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Her Hungarian nationality was derived from that of her voice actress. She is sophisticated and adventurous, and fond of Bernard, choosing him as her co-agent as she sets out to rescue Penny. Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca, the Hungarian representative of the Rescue Aid Society.

He is highly superstitious about the number 13 and dislikes flying (the latter being a personality trait of Newhart).

Bob Newhart as Bernard, Rescue Aid Society's timid janitor, who reluctantly tags along with Miss Bianca on her journey to the Devil's Bayou to rescue Penny.

The meeting is interrupted when Evinrude arrives with a call for help, sending Bernard and Bianca on a new adventure. Snoops escapes on a raft and laughs at her, while the irritated Brutus and Nero turn on her and circle below.īack in New York City, the Rescue Aid Society watch a news report of how Penny found the Devil's Eye, which has been given to the Smithsonian Institution, and how Penny has been adopted. As the riverboat sinks from the fireworks' damage, Medusa crashes and is left clinging to the boat's smoke stacks as Mr. Medusa unsuccessfully pursues them, using Brutus and Nero as water-skis. Meanwhile, Penny and the mice commandeer Medusa's swamp-mobile, a makeshift airboat. The local animals arrive at the riverboat and aid Bernard and Bianca in trapping Brutus and Nero, then set off Mr. When she trips over a cable set as a trap by Bernard and Bianca, Medusa loses the bear and the diamond to Penny, who runs away with them. Medusa betrays Snoops and hides the diamond in Penny's teddy bear while holding the two of them at gunpoint. The three barely manage to retrieve the diamond and escape. As Penny pries the mouth open with a sword, the mice push the gem through it, but soon the oceanic tide rises and floods the cave. The three soon find the Devil's Eye within a pirate skull. Unbeknownst to Medusa, Bianca and Bernard are hiding in Penny's skirt pocket. The following morning, Medusa and Snoops send Penny down into the cave to find the gem. They send Evinrude to alert the local animals, who loathe Medusa, but Evinrude is delayed when he is forced to take shelter from a flock of bats. There, they learn that Medusa plans to force Penny to enter a small hole that leads down into a pirates' cave where the Devil's Eye is located.īernard and Bianca find Penny and devise a plan of escape. With the help of an albatross named Orville and a dragonfly named Evinrude, the mice follow Medusa to the bayou. The mice learn that Medusa and Snoops are currently at the Devil's Bayou with Penny, whom they have indeed kidnapped and placed under the guard of two trained crocodiles, Brutus and Nero. Snoops, are on a quest to find the world's largest diamond, the Devil's Eye. The mice travel to Medusa's pawn shop, where they discover that she and her partner, Mr. He tells them about a sketchy woman named Madame Medusa who once tried to lure Penny into her car and may have succeeded in abducting Penny this time. The two visit Morningside Orphanage, where Penny lived, and meet an old cat named Rufus. The Hungarian representative, Miss Bianca, volunteers to accept the case and chooses Bernard, a stammering janitor, as her co-agent. The Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization inside the United Nations, finds the bottle when it washes up in New York City. In an abandoned riverboat in Devil's Bayou, Louisiana, a young orphan named Penny drops a message in a bottle, containing a plea for help, into the river. Due to the film's success, a sequel titled The Rescuers Down Under was released in 1990, which made this film the first Disney animated film to have a sequel. The film was also successful throughout the world, including France and West Germany. The Rescuers was released on June 22, 1977, to positive critical reception and became a box office success. During the 1970s, the film was revived as a project for the younger animators, but it was taken over by the senior animation staff following the release of Robin Hood (1973). The Rescuers entered development in 1962, but was shelved due to Walt Disney's dislike of the project's political overtones.

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The film is based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, most notably The Rescuers (1959) and Miss Bianca (1962). Two of these mice, jittery janitor Bernard ( Bob Newhart) and his co-agent, the elegant Miss Bianca ( Eva Gabor), set out to rescue Penny (Michelle Stacy), an orphan girl being held prisoner in the Devil's Bayou by treasure huntress Madame Medusa ( Geraldine Page). The 23rd Disney animated feature film, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping abduction victims around the world at large. The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution.

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