I've been trying to find the name of this cartoon movie I saw in the 80's, don't know if it's US made or dutch or other. It starts with a little girl whose father (maybe a sheriff) gets shot dead by outlaws, and his little daughter inherits some important coin from his belongings, then she meets a walking talking short brown-grey cat with a cowboy hat who signs on for her case of revenge. There might also be a fat jolly, suavely dressed bear who at one point fights soldier wolves in the street and humiliates them. I also have a memory of a bandit from the enemy gang messily eating a cream pastry.
Anyone? I liked it because contrary to other lukewarm cartoons from the 80's, it had some scary elements that made it more engaging. The reason I want to find it is because watching movies I saw between the age of 4-7 (and then never again), it gives these really nice flashbacks and memories, Proust-style, which, like fossil fuel, is a finite energy source. I recently rewatched "Under the volcano" and got mindraped because I didn't realize I'd seen just the ending before as a wee boy, not knowing it belonged to that movie. That was unpleasant, but it left some promise for finding other long-lost movies.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
No idea, but whatever it is, sounds like a bit of a blatant 'True Grit' rip off. Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Was it anime? Sounds more like their style- as American animated anything from back them was geared towards young kids.
Was this sci fi as well as...er...crazy? I'm thinking it was Bravestar or possibly Galaxy Rangers (which was quite cool for the time). If it's anime related, there's Saber Rider and the Star Sherriffs.
None of these involve bears or wolves or little girls -though it could have been some flashback episode, I suppose.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I don't think it was sci-fi, it was definitely in period garb and with blackpowder weapons, with merely the suspension of disbelief regarding a talking cat. He was short and stocky, like a grey-black Heathcliff, and I remember the family sitting around a table and the girl giving the coin to the cat-guy, and him biting into it to check authenticity, before taking the job of defending her or something.
It seemed western-made, I would've remembered if the women had looked Minmei-like or Cheetarah-ish. To my knowledge my first ever asian cartoon was Space Battleship Yamato.
It felt related to another animated movie I saw at about age 8, cartoon movie set in maybe the US civil war, or later but with people in the same blue uniforms and kepis. It was pretty light-hearted, lots of people with big noses and slapstick (though I recall seeing many wounded and head-bandages), but in one scene they were attacked by "indians" and one of the wounded got killed by an arrow, was pretty WTF to an 8-year old.
Now that I think about it, both the cowboy-cat movie and this one could've been made in the 70's, but the cat-one was a rental my parents got for us.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
An American Tail: Fievel goes West is the only one I can think of.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
That does sound vaguely familiar... But I have found nothing. Would pouring through these help?
(It was maybe four years ago I had a similar experience trying to track down what eventually turned out to be The Mysterious Cities Of Gold I just remembered several young characters being pursued by Spanish explorers, the protagonists escaping on huge mechanical condor and somewhere in the background there being some mystical apocalyptic overtones.)
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: An American Tail: Fievel goes West is the only one I can think of.
Used to love that movie when I was a kid.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Thanks for the tips, bX. I plowed through both wikilists of animated features but didn't find it, probably was one of the red-linked ones, or lacking description. Pleh.
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