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Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.
Francis De Wolff
- Targu
- (as Francis de Wolff)
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- TriviaPaul Gallico, the author of the movie's source novel, was invited to the set during filming, and quickly came to dislike "the great god Disney". Therefore, he was vastly amused when one of the felines portraying Thomasina held up filming for two days by flatly refusing to perform a stunt for which she had been trained, in spite of Walt Disney's frustrated bellowing. Paul Gallico recalled in his memoirs: "I was proud of that cat!" As with many films with animals, more than one cat was used to portray Thomasina. Disney introduced the film when it aired on television (it's included in the DVD special features), during which he indicated that Paul Gallico was his friend.
- GoofsScenes showing Thomasina will show an orange classic tabby and then an orange tiger tabby in another. These are two different styles of tabby cats.
- Quotes
Andrew McDhui: I thought my opinion as an animal doctor was no good. Somebody called Hughie Stirling has been saying so. Would he be a friend of yours?
Hughie Stirling: He's no friend of mine, sir.
Jamie McNab: Hughie Stirling's a bit of a fool, sir, everyone knows that.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Magical World of Disney: The Three Lives of Thomasina: Part 1 (1965)
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The "Lassie, Come Home" of cat movies.
If you're fond of the little fur-bearing parasites this is a movie you cannot watch without a large hankerchief. It's superior to the current family movies in a number of reasons; lovely color, the realism of a vet's life, delightful Scots Highlands locations, a fine dramatic structure bolstered by that underrated actor Patrick Macgoohan and by a pretty, startlingly black-eyed starlet named Susan Hampshire (the two represent science and faith, respectively, and they come together with an ease you wish these two opponents would share today). But the film is mostly about the tragedy of losing a cat, and the childish, unkillable hope that one day they'll return. The sequence of cat heaven, ruled by the Goddess Bast, is reminiscent of the best of Michael Powell, explicitly referencing Powell's A Matter of Life and Death. The excellent animation is done by the pioneer of the cartoon industry Ub Iweks. A family movie in the day when kids were tougher, it was memorably broadcast on Disney's Wonderful World of Color on TV. I Expect wracking sobs in the scene where a rain- soaked Thomasina comes to the window. Jeez, I'm tearing up right now, just thinking about it.
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- Die drei Leben des Thomasina
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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