She is sophisticated and adventurous, and fond of Bernard, choosing him as her co-agent as she sets out to rescue Penny.
The Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization inside the United Nations, finds the bottle when it washes up in New York City. In an abandoned riverboat in Devil's Bayou, Louisiana, a young orphan named Penny drops a message in a bottle, containing a plea for help, into the river. Due to the film's success, a sequel titled The Rescuers Down Under was released in 1990, which made this film the first Disney animated film to have a sequel. The film was also successful throughout the world, including France and West Germany. The Rescuers was released on June 22, 1977, to positive critical reception and became a box office success. During the 1970s, the film was revived as a project for the younger animators, but it was taken over by the senior animation staff following the release of Robin Hood (1973). The Rescuers entered development in 1962, but was shelved due to Walt Disney's dislike of the project's political overtones.
The film is based on a series of books by Margery Sharp, most notably The Rescuers (1959) and Miss Bianca (1962).
Two of these mice, jittery janitor Bernard ( Bob Newhart) and his co-agent, the elegant Miss Bianca ( Eva Gabor), set out to rescue Penny (Michelle Stacy), an orphan girl being held prisoner in the Devil's Bayou by treasure huntress Madame Medusa ( Geraldine Page). The 23rd Disney animated feature film, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping abduction victims around the world at large.
The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution.