| Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive | |
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| Directed by | Jack Hannah |
| Story by | Dick Kinney |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Pinto Colvig Clarence Nash |
| Music by | Oliver Wallace |
| Animation by | Al Coe Andy Engman Hugh Fraser Jim Moore |
| Layouts by | Yale Gracey |
| Backgrounds by | Thelma Witmer |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive is a 1946 animated short film produced byWalt Disney Productions and released byRKO Radio Pictures.[1] In this installment of theDonald & Goofy series,Donald Duck appears as "Frank Duck", a jungle explorer determined to capture a live "wild man", played byGoofy. The film was directed byJack Hannah and features the voices ofClarence Nash as Donald andPinto Colvig as Goofy.[2]
The character Frank Duck and the title of the film are spoofs ofFrank Buck and his 1930 bookBring 'Em Back Alive which was adapted into a1932 documentary film.
Goofy appears as a wild man living in anAfrican jungle, gracefully swinging from vine to vine (a nod toTarzan).
Employed by the Ajax Circus, Frank Duck (Donald) arrives in the jungle on a river boat in search of a wild man. After Goofy bungles an attempt to kill Frank, Frank presents the illiterate wild man with a contract which the wild man eventually eats. Frank tries to capture the wild man and put him into a cage, but the wild man escapes, seemingly unintentionally, and helps Frank load the empty cage onto his boat.
Upon realizing his mistake, Frank angrily returns with the cage and continues to chase the wild man until he chases him into a lion's den. Viewing them as food, the lion walks into the den and starts chasing them. In the ensuing chaos, Frank and the wild man find themselves wearing each other's clothes. The lion chases them back to Frank's boat, which the wild man hops into and drives away, leaving Frank to be chased by the lion.
The short was released on December 6, 2005, onWalt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Two: 1942-1946.[3]
