
De Vil and her henchmen, Horace and Jasper Badun, get their just desserts. After a suspenseful chase that spotlights even more of Cruella’s mad driving skills, Ms. The Twilight Bark-think of it as a canine phone tree-helps lead Pongo and Perdita to Cruella’s sinister-looking home, Hell Hall, where the daring Dalmatians make their escape. “Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil… If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will.” The introduction of Anita’s schoolmate (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson) inspires Roger to burst into a melodically mischievous song and her quest to make a coat out of Dalmatian puppy fur leads Cruella to show us just how devilish she can be, seizing Pongo and Perdita’s brood along with dozens of other adorable pups. Here are some of Cruella’s most noteworthy Disney appearances: She careened into our consciousness in the 1961 film, and “that devil woman,” as Perdita first described her to Pongo, has given us chills-and thrills-ever since. In fact, One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the first feature to use the Xerox process to transfer the animators’ drawings to cels and this new method must have been immeasurably useful, given the vast number of spots on Lucky, Rolly, Patch, and the other 98 pups.īut there has always been only one Cruella De Vil, One Hundred and One Dalmatians’ wickedly wonderful villain.

And by the time this fan-favorite, madcap animated adventure drew to a close, Roger and Anita Radcliff had become the human guardians of a staggering 101 dogs and were making plans to build their very own “Dalmatian Plantation.” We’d try to report on how many spots appear on screen, but we’re not sure we can count that high.

Then a litter of puppies found Pongo and Perdita heading up a family of 17. When thinking about One Hundred and One Dalmatians, one can’t help but run through the numbers.
