The Robber Kitten

The Robber Kitten
Directed by	David Hand
Produced by	Walt Disney
Animation by	Bob Wickersham Marvin Woodward Hardie Gramatky Hamilton Luske Bill Roberts
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists Pictures
Running time	7:48
Language	English

The Robber Kitten is a 1935 Silly Symphonies cartoon.

Plot

Ambrose, a kitten, dreams of running away to become a robber. Calling himself "Butch", at the beginning of the cartoon he is seen play–acting a stagecoach robbery, which is interrupted by his mother calling for him to take a bath. Not wanting to take a bath, he decides to run away and become a robber, first stealing a bag of cookies. His first target turns out to be an actual robber: Dirty Bill, a bulldog. Dirty Bill asks Ambrose if he had pulled off any robberies lately, and Ambrose tells him "just this morning I held up a stagecoach." Dirty Bill asks Ambrose where his loot is, so Ambrose shows Dirty Bill the bag of cookies. Imagining the bag to be full of gold, Dirty Bill demands the bag and threatens Ambrose. Scared, Ambrose runs home and jumps in his bath, acting as though nothing happened.

Home video release

1. Walt Disney Treasures: Wave One/Silly Symphonies (DVD), 2001.
2. Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 5: Wind in the Willows (DVD), 2009.

Adaptations

The cartoon short was adapted into a comic strip by Al Taliaferro, ghostwriting as Walt Disney. The strip was titled "The Adventures of Ambrose the Robber Kitten!" and was published on newspapers. It was also translated and published in Austria (1938), Australia, Belgium (1952), Brazil (1979), Finland (1935), France (1935), Germany (2003), United Kingdom (1936), Italy (1935), Spain (1935), Yugoslavia (1936).

External links

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• The Robber Kitten at IMDb
• The Robber Kitten at the Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts