101 Dalmatians Live-Action (1996)

**101 Dalmatians Live-Action (1996)** is a UK VHS release by Disney Videos on 18th August 1997 and is a UK DVD release by Disney Videos on 12th March 2001. It got re-released on UK DVD by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on 5th November 2001.

The film also aired on BBC One on Boxing Day 2000.

## Plot

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American video game designer Roger Dearly lives with his pet Dalmatian Pongo in London. One day, Pongo sets his eyes on a female Dalmatian named Perdita (Perdy). After a frantic chase through the streets of London that ends in St. James's Park, Roger discovers that Pongo likes Perdy. Her owner, Anita Campbell-Green falls in love with Roger when they meet. They both fall into the lake as a result of their dogs chasing each other, but they return to Roger's home and Anita accepts his proposal. They get married along with Perdy and Pongo. Anita works as a fashion designer at the House of de Vil. Her boss, the pampered and very glamorous Cruella de Vil, has a deep passion for fur, going so far as to have a taxidermist, Mr. Skinner, skin a female white tiger named Sue-Ling at the London Zoo to make her into a rug for her. Anita, inspired by her Dalmatian, designs a coat made with spotted fur. Cruella is intrigued by the idea of making garments out of actual Dalmatians, and finds it amusing that it would seem as if she was wearing Anita's dog.

Anita soon discovers that Perdy is pregnant and is then informed that she (Anita) is too, much to her shock. Sometime later, Cruella visits their home and expresses contempt upon meeting Roger. Her initial disgust at them having a baby turns to excitement when she finds out Perdy is expecting too. Several weeks later, she returns when a litter of 15 puppies are born and offers Roger and Anita £7,500 for them, but they refuse. Enraged, Cruella dismisses Anita and vows revenge against her and Roger. One winter evening, she has her henchmen, Jasper and Horace, break into their home and steal the puppies, while Roger and Anita are walking in the park with Pongo and Perdy. Along with 84 other Dalmatians that were previously stolen, they deliver them to her ancient country estate, De Vil Mansion. Cruella also asks Skinner to kill and skin them to create her coat.

With the family devastated at the loss of their puppies, Pongo uses the twilight bark to carry the message via the dogs and other animals of Great Britain, while Roger and Anita notify the Metropolitan Police. Anita uses her insight and realizes Cruella was behind the kidnapping of the puppies. She confirms her suspicion when she shows Roger her portfolio. An Airedale Terrier named Kipper who had witnessed the stolen puppies follows Jasper and Horace to the mansion, and finds all of them inside, before helping them escape under the duo's noses. They make their way to a nearby farm, where they are later joined by Pongo and Perdy. Cruella arrives at the mansion and soon discovers what has happened. Angry with the thieves' failure, she decides to carry out the job herself, while Jasper and Horace attempt to search for them also. After several mishaps, Jasper and Horace discover nearby police on the hunt for Cruella and her henchmen and hand themselves in, joining Skinner who was beaten earlier while trying to kill Lucky (one of the 15 puppies), who had been left behind. Meanwhile, Cruella tracks the puppies to the farm where they are hiding and tries to retrieve them. However, the animals outwit her, causing her to fall into a vat of molasses and get thrown through a window into a pigpen. Shortly afterwards, the fleeing dalmatians (including Lucky) are found and sent home via the Suffolk Constabulary, while the cops were looking for Cruella at the farm, where they finally arrest her. In the police van, she berates Jasper, Horace, and Skinner for their incompetence before they are all sprayed by a skunk which she had mistaken for her purse. Pongo, Perdy and their puppies are reunited with Roger and Anita.

After being informed that the remaining 84 puppies have no home to go to, as they have not yet been claimed by their original owners, they decide to adopt them, bringing the total to 101. Roger designs a successful video game featuring dalmatian puppies as the protagonists and Cruella as the villain and they move to the countryside with their millions. Roger and Anita have a baby daughter, and a year later the puppies and farm and pet and and zoo animals have grown up with puppies of their own.

## Description

Opening to packed theaters and rave reviews worldwide, Disney's live-action smash hit 101 DALMATIANS brings the floppy-eared fun and fiendish exploits of the world's most vampy villainess home to your family! In a perfectly wicked performance, Glenn Close stars as Cruella De Vil, the fur-loving fashion maven who's obsessed with obtaining Dalmatian pelts for her new line. Cruella's fashion designer Anita and her husband Roger are delighted when their Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita become proud parents of a litter of adorable puppies. But after Cruella conspires with her two bumbling henchmen to kidnap the pup, the fur begins to fly, building to one of the greatest comic rescue adventure stories ever told!

## Cast

* Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil
* Jeff Daniels as Roger Dearly
* Joely Richardson as Anita Dearly
* Joan Plowright as Nanny
* Hugh Laurie as Jasper
* Mark Williams as Horace
* John Shrapnel as Mr. Skinner
* Tim McInnerny as Alonzo
* Hugh Fraser as Frederick
* Zohren Weiss as Herbert
* Mark Haddigan as Alan

## Credits

Associate Producer

Rebekah Rudd

Production Supervisor

John Comfort

Unit Production Manager

Callum McDougall

First Assistant Director

David Tringham

Second Assistant Director

Adam Somner

## Opening (Original 1997 Release)

1. Blue Warning Screen
2. European Captioning Institute Warning Screen (1995-2005)
3. Disney Video Piracy Warning [announced by John Sachs and boy]
4. Disney Videos (still) (1995-2001)
5. Coming Soon To A Cinema Near You (Orange Background) (1996-1998) [announced by John Sachs]
6. Hercules (1997) trailer (Short Version with UK Pitched) [announced by Mark Elliott]
7. Coming Soon from Disney Videos [announced by John Sachs]
8. Oliver and Company trailer (Short Version) [announced by John Sachs]
9. Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure trailer [announced by Ringo Starr]
10. Cinderella trailer [announced by John Sachs] (UK Pitched)
11. The Black Cauldron trailer [announced by Rupert Farley]
12. Peter Pan trailer [announced by John Sachs]
13. Sesame Street trailer [announced by Enn Reitel]
14. Walt Disney Pictures logo (1985-2006)
15. Great Oaks logo (1996-1997)
16. Start of 101 Dalmatians Live-Action (1996)

## Closing (Original 1997 Release)

1. End of 101 Dalmatians Live-Action (1996)
2. Closing Credits Film
3. Walt Disney Pictures logo (1985-2006) (101 Dalmatians Live-Action Variant)

## Trailers and info (VHS)

1. Disney Videos Piracy Warning (announced by John Sachs and boy)
2. Hercules (Short with UK pitch) (Coming ~~MCMXCVII~~ 1997) (Coming Soon to a Cinema Near You)
3. Oliver and Company (Short Version) (Coming Soon on Video + Available Soon on Video) (announced by John Sachs)
4. Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure (Coming Soon to Video) (announced by Ringo Starr)
5. Cinderella (Coming Soon on Video) (announced by John Sachs)
6. The Black Cauldron (Coming Soon on Video) (announced by Rupert Farley)
7. Peter Pan (Coming Soon on Video) (announced by John Sachs)
8. Sesame Street (Short) (Coming Soon on Video) (announced by Enn Reitel)

## Trailers and info (DVD)

1. Dinosaur
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Coming to Disney DVD and Video Fall 2001)
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (Premiering Only on Video and Disney DVD. 2001)
4. 102 Dalmatians (Available on Video and Disney DVD) (announced by American Voice Actor Voiceover Announcer Brian Cummings)