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Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt named Tramp who lives on the streets. Once the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love.

Synopsis

Lady's early days

Lady is a gift from Jim Dear to his wife Darling one Christmas. She quickly becomes the center of their attention . When Lady is six months old, she is given a collar and license and is able to leave the house. She makes friends with two dogs living nearby, Jock and Trusty. A short time afterwards, she becomes friends with another dog — a stray dog called Tramp. (Surprisingly enough, Tramp himself never refers to himself by that name, at least on-screen, but is instead referred to by pretty much two thirds in the film's canine cast (save Jock and Trusty) by the name at one point or another, including Lady, who recognized the name when it was brought up, which indicates that he did at some point tell her he was called the Tramp. It isn't until the second film in which any human calls him Tramp and it is never explained why they 'named' him with the very name he was known by on the streets.)

The Baby and Aunt Sarah

Darling then has a baby and Lady feels that Jim Dear and Darling are not giving her as much attention as before. Soon after the baby is born, Jim Dear and Darling go away for a few days and Aunt Sarah comes to the house to look after the baby. Aunt Sarah has two Siamese cats Si and Am who run wild in the house. Lady manages to keep the goldfish and canary safe from harm. But she begins to bark when the two cats go up the stairs to see the baby. Lady scares Si and Am and they pretend to have been hurt. Aunt Sarah then takes Lady to a pet shop to have her fitted with a muzzle, but Lady runs away while the shopkeeper is trying to fit.

Tramp

Lady comes face to face with a group of vicious dogs on the other side of town, but Tramp arrives on the scene and rescues Lady. Tramp then takes Lady around the town, introducing her to a few of his friends, including a beaver who removes Lady's muzzle. Tramp then takes Lady to Tony's Italian Restaurant, where Tony the cook prepares them a special spaghetti meal. After that, they decide to stay for the night on a hill on a date. The next morning, Lady feels homesick and, while heading back to her home, she and Tramp head for the farm, where he scares away the chickens. During all the ruckus, Lady is captured by the dog catcher and taken to the dog pound, where she does not stay for long. Because she has a name tag, she is soon identified and taken home but Aunt Sarah chains her to a kennel in the garden.

Back home

Jock and Trusty both come to see Lady, but she is not in the mood for visitors. And when Tramp comes, she is angry with him because of the infomation of his many girlfriends and does not want to see him again. However, Tramp does return and Lady tells him that a rat has gone into the baby's room. By now a thunderstorm has moved in. Tramp enters the house and soon comes face to face with the rat. Tramp chases the rat all over the bedroom eventually manages to kill it, but in the process he tips over the baby's cot and Aunt Sarah is awakened by the baby crying.

Race against time

Aunt Sarah calls the dog pound and demands that the dog catcher come to collect Tramp; meanwhile, Lady is locked in the cellar. Just as the dog catcher is collecting Tramp, Jim Dear and Darling return. They then unlock the cellar door and release Lady. Lady begins barking frantically and runs upstairs. Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear and Darling all follow her. They see the dead rat and everyone knows that Lady and Tramp had entered the house to catch the rat. Jock and Trusty are both waiting outside the house and hear about the rat. They decide to go after the dog catcher's wagon and finally sniff its scent, and run towards the wagon while it is just yards away from the dog pound. They confront the horses which are pulling the wagon and it topples over into a tree. Several passers-by are helping the driver and trying to release the horses when a taxi pulls up and Jim Dear and Lady get out. Tramp is released from the wagon, while Trusty is trapped under the wheel. Jock is convinced Trusty is dead and he begins to howl in sadness and despair over the loss.

Christmas

At Christmastime with Tramp long adopted by the Darlings, Lady gives birth to her and Tramp's four puppies, and they are all photographed together with the baby. Just then, Jock and Trusty arrive; it turns out Trusty had actually survived the accident, left only with an injured leg. "Uncle Trusty" then starts telling the puppies about his "Grampappy", "Old Reliable" only to realize he forgot what the quote was, and the film ends as it has begun.

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