About The Great Mouse Detective
In London circa 1897, a young Scottish mouse named Olivia Flaversham (Susanne Pollatschek) is celebrating her birthday with her toymaker father, Hiram (Alan Young). Suddenly, Fidget (Candy Candido), a crippled bat with a peg leg kidnaps Hiram. Fidget takes Hiram to Professor Ratigan (Vincent Price) to which he commands him to create a clockwork robot which mimics the Queen of the Mice so Ratigan can rule England. Hiram refuses to take part in the scheme, whereupon Ratigan orders Fidget to capture Olivia so he can feed her to his pet cat, Felicia.
Olivia searches to find Basil of Baker Street (Barrie Ingham), a world-famous detective and Ratigan's archnemesis. Returning to London after a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Dr. David Q. Dawson (Val Bettin) stumbles upon Olivia, and helps her find Basil's residence. At first, Basil is reluctant, but when Olivia mentions Fidget, Basil realizes his chance to capture Ratigan. Basil and Dawson takes Toby, Sherlock Holmes's pet, to track Fidget's scent to where he finds him in the toyshop where he is stealing clockwork mechanisms and toy soldiers' uniforms. Fidget later traps Olivia by ambushing her from inside a toy cradle. Basil and Dawson pursue Fidget, but becomes entangled and falls behind. While searching the shop, Dawson discovers Fidget's checklist to which Basil does some chemical tests to discover the list came from the riverfront near the Thames. Basil and Dawson disguise themselves as sailors and go into the tavern and follows Fidget to Ratigan's headquarters. But, they are caught and Ratigan ties them to a spring-loaded mousetrap, connected with a Rube Goldberg machine. Ratigan sets out for Buckingham Palace to where Fidget and his accomplices kidnap the queen. Basil along with Dawson deduces the trap's weakness and escape just in time.
