This scene scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid. The way they show the bat limping his way toward the house giving you no visual of his face. Then they show the door knob rattling and shaking violently. Then BAM right in your face! Then all you see is a silhouette of this... thing! attacking the father while Olivia hides. I remember being terrified after watching this as a kid thinking some type of monster would come and violently shake my door handle and break in. Damn Disney you scary!
I was scared because the way fidget beating hiram is so violent as if he wants to kill him also how didnt hirams glasses fell and broke during the fight
Fidget's pretty obviously a combination of several Sherlock Holmes Canon characters - Johnathan Small and Tonga (both from the Sign of Four), and Colonel Moran (Moriarty's 'enforcer' from "The Empty House")
When I was a kid there was this carneval near town...Thad atere was this horror house called magic caves it had at entry a segment of caves and in one was Johnatan Small and Tonga in chains...
I think this is the scene that made me afraid to look out the window at night as a kid. For the longest time I was afraid that some deformed monster would be staring back at me from the outside...Anyway, I got over it.
***** We hear a loud thud after Flaversham calls "Olivia!", so it's possible Fidget knocked him out and dragged him into the sewers. Either that or Fidget is like you say, a crippled Schwarzenegger.
Edward Nigma Really? I thought that loud thud was coming from when Fidget slammed the door behind him. But then again you could be right. Besides he didn't carry a bag to put Flaversham in as well.
Hiram and Olivia Faversham doesn-t deserve this...Hiram is kind, loving man who brings joy to others...He is an artistic soul...This scene has few levels of brutality and malice...First destroying a toy shop and all those nice toys...Second beating a kind man...Third traumatizing Olivia who is also kind one her birthday...In my life I saw many brutal and sad scenes in cartoons and movies that I spent thinking after and this is the one...
This scene scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. Hadn’t seen it in so long and images from this scene were deep in the recesses of my memory. Thanks for sharing!!
I watched this in the theatre when it first came out. I was ten. When this foreboding scene and its exhilarating music swelled in, it blew my mind. Now, not only do I credit Disney films like these for turning me into a furry, like so many other iconic cartoons, but I'm a furry writer and artist now. *Sigh* Those were the days... RIP: Vincent Price Alan Young Henry Mancini
I absolutely love this movie, but I swear to God I had the hardest time getting past the jump scare when I was younger. Once you got past it, the movie became even more fantastic, but damn that jump scare got me every single time.
Fidget in this scene used to scare the crap outta me in this scene. But this is my Favourite Disney movie, and seeing how I got this on DVD two days ago, I was so excited to watch this again. I love everything about this movie, despite being short. :)
I feel so sorry for Olivia. I mean her father was stolen from her and on her Birthday too! I'm just glad Basil helped them both. As Fidget the bat he is like a gremlin! ❤
Haven't rewatched this movie in more than 15 years (we watched this when we still has VHS's) and now the nostalgia of this has motivated me to wanna watch it again (on DVD this time).
Both the opening scene of “The Great Mouse Detective” and the Mr. Hyde scene from “The Pagemaster” scared the fuck out of me when I was a child during the late 90’s. Both of those scenes still scare me today now I’m an adult. 😱
Brittany C. Both scenes are awesome! I love those two movies. The Great Mouse Detective is my favorite movie from Disney and The Pagemaster is my favorite movie ever
+Matt Lipton having a full on discussion with my boyfriend right now about how traumatizd by the bat jumping out....he decided thats why he must double check that the house is locked. hahaha omg.....
It's been over 20 years since I saw this film. I wasn't expecting this opening to make me cry today... For those that are interested, it's a "hero/rescue" thing. Olivia is alone, scared, and, as we'll soon learn, in mortal danger. All she can do is call into the void for help. Cue title music. Basil's on the case. Cue a 36 year old man bursting into unexpected tears.
Was once staying over at an uncle's house, I was about 15 or 16. Anyway, I'd been pressed into "babysitting" one of the kids, and she was I'd say about 5 or 6. The uncle brings out this movie, and I'm excited as hell because I'd watched it to death when I was a little kid, myself. This scene plays, and he decides it's WAY too scary for a child her age. Wuss. So he puts on Rikki Tikki Tavi instead. Ah well, I liked that one as a kid, too!
+Dividy Bividy (Fividy) I was so fascinated with this scene and I got fascinated with peg legs when I saw the sigh of four made in 1985...I think they came to an idea to make struggle when they saw how Johnatan Small in this movie fights Tadeus Sholto and kills him...Only thing in bood Sigh of four Sholto wasn't handsom and was bald ugly and had problems with heart...And Mary Morstone wasn't in love with him but with Watson...Also Tadeus Sholto wasn't killed nor was Johnata Small evil, Small was a misfortunate man with tragic past...
I love this movie. One of the rare things that I have is a workprint of this movie. It has a lot of unfinished animation and no soundtrack. Definitely makes the movie more gritty if you ask me.
2: 53 Notice two of the directors' names - John Musker and Ron Clements. It was thanks to them that 90s kid like me had classic Disney films like this movie, "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin", and "Hercules". Other films they directed are "Treasure Planet" (very underrated IMO), and two great modern Disney movies, "The Princess and the Frog" and "Moana". In other words, those two guys have done a lot for Disney (and us fans) in the past 30 years!
I don't care what anybody says ......FIDGET IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST SIDEKICK A DISNEY VILLAIN EVER HAD !!!!! He's the perfect blend of scary and comical, and I always found it admirable that he never let his disabilities get in the way of doing the best he could. I always wanted there to be a sequel to this film where Fidget teamed up with Basil and we saw that Fidget wasn't so bad. Disney never made a sequel to this though...I'm so disappointed. FIDGET IS THE COOLEST BAT EVER !!!!🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
How did u get that copy? This is the 1992 reissue since the film begins with the title "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective" as opposed to using the original title.
@@emilyelizabethbuchanan998 The only voices listed in the end credits are "Additional Voice Talents." Alan Young is only credited in the opening credits, and simply as "Flaversham." The first name Hiram is nowhere to be found.
Thank you Disney. Another scene to scare the shits out of me when I was a child.
Killjoy45 why did it scare ya?
Killjoy45 this shit scared me too as a kid
The bat part is what scared me and the fucking intro sounding like gremlins 😑
This scene is so underrated in terms of any Disney film. It's both dark and saddening
The one thing I find really fascinating is that this whole movie is set in total darkness, there is no sunlight ever!
Welcome to London.
@@boturner8328 Sounds like my kinda town.
😂 Very guess that's when mouse and rats play.
I suppose that makes sense, considering rats and mice ... and bats, with regard to Fidget ... are usually nocturnal.
I prefer urban style disney movies without the Renaissance
It's funny that as a kid, Fidget scares me. But as an adult he's friggin' hilarious
This opening scene was the scariest scene of my childhood (but I LOVED this movie). I am totally with you.
Omg same!! 😂
I know, right? Candy Candido really nailed him.
Same though, love this little guy for the same reasons.
I love how this very dark scene is followed by a joyful music!
It's a bit like 'Bambi,' how you go from the somberness of Bambi being led quietly away through the falling snow...and then it's HAPPY SPRING TIME!!
Callahaine They had’a lighten the mood somehow, I bet that scene terrified the shit out of kids
@@TheHurdyGurdyMan. i was one of them terrified kids
The idea is to not only build up excitement for the main hero, but to subtly assure kids to not worry because Basil is on the case.
When I was little, I always wanted that little toy doll that Flaversham made for his daughter
It's so beautiful and it dances so perfectly💖💖
bellamovie2 Same here. I also hated Ratigan for destroying it later on in the film.
Kimberly. Yeah I was like "YOU MONSTER, THAT WAS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT"!!! THE FIEND!!
I was unable to watch this specific part, whilst I was a child. I found it absolutely petrifying.
Chorrell Klaverweide
Chorrell Klaverweide is
Chorrell Klaverweide
Same lol
Ever since i was a kid i thought the bat was like a Gremlin
Good point.
I love gremlins
Same here
the art dragon yeah
Samuel yeah gremlins rock
That entrance never fails to make me jump and I’m almost 20 😂
Fidget stole the toymaker!.
This scene scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid. The way they show the bat limping his way toward the house giving you no visual of his face. Then they show the door knob rattling and shaking violently. Then BAM right in your face! Then all you see is a silhouette of this... thing! attacking the father while Olivia hides. I remember being terrified after watching this as a kid thinking some type of monster would come and violently shake my door handle and break in. Damn Disney you scary!
We all were terrified from this and many other scenes my friend...But than I realized there are many brutal scenes in real life...
I was scared because the way fidget beating hiram is so violent as if he wants to kill him also how didnt hirams glasses fell and broke during the fight
I started to cry when Olivia comes out of her save place and said daddy were are and her daddy gone and she all alone 😢😱😮
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If I ever get my hands on that rascally 🦇. I'll tear him apart.😠
Fidget's pretty obviously a combination of several Sherlock Holmes Canon characters - Johnathan Small and Tonga (both from the Sign of Four), and Colonel Moran (Moriarty's 'enforcer' from "The Empty House")
When I was a kid there was this carneval near town...Thad atere was this horror house called magic caves it had at entry a segment of caves and in one was Johnatan Small and Tonga in chains...
That bat scared me lots as a kid that I would run out of my room at this scene
This scene traumatized me when I was younger I thought it was so sad
Sad? This scene is terrifying.
This scene and many others scenes traumatized me thru my youth and adulthood
I agree with yiu I wasn't scary it was super sad man
Saw this in theaters as a kid. Scared the living shit right out of me.
A cartoon version of "Here's Johnny."
Lucky
RIP Alan Young, your now in Heaven with Barrie Ingham and Vincent Price.
1:34 Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Fidget took Hiram Flaversham!.
We must protect her at all cost she’s so pure
Olivia Flaversham.
The intro music still gives me chills. Once I heard that track started as a kid, I knew I was in for an adventure.
Fidget is a whole lot scarier in the begining here than when he losses the list later on, cause that scene is just drop dead funny
Mouselings are perfectly stylized in urban clothing especially in the 1890s era
1986 film year.
When I was little, I used to be scared of bats. Fidget is the reason why.
"Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread."
The Dark Knight
That kind of situation must be a terrifying experience for a little girl like Oliva, poor baby girl.
We interrupt this Disney movie to give you Gremlins
It's weird how Fidget was so frightening in the beginning but devolved into comic relief as the movie progresses.
He committed suicide by diving, then drowning in the thames!.
I think this is the scene that made me afraid to look out the window at night as a kid. For the longest time I was afraid that some deformed monster would be staring back at me from the outside...Anyway, I got over it.
***** We hear a loud thud after Flaversham calls "Olivia!", so it's possible Fidget knocked him out and dragged him into the sewers. Either that or Fidget is like you say, a crippled Schwarzenegger.
***** Good point.
Edward Nigma Really? I thought that loud thud was coming from when Fidget slammed the door behind him. But then again you could be right. Besides he didn't carry a bag to put Flaversham in as well.
The Smoking Skull
Gustavo Munoz Huh?
Figet's face was definitely not made for close-ups! 8|
Plus, he makes better jump scares than any recent Horror movie.
The bat always scared the shit out of me and yet he was my favourite character lmao
Hiram and Olivia Faversham doesn-t deserve this...Hiram is kind, loving man who brings joy to others...He is an artistic soul...This scene has few levels of brutality and malice...First destroying a toy shop and all those nice toys...Second beating a kind man...Third traumatizing Olivia who is also kind one her birthday...In my life I saw many brutal and sad scenes in cartoons and movies that I spent thinking after and this is the one...
This scene scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. Hadn’t seen it in so long and images from this scene were deep in the recesses of my memory. Thanks for sharing!!
This scene gave me nightmares when I was young
it scared when i was in first grade we watch on our last day
Alan Young. 😅.
I watched this in the theatre when it first came out. I was ten. When this foreboding scene and its exhilarating music swelled in, it blew my mind. Now, not only do I credit Disney films like these for turning me into a furry, like so many other iconic cartoons, but I'm a furry writer and artist now. *Sigh* Those were the days...
RIP:
Vincent Price
Alan Young
Henry Mancini
You are the problem.
1986 film year.
I still want that ballerina toy.
I absolutely love this movie, but I swear to God I had the hardest time getting past the jump scare when I was younger. Once you got past it, the movie became even more fantastic, but damn that jump scare got me every single time.
I loved this movie... LOVE!! this movie so many memories as a kid when I saw this
Fidget in this scene used to scare the crap outta me in this scene.
But this is my Favourite Disney movie, and seeing how I got this on DVD two days ago, I was so excited to watch this again.
I love everything about this movie, despite being short. :)
Funny how the actor Alan Young who voiced the father also voiced Scrooge McDuck. Seriously, you can hear it.
Jackson Draco
Gustavo Munoz Yes?
I feel so sorry for Olivia. I mean her father was stolen from her and on her Birthday too! I'm just glad Basil helped them both. As Fidget the bat he is like a gremlin! ❤
Haven't rewatched this movie in more than 15 years (we watched this when we still has VHS's) and now the nostalgia of this has motivated me to wanna watch it again (on DVD this time).
If you haven't had the chance to see this on DVD, it's currently on Disney+ along with many other classic Disney movies.
The opening scene of the Swamp in The Rescuers is scarier & more heartrenching given the young heroin is a kidnapped Orphan.
Well I wasn't expecting something scary like that.
1:34
The bat reminds me of Mr. Hyde, particularly his depiction in The Pagemaster .
Lrea Renraw
Both the opening scene of “The Great Mouse Detective” and the Mr. Hyde scene from “The Pagemaster” scared the fuck out of me when I was a child during the late 90’s. Both of those scenes still scare me today now I’m an adult. 😱
Brittany C. Both scenes are awesome! I love those two movies. The Great Mouse Detective is my favorite movie from Disney and The Pagemaster is my favorite movie ever
@@brittanyc.4540 that doesn’t scare me anymore I’m brave
@@MrDaniAlbi yeah same here
Anyone else freak out from the bat jumping out?
+Matt Lipton having a full on discussion with my boyfriend right now about how traumatizd by the bat jumping out....he decided thats why he must double check that the house is locked. hahaha omg.....
I loved this movie as a lil' kid! I gotta find my old dvd of it! Nice cut scene!
Qchord
The reason I watched this was to listen to the opening theme song.
Fidget looks like something if Morbius and a female Gremlin had a creepy child 😈😈
Joanna from The Rescuers Down Under is just like fidget. They both hardly start off frightening, but they're comic relief in reality.
When Disney wasn't scared of scaring children.
Since, Jake (The Rescuers Down Under) Love Olivia Mouse.
Jake: Watch Out, Olivia.
Fievel Mousekewitz: There's Fidget.
Fidget the bat always creeped me out and reminds me of a gremlin
1:34 is what SCARED ME as a little kid!
3dkidsartfairs he’s looks scary as gremlin
It's been over 20 years since I saw this film.
I wasn't expecting this opening to make me cry today...
For those that are interested, it's a "hero/rescue" thing. Olivia is alone, scared, and, as we'll soon learn, in mortal danger. All she can do is call into the void for help.
Cue title music. Basil's on the case.
Cue a 36 year old man bursting into unexpected tears.
Was once staying over at an uncle's house, I was about 15 or 16. Anyway, I'd been pressed into "babysitting" one of the kids, and she was I'd say about 5 or 6. The uncle brings out this movie, and I'm excited as hell because I'd watched it to death when I was a little kid, myself.
This scene plays, and he decides it's WAY too scary for a child her age. Wuss. So he puts on Rikki Tikki Tavi instead. Ah well, I liked that one as a kid, too!
Not gonna lie, 1:33, that moment scared the sh*t out of me as a kid.
Holy fuck same!!
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) is between The Black Cauldron (1985) and The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
The black cauldron was lame. Brave little toaster was weird. This was pretty good.
Scrooge McDuck got kidnaped by the Crocodile Captain from Robin Hood!!!😱😱😱
Jafar, Ursula, Frollo or even Maleficent did not scare me that much... but Fidget did!
That is a pretty good quality doll......
If it had not been for The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective, Basil would not bring Cruella De Vil to her jail for good.
1:34
Fidget: Am I late for the Five Nights At Freddy's Animatronic Audition?
Was the Great Mouse Detective in cinema or direct to video? Because Fidget on the big screen would be facinating.
Cinema.
Seeing how this came out in 1986, direct to video wasn't much of a thing until the 90s and was played in movie theaters.
Fidget died
@@gablit-gt8kkActually he survied as seen in sequel comics
Olivia is such a sweetheart. I cried when she yelled 'Daddy, Where are u'
Definitely one of Disney’s most underrated movies I believe
Shadows are used so menacingly in this film. Seriously Disney, how many childhoods did you traumatize with this film?! Still great though ;)
Crichjo32 Mine for example
+Dividy Bividy (Fividy) Me too...I was so fascinated I played this scene with the toys...It was so hard to get kinder toy of a bat...
+Dividy Bividy (Fividy) I was so fascinated with this scene and I got fascinated with peg legs when I saw the sigh of four made in 1985...I think they came to an idea to make struggle when they saw how Johnatan Small in this movie fights Tadeus Sholto and kills him...Only thing in bood Sigh of four Sholto wasn't handsom and was bald ugly and had problems with heart...And Mary Morstone wasn't in love with him but with Watson...Also Tadeus Sholto wasn't killed nor was Johnata Small evil, Small was a misfortunate man with tragic past...
I love this movie. One of the rare things that I have is a workprint of this movie. It has a lot of unfinished animation and no soundtrack. Definitely makes the movie more gritty if you ask me.
How did you manage to get a hold of that?? Wow.
Thumbs up if you came here to listen to that awesome intro music. RIP Henry Mancini!!
Mancini's music is incredible! He should've gotten an Oscar nomination for it.
The music in this film is awesome!
I love the Main Title music that's used a lot in this film and I believe that music is Basil's theme music😊❤️
Wonderful toy. And Vincent Price did a great job voicing the villain.
Man, this just never gets old. Who doesn't like a good prologue followed by the introduction of the movie title?
This scared me so much when i was younger😂
1:35 - "Here's Fidgy!"
RIP Alan Young.
Jake Rutigliano I wish he was still alive
he dead
Poor little darling Olivia. One minute she's so happy and the next she's upset with her father being kidnapped.
Old school Disney knew how to utterly terrify kids
*kid sees the opening* Mommy! I don't like Disney! They gave me nightmares!
Why did this scene freak me out so bad as a child? Lol
I love this movie a lot, but the scene at 1:34 still creeps me out.
Megan Brown THATS is some ugly mug
RIP Alan Young, He's dead Hirams dead.
along with Scrooge McDuck whom he voiced in Duck Tails
I use to have nightmares of this scene
It was the eve of our good queen’s Diamond Jew-
CALLIE: this Scared me.
MARIE: I almost had a Squid-Attack, for Eel.
Oh Please, Disney! They Really Need to be Meeting Guests at the Parks! It will be so Incredible if they do that!
2: 53 Notice two of the directors' names - John Musker and Ron Clements. It was thanks to them that 90s kid like me had classic Disney films like this movie, "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin", and "Hercules". Other films they directed are "Treasure Planet" (very underrated IMO), and two great modern Disney movies, "The Princess and the Frog" and "Moana". In other words, those two guys have done a lot for Disney (and us fans) in the past 30 years!
This scared me so bad when I was little
Jeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeezus, that Bat is scary
Old Man Flaversham is the same voice as Scrooge McDuck in Mickey's Christmas Carol and almost the exact same dialogue for the first few lines!
Don't forget he did Scrooge McDuck in Duck Tails (1987) as well
2:19 help, HEEEEELLLLLLP I can’t get this enormous smile off my face
😂😂😂
RIP Alan Young
voice of Flaversham and Scrooge Mcduck
I don't care what anybody says ......FIDGET IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST SIDEKICK A DISNEY VILLAIN EVER HAD !!!!! He's the perfect blend of scary and comical, and I always found it admirable that he never let his disabilities get in the way of doing the best he could. I always wanted there to be a sequel to this film where Fidget teamed up with Basil and we saw that Fidget wasn't so bad. Disney never made a sequel to this though...I'm so disappointed.
FIDGET IS THE COOLEST BAT EVER !!!!🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
I just wanna grab Fidget by his neck. Squeeze his scrawny little neck until his eyes pop out of his skull.
Just like Ratigan did to little Olivia's birthday present.
Maximus1Decimus actually it was the HEAD that popped off! lol
OH yes! That was in the other scene, my bad. Though it was still cruel. ;/
Captain Barbossa strangle him
Rest in peace alan young.
when i was small i watched this movie and i forgot about it but i dnt knw hw i remembered it back
I think this was the part in my childhood that made me scared of the dark, and looking out the window when its night.
How did u get that copy? This is the 1992 reissue since the film begins with the title "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective" as opposed to using the original title.
TechnoHajikelist Request: Pedro and Edro put nest away.
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The Great Mouse Detevtive with trivia on IMDB showed me about the film takes place with date on 'London, June 19th to 21st, 1897'.
Fidget might be a bumbling cripple but he can be pretty smart and VICIOUS when wants to be.
The way he said Ur ThE BeSt FAtHeR lol
As scary as this scene may be for children, I think it’s just as important to show them the rest of the film where good triumphs over evil.
Conundrum. Can anyone pinpoint the source for Flaversham's first name of Hiram? I'm beginning to think it's fanon.
It's in the end credits of the film
@@emilyelizabethbuchanan998 The only voices listed in the end credits are "Additional Voice Talents." Alan Young is only credited in the opening credits, and simply as "Flaversham." The first name Hiram is nowhere to be found.
Happy 100th Birthday late Alan Young the one and only Scrooge McDuck, on November 19th.
This came out in the same year as An American Tail. I want to see The Great Mouse Detective. 😀❤🐀🐈🐕.
I wonder what it was like without the shadow of Fidget taking Hiram would have looked like we will never know