Like most bad cats, “D.C.” comes home with other people's ducks, sneaks into kitchens, knocks over dishes, and wreaks havoc at local businesses — but our hero (immortalized in song by Bobby Darin) also finds time to catch kidnappers. Hired as an informant for the FBI after bringing home a piece of evidence, D.C. is trailed by agent Zeke Kelso (Dean Jones) with the help of Hayley Mills, hoping to recover a missing bank teller and a suitcase full of cash. Disney's funniest and most leisurely-paced live-action romp was directed with total conviction by Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins, Old Yeller) and rings true for any of us who've had to answer for an only partially domesticated pet. The terrific ensemble cast includes William Demarest and Elsa Lanchester as nosy neighbors, Tom Lowell as the surfing-crazed boyfriend, Roddy McDowall as the duck hunter, and Dorothy Provine as the older sister who thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. She's right! (Julian Antos, Chicago Film Society)