Pluto's Judgement Day
| Pluto's Judgement Day | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | David Hand |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Don Brodie Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Lee Millar Clarence Nash Frank Nelson The Rhythmettes Billy Sheets[1] |
| Music by | Frank Churchill Leigh Harline |
| Animation by | Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Fred Moore Bill Roberts Bob Wickersham Clyde Geronimi Ward Kimball Hardie Gramatky[2] |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Pluto's Judgement Day is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star is Pluto.[4] It was the 78th short film in the Mickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.[5]
Plot
[edit]Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey angrily scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty attitude towards cats, warning that he will have "plenty to answer for on (his) judgement day" if he keeps this up. Mickey then goes off to wash the kitten while Pluto falls asleep in front of the fireplace.
While asleep, a phantom cat goads Pluto into chasing him, over Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a trap where shackles magically chained him and put on trial as the cats declare him "Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats, whom Pluto has ever tormented, testify against him: A tubby kitten speaks of being picked on and chased by Pluto because he (the cat) was fat and was flattened by a steamroller while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the post-traumatic stress disorder which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three young blackface kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned their Uncle Tom (as Tom's nine ghosts briefly appear) in a river. Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive by being repelled in a seat into flames by the angry cats, when he wakes up after a hot cinder from the fireplace strikes his rear. Pluto rushes off into the tub to ease the burn, and Mickey, washing the kitten, urges the two to make up, which each one readily does much to Mickey's delight.
Voice cast
[edit]- Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
- Lee Millar as Pluto
- Frank Nelson as Cat Prosecutor
- Clarence Nash as the kitten and Cat Victim #2
- Billy Sheets as Cat Judge
- Don Brodie as Dream Cat and Cat Victim #1
- Pinto Colvig as Cat Doctor
- Homer Hall male quartet as Cat Jury and Uncle Tom's ghosts
- The Rhythmettes as singing kittens[1]
Television
[edit]- c. 1977 – The Wonderful World of Disney, episode #5: "Halloween Hall o' Fame" (TV)
Home media
[edit]The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
- ^ "Disney's "Pluto's Judgement Day" (1935) |".
- ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^ "Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)". IMDb. 31 August 1935. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Mickey Mouse in Living Color DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
External links
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