| The Dognapper | |
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| Directed by | David Hand[1] |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Melvin J. Gibby |
| Music by | Frank Churchill |
| Animation by | Johnny Cannon Clyde Geronimi Hardie Gramatky Dick Lundy Bill Roberts Bob Wickersham Marvin Woodward |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Dognapper is a 1934 animatedshort film produced byWalt Disney Productions and released byUnited Artists. The cartoon starsMickey Mouse andDonald Duck as police officers who chasePegleg Pete after he dognaps Fifi, Minnie Mouse's petPekingese. The film was directed byDavid Hand and features the voices ofClarence Nash as Mickey and Donald,Pinto Colvig as Pete and Melvin J. Gibby as Fifi.[3] It was the 70th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the eighth of that year.[4] This was the first and only time that Mickey was voiced by Nash; Walt was inEurope at the time and was unavailable to record his lines for Mickey, thus, Nash took over.[5]
The plot is introduced in newspaper headlines that Fifi,Minnie Mouse'spekingese, has been dognapped, along with a description of the suspect,Peg Leg Pete. A radio transmission detailing the suspect's get-away car is heard by police officerMickey Mouse and his sidekickDonald Duck. The pair soon see Peg Leg Pete speed by in the car and they chase after him, Mickey driving a motorcycle and Donald riding in a sidecar. Despite Pete's evasive maneuvers he is unable to escape from Mickey and Donald, and they eventually follow him to his hideout in an abandonedsawmill.
Inside, Pete chains Fifi to the wall and grabs asubmachine gun. Mickey and Donald follow Pete into the sawmill and hold him at gunpoint. The film is filled with various gags showing the two law men as bumbling and incompetent, yet at every turn they are able to stay ahead of Pete, but not capture him.
Finally, while Mickey and Donald are standing on a log, Pete activates acircular saw positioned to cut the log. Mickey and Donald run to stay ahead of the blade, but eventually the end of the log comes and the saw blade shakes loose and spins out of control. The blade proves a threat for all three of the characters, but eventually Pete gets his peg leg caught in the blade's arbor hole and brings it to a stop. Mickey and Donald restrain him with acorset, and they march Pete off to jail, accompanied by the instrumental "The Girl I Left Behind" with the now-free Fifi angrily barking at him.
The short was released on December 2, 2002, onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.[6]
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