Lady and the Tramp

After an upper-class princess (Lady) has a run-in with two devious cats (“We are Siamese if you please”), she and her working-class sweetheart (Tramp) embark on a memorable adventure around town that includes an accidental kiss over a plate of spaghetti. Despite a few relationship missteps, Tramp eventually disavows his streetwise ways, and the two reunite and have a family. It’s really the template for the modern romantic comedy, before they felt compelled to always include an annoying best friend.
Old Yeller

This 1860s-era drama starring a mutt and his two young masters takes a dark turn when Old Yeller is bitten by a rabid wolf, goes mad and starts foaming at the mouth. The tear jerker’s defining moment happens when the main character, a boy named Travis, is forced to shoot Old Yeller to protect his family. Travis becomes a man, men in the audience become weeping boys, and Old Yeller is written into film history as the ultimate canine tragic ending.

























