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{{For|the 1967 book by Daniel Mannix|The Fox and the Hound (book)}}

{{Infobox movie
| name           = The Fox and the Hound
| image          = The Fox and the Hound.jpg
| caption        = Original theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Ted Berman]]<br />[[Richard Rich (director)|Richard Rich]]<br />[[Art Stevens]]
| producer       = [[Ron W. Miller|Ron Miller]]<br />[[Wolfgang Reitherman]]<br />Art Stevens
| screenplay     = Ted Berman<br />Larry Clemmons
| story          = Larry Clemmons<br />Ted Berman<br />David Michener<br />[[Peter Young]]<br />[[Burny Mattinson]]<br />Steve Hulett<br />Earl Kress<br />Vance Gerry
| based on       = {{based on|''[[The Fox and the Hound (book)|The Fox and the Hound]]''|[[Daniel P. Mannix]]}}
| starring       = [[Mickey Rooney]]<br />[[Kurt Russell]]<br />[[Pearl Bailey]]<br />[[Sandy Duncan]]<br />[[Pat Buttram]]<br />[[Jack Albertson]]<br />[[Jeanette Nolan]]<br />[[Richard Bakalyan|Dick Bakalyan]]<br />[[Paul Winchell]]
| music          = [[Richard Johnson]]<br />Richard Rich<br />[[Jim Stafford]]<br />Jeffrey Patch {{small|(Songs)}}<br />[[Buddy Baker (composer)|Buddy Baker]]
| editing        = James Koford<br />James Melton
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution]]
| released        = {{Movie date|1981|7|10}}
| runtime        = 83 minutes
| country        = United States
| language         = English
| budget         = $12 million<ref name=budget>{{cite journal|title=Forest Friendship|first=David|last=Ansen|journal=[[Newsweek]]|date=July 13, 1981|page=81}}</ref>
| gross          = $63,456,988<ref name=BO>{{cite web|title=The Fox and the Hound (1981)|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=foxandthehound.htm|accessdate=2008-09-20}}</ref>
}}
'''''The Fox and the Hound''''' is a 1981 American [[animation|animated movie]] produced by [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]], first. It was released to [[movie theater]]s in the United States on July 10, 1981. The 24th movie in the [[List of Disney animated movies|Walt Disney Animated Classics]], the movie is about two unlikely friends, a [[red fox]] and a [[hunting dog|hound dog]], who have trouble preserving their [[friendship]] because of their emerging [[instinct]]s.

In the movie, the two [[fictional character|main characters]], Tod and Copper, become such good friends and play together. However, as they grow up, they become enemies because real hounds hunt foxes for food.

Copper's owner, Amos Slade, wants to kill Tod and will do anything to get him. He even has his other dog Chief to help him. As Tod and Copper get older they start to become more of enemies. They face problems with this friendship and Copper even turns on his best friend when Chief, the older dog and guardian of Copper, is nearly killed on a train, and Copper thinks it was Tod.

The story was loosely based on Daniel P Mannix's 1967 book of the [[The Fox and the Hound (book)|1967 book with the same name]]. The book, which had a more realistic story, it dealt with the quest of a hunter and his dog Copper to shoot Tod after he killed the hunter's new dog Chief. The novel was mainly about Tod's life in the woods. While he was raised by humans he was not childhood friends with Copper and none of the animals spoke. The story was changed to make it more suitable for a family movie; instead of a story about the life and death of a fox, it became a parable about how society determines our roles despite our better impulses(contracted; show full)x27; (1989) and ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' (1991), in which he designed the beast. It was also the final Disney movie to have all the credits in the title sequence instead of having end credits and have the words, "The End. A Walt Disney Production" at the end of the movie, the last Disney animated movie to use the Buena Vista logo, and the last Disney movie in which Don Bluth was involved in its production.

The movie stars the voices of [[
Kurt Russell]], [[Mickey Rooney]], Pearl Bailey, Pat Buttram, Sandy Duncan, Richard Bakalyan, Paul Winchell, Jack Albertson, Jeanette Nolan, John Fiedler, John McIntire, Keith Mitchell, and Corey Feldman. A [[direct-to-video]] midquel, ''[[The Fox and the Hound 2]]'', was released on [[DVD]] on December 12, 2006.

== The story ==
The movie begins when a baby fox is orphaned after his mother is killed by hunters. An [[owl]] named Big Mama and her two bird friends, a [[sparrow]] named Dinky and a [[woodpecker]] named Boomer, arrange for him to be adopted by a [[widow]] named Widow Tweed. She names him Tod, since he reminds her of a [[toddler]].

Meanwhile, Tweed's neighbor, a hunter named Amos Slade, brings home a young hound puppy named Copper and introduces him to his hunting dog Chief. Tod and Copper become playmates, and promise to remain "friends forever".

Amos Slade gets angry at Copper for running off to play, and puts a leash on him. While playing with Copper at his home, Tod awakens Chief. Slade and Chief chase him until they are stopped by Tweed.

After an argument, Slade says that he wants to kill Tod and he will do anything to get him. When hunting season comes he takes the dogs and goes on a hunting trip. Meanwhile, Big Mama tells Tod that his friendship with Copper cannot continue, because they are natural enemies, but Tod does not want to believe her.

Months pass, and Tod and Copper are now adults. On the night when Copper returns, Tod comes and asks if they are still friends. Copper says that "those days are over" and "I'm a hunting dog now."

Copper warns Tod that Chief will wake up but Tod says that Chief does not worry him. Chief wakes up anyway and alerts Amos Slade. They chase Tod and Copper finds him. Copper lets Tod go and leads Chief and Slade to go a different way then to Tod, and Tod tries to escape on a railroad track. But Chief finds him and chases Tod, and when a moving train suddenly comes fast, Tod is able to duck under the vehicle, and when the train sails right over Tod, Chief is now struck and wounded when being knocked off the bridge. Copper and Slade blame Tod for Chief's accident and they swear that they will get them if it is the last thing they do.

Tweed knows that Tod is no longer safe with her and leaves him in a game preserve. Big Mama introduces him to a lady fox named Vixey, where things seem perfect, but Amos and Copper trespass into the preserve and hunt the two foxes. But while Slade and Copper are trying to find Tod and Vixey, they accidentally cause an attack from a [[bear]]. Slade trips and gets caught in one of his own traps. He drops his gun out of his reach, and Copper tries to fight the bear, but is soon overwhelmed. Against his better judgement, Tod quickly intervenes to save his friend, and he continues to battle the much larger bear and ends up luring him on to an old fallen trunk of a log, which breaks and sends the two both plummeting down the reserve's waterfall.

The bear is killed, and Tod survives, but he is wounded and nearly dead. As Copper approaches Tod as he lies in the lake below, Slade appears and is ready to fire at Tod, but Copper puts his body in front of Tod, and refuses to move away. Slade finally lowers his gun and leaves with Copper, but not before the two former rivals share one last smile before parting. At home, Tweed nurses Slade back to health while the dogs rest. Copper, before resting, smiles as he remembers the day when he became friends with Tod. On a hill Vixey joins Tod as he looks down on the homes of CopperMickey Rooney]], [[Kurt Russell]], Pearl Bailey, Pat Buttram, Sandy Duncan, Richard Bakalyan, Paul Winchell, Jack Albertson, Jeanette Nolan, John Fiedler, John McIntire, Keith Mitchell, and Corey Feldman. A [[direct-to-video]] midquel, ''[[The Fox and the Hound 2]]'', was released on [[DVD]] on December 12, 2006.

== Story ==
When the mother fox is killed by a hunter, [[owl]] Big Mama, and her two bird friends, [[sparrow]] Dinky and [[woodpecker]] Boomer, arrange for him to be adopted by a [[widow]] named Widow Tweed, who names the male baby fox Tod, after reminding her about a [[toddler]]. Meanwhile, Tweed's neighbor and hunter, Amos Slade brings home a young hound puppy named Copper and introduces him to his hunting dog Chief. Tod and Copper become playmates, and promises to remain "friends forever". Upset at Copper for running off, Slade puts a leash on him. While playing with Copper at his home, Tod awakens Chief who chases him with Slade, but they are stopped by Tweed. After an argument, Slade tells Tweed that he will hunt and kill Tod after months later. That autumn, Slade takes the dogs and goes on a hunting trip. Big Mama tells Tod that he and Copper will become natural enemies after growing up, but Tod refuses to believe.

Months later after their coming-of age and on the night when Copper returns, Tod visits and asks him if they are still friends. However, Copper refuses and replies that he is a hunting dog. As Chief and Amos Slade wake up, they chase Tod, before Copper lets Tod go and leads Chief and Slade to therailroad track, where a moving train hits Chief, who falls into the river unconscious and his leg is severely wounded, and Tod evades the train under the rails. Copper and Slade angrily blame Tod for the accident and vow vengeance.

Tweed sends and leaves Tod in a game preserve, where Big Mama introduces him to a lady fox named Vixey, and the foxes are in love. Later, Slade and Copper trespass into the preserve, where they chase the foxes all the way up to the waterfall, where they are ambushed by a [[bear]], just as Slade feared. Tod rushes and saves the injured Copper, by leading the bear into the bridge of the wooden trunk, which after the bear breaks it and the bear falls down into the waterfall to its death. When the injured Tod survives on the bank of a waterfall-created lake, Copper saves him and prevents Slade from attempting to shoot Tod. Slade lowers his gun and leaves with Copper, who smiles at Tod, before parting. At home while Tweed nurses Slade back to health, Copper happily remembers his past that he befriended Tod, before resting. On a hill, Tod and Vixey watches far away from Slade and Tweed.

== Cast ==
* [[Mickey Rooney]] as Adult Tod
* [[Kurt Russell]] as Adult Copper
* [[Pearl Bailey]] as Big Mama
* [[Jack Albertson]] as Amos Slade
* Sandy Duncan as Vixey
* Jeanette Nolan as Widow Tweed
* Pat Buttram as Chief
* John McIntire as The Badger
* John Fiedler as The Porcupine
* Richard Bakalyan as Dinky
* Paul Winchell as Boomer
* Keith Coogan as Young Tod
* Corey Feldman as Young Copper

== Release ==
''The Fox and the Hound'' was first released to theaters on July 10, 1981. It was re-released to theatersThe movie was released in theaters on July 10, 1981 and on March 25, 1988. Its first home video release, on VHS format, came on March 4, 1994 as the last video of the "Walt Disney Classics" collection (it was not included in the "Masterpiece Collection"). On May 2, 2000, it was released to Region 1 DVD for the first time under the "[[Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection]]". A 25th anniversary special edition DVD, featuring a remastered version of the movie and a disc of extras, was released on October 10, 2006.

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