The victim of the film is Penny, a young human girl. The main villain is Madame Medusa. She needs the girl to retrieve the "Devil's Eye" diamond, a treasure lost in the swamps of Louisiana. This adds the theme of child labor to the film. Medusa's emotional abuse of Penny has been commented as fairly realistic. Making the film considerably darker than its predecessors in theme.
The Rescuers was a critical and a box office hit, the first Disney has had since Walt Disney's death.
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