The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
September 18, 1974Release Date
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
September 18, 1974Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Skip Hinnant
Fritz
Reva Rose
Fritz' Old Lady
Bob Holt
Various Voices
Robert Ridgely
Fred Smoot
Dick Whittington
Peter Leeds
Juan / Various Characters
Louisa Moritz
Chita (Juan's Sister)
Larry Moss
Joan Gerber
Han's Wife
Jay Lawrence
Tom Scott
Composer
Sarina C. Grant
The Roach
Robert Taylor
Director / Writer / Character Designer
Milton Gray
Animation
Mike Baez
Animation
Art Vitello
Animation
Robert Crumb
Comic Book
Tom Scott
Original Music Composer / Music Arranger
Marshall M. Borden
Editor
Bill Orcutt
Production Supervisor
Steve Krantz
Producer
Gregg Heschong
Director of Photography
Ted C. Bemiller
Director of Photography
Eric Monte
Writer
Fred Halliday
Writer
John Bruno
Animation
Nelson Shin
Animation
Ashley Shurl Lupin
Special Effects
Bob Tyler
Animation
Richard Trueblood
Animation
Bob Bemiller
Animation
James D. Young
Music Editor
Bernice Bissett
Special Effects
Peter Alvarado
Layout
Don Williams
Animation
Paul Sommer
Animation
Dean Thompson
Animation
Sonja Ruta
Animation
Curly Thirlwell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Richard Portman
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Cosmo Anzilotti
Animation
Bob Bachman
Animation
Bobbie Shapiro
Assistant Editor
Bob Bransford
Animation
Jack Hooper
Negative Cutter
Martin Taras
Animation
Don MacDougall
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank Andrina
Animation
Al Budnick
Background Designer
Greg Nocon
Animation
Martin Strudler
Layout
Stanley Adams
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Carole Androsky
Ralph James
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Release DateSeptember 18, 1974
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 17m
Content RatingR
Budget$3,500,000
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is a 1974 American adult animated anthology black comedy film directed by Robert Taylor as a sequel to Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat (1972), adapted from the comic strip by Robert Crumb, neither of whom had any involvement in the making of the film. The only two people involved in the first film to work on the sequel were voice actor Skip Hinnant, and producer Steve Krantz. The film's music score was composed by jazz musician Tom Scott, and performed by Scott and his band The L.A. Express.
Like the first film, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat focuses on Fritz (voiced by Hinnant), a fraudulent womanizer and leftist, who is shown in this film to have married an ill-tempered woman named Gabrielle, with whom he shares an apartment room with their infant son. Unlike the first film, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat adopts a non-linear narrative and is presented as an anthology of loosely connected short stories, connected as cannabis-induced fantasies which occur as she berates Fritz. The stories depict him as a Nazi stormtrooper, a rich playboy, an astronaut heading to Mars, and in an alternate reality in which New Jersey has seceded from the United States as an entirely African American state, China and Russia. Except for the wraparound segment, none of the film's storylines are based on Robert Crumb's comics, and he was not credited on this film.
The film was written by Taylor, in collaboration with Fred Halliday and Eric Monte. The voice cast also featured Bob Holt, Peter Leeds, Louisa Moritz, Robert Ridgely, Joan Gerber, Jay Lawrence, Stanley Adams, Pat Harrington Jr., Peter Hobbs, Ralph James, Eric Monte, Glynn Turman, Gloria Jones, Renny Roker, John Hancock, Chris Graham and Felton Perry.
In contrast to the first film receiving an X rating, the sequel got an R rating, being the first American animated film to do so, and cementing the Fritz films as the holders of the first animated films to receive both ratings.