Puss in Boots
Cast & Crew
Junior Addario
Robert Skilling Jr.
"wee" Willie Robyn
Oscar Ragland
The Elsa Greenwood Juveniles
Nathaniel Shilkret And His Victor Salon Orchestra
Film Details
Synopsis
A sign at the stage entrance of the Fairyland Theatre boasts that "through these portals pass the most talented children in the world." Inside, as the company of children sing, the actors playing the lead roles introduce themselves and then metamorphose into the characters they will play. As the story begins, the very poor miller's son sits on a bench outside his house disturbed that he will have to send away Puss, his cat, because he does not have enough money for the two of them. Puss pleads with the boy to let him stay, and then, complaining of his sore feet, persuades him to give up his last remaining pennies. Puss returns clad in boots and with a plan to get more money. He scatters grain in a net to attract bunnies, which he then takes to the king hoping to get a reward. At the king's castle, Puss has the bunnies hop, dance and turn somersaults, which delights the king. When Puss says that the bunnies are gifts from his master, the Lord of Carabas, the king implores Puss to invite his master to visit that day. Puss asks the boy to pose as the Lord of Carabas, but the miller's son is upset because he has no fine clothes. Puss, however, tells the king that a robber stole his master's clothes on the way to the castle, and the king commands his men to give the boy fine raiment. After a banquet and entertainment, the king offers to drive the boy back to his castle. Puss instructs the boy to go to the castle of the giant, but arrives there first, as the giant is finishing a meal of chains, cement and nails. Puss questions the giant's abilities, and the giant, showing off, turns into a lion. Puss asks if he can change into a mouse, and the lion does. Puss then corners the mouse and agrees to spare his life if he leaves the castle and stays away. When the boy and the king arrive at the castle, the king, recognizing it as the giant's, accuses the boy of deceiving him and laments that he had been wrong about the boy. Puss then recollects the king's earlier boast that "a king could do no wrong" and suggests that if the king makes the boy a lord, he would not be wrong. The king dubs the boy the Lord of Carabas, saying that earned fruits come to those who are good and kind. The king then tells the boy to thank "Sir Puss in Boots," and the whole gathering sings about the cat, who meows as the boy pets him.
Cast
Junior Addario
Robert Skilling Jr.
"wee" Willie Robyn
Oscar Ragland
The Elsa Greenwood Juveniles
Nathaniel Shilkret And His Victor Salon Orchestra
Crew
John Dolan
Harold Godsoe
Elsa Greenwood
Buddy Harris
Charles Horten
Hazel Mckechnie
Nathaniel Shilkret Orchestra
George Oschmann
Russell Shields
Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret
Robert A. Simon
Robert A. Simon
M. J. Weisfeldt
Frank Zucker
Film Details
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Notes
No contemporary American reviews of this film were located, but a review in the British magazine The Picturegoer when the film was released in Britain at Christmastime 1932. All of the actors were children except for "Wee" Willie Robyn and Oscar Ragland. The film was rereleased in Britin in December 1941, as noted in the BFI's Monthly Film Bulletin.
