The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)

Plot: Fritz the Cat is back, but his glory days of the 1960s are long gone. Now married to a nagging wife and saddled with a screaming baby, he turns to cheap substances to escape his miserable suburban reality. As he slips out of consciousness, Fritz experiences nine wildly surreal alternate lives across time and space—ranging from a futuristic astronaut on Mars to an assistant to Adolf Hitler, an orderly in a chaotic asylum, and a revolutionary caught in political crossfire. This psychedelic, underground animated comedy takes an uninhibited, satirical look at American life, politics, and culture through the eyes of cinema's most infamous feline.

Actors: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Fred Smoot, Sweet Dick Whittington, Luke Walker, Peter Leeds, Louisa Moritz, Larry Moss, Joan Gerber, Jim Johnson, Fred Halliday, Eric Monte, Robert Taylor

Genre: Animation • Comedy • Cult

Studio / Manufacturer: MGM Home Entertainment

Producer: Steve Krantz

Director: Robert Taylor

Behind-the-scenes Crew & Production Side Personnel: Robert Crumb (Original Characters Creator) • Tom Scott (Music Composer) • Gregg Heschong (Layout Supervisor) • Willem de Vogel (Animator) • Evelyn Kennedy (Music Editor) • Samuel Z. Arkoff (Executive Producer)

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