Two-Gun Mickey (1934)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Release Date:

15 December 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Western | Short

Plot:

Minnie rides into town and takes a large sack of money out of the bank. Pegleg Pete gathers his gang to take it from her...

Plot Keywords:

Pegleg Pete | Minnie Mouse | Mickey Mouse | Kids And Family | Character Name In Title

Cast

Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | USA:Approved

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: Pete's peg leg changes sides several times: as he's riding out of town, as he's crossing the log bridge, when he kicks Mickey into the air, and at the very end, at least.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Disneyland: Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (#27.7)" (1981)

Mickey Tames The Wild West

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

When Miss Minnie is menaced by Bandit Pete, it's TWO-GUN MICKEY who comes riding to her rescue.

Exciting & funny, as well as being a wonderful Western spoof, this was one of the best of the Mouse's black & white films. Sharp-eyed viewers will notice that the animators couldn't remember which leg Pete had pegged - it keeps switching from side to side. Walt Disney supplied Mickey's squeaky voice.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.