Fresh
Four years of work were invested on this $7.5 million production and the expense, care, and expertise shows.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Rescuers
Two tiny agents vs. the world's wickedest woman in a dazzling animated adventure!
1977 · 1h 18m · G
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
John Lounsbery
,
Wolfgang Reitherman
,
Art Stevens
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The Rescuers
Overview
Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.
Director and cast
- John Lounsbery Director
- Wolfgang Reitherman Director
- Art Stevens Director
- Bob Newhart as Bernard (voice)
- Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca (voice)
- Geraldine Page as Madame Medusa (voice)
- Joe Flynn as Mr. Snoops (voice)
- Jeanette Nolan as Ellie Mae (voice)
- Pat Buttram as Luke (voice)
- Jim Jordan as Orville (voice)
- John McIntire as Rufus (voice)
- Michelle Stacy as Penny (voice)
- Bernard Fox as The Chairman (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Efficiently short, charming, mildly scary in unimportant ways, and occasionally very funny.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The Walt Disney animators returned to top form with this beautifully crafted and wonderfully expressive cartoon feature, the first major work to come out of the Disney studios in a decade.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The people who really need rescuing are the Disney animators and storymen, who seem uncertain whether to keep up the old studio traditions of cute characters and plush settings, or to branch out into contemporary urban satire.
Time Out
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