set in paris in the year 1910 and a retired old rich opera singer decide to give her fortune away to her beautiful cat duchess ( voice by eva gabor ) and her kitten and but the jealous butler edgar come up with a plan a he kidnap the cat and leave them in the countryside . luckily for them with the help of a streetwise and independent tomcat name thomas omalley ( voice by phil harris ) help them get home especially meet some of his good friend like the swing scat cat ( voice by scatman crothers ) and try to foil edgar plan . very entertaining and edgy post walt disney death animate movie with a couple of nice jazzy tune like the memorable everybody want to be a cat and good voice act and some terrific animation for it time even in these time of computer animation . not one of the great disney animate movie but a cult disney animate fave and one of the few gem of it day that work well and highly recommend .