action-packed as its previous films.
Overall, Lady and the Tramp might seem like nothing more than a basic love story, but the things that are good are done so incredibly well that it makes for a timeless classic..
When she gets back home Lady sees a rat entering the baby's room and Tramp rushes into help; this could be the end of him though as Auntie things he is attacking the baby and calls the pound; if he is to survive Lady's friends will have to help him out.This Disney classic might not be up there with the likes of 'Snow White' or 'Dumbo' but it is a delightful film with a story that can be enjoyed by all ages.
That is the case with "Lady and the Tramp"; my first Disney animated film to review.
Lady is a beautiful well mannered dog, and Tramp is a lovable scruffy mongrel, the other characters are likable as well, the animation to create is superb, especially when you consider that this is one of the rare occasions that Disney creates an original story not based on a fairytale or book, like Dumbo and Bambi before.
There's no such thing as a great film with a terrible ending.This is the reason why "Lady and the Tramp" remains to me one of the worst films ever to ever some out of the Disney animation studios and be considered a "classic".