Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)

Writers:

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Release Date:

22 August 1936 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Short

Plot:

Max Hare is boxing Toby Tortoise, and beating him severely in round one. Between rounds, a Mae West...

Plot Keywords:

Fireworks | Tortoise | Boxing | Max Hare | 1930s

Cast

Alyce Ardell	...	Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner	...	Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Holden	...	Toby Tortoise (voice) (uncredited)
Leone Le Doux	...	Girl Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Ned Norton	...	Max Hare (voice) (uncredited)
Martha Wentworth	...	Jenny Wren (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Wilfred Jackson		(uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
William Cottrell		story (uncredited)
Joe Grant		story (uncredited)
Ward Kimball		story (uncredited)
Bob Kuwahara		story (uncredited)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer

Original Music by
Frank Churchill		(uncredited)
Leigh Harline		(uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Graham Heid	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Animation Department
John W. Dunn	....	animator (uncredited)
Rollin Hamilton	....	animator (uncredited)
Jack Hannah	....	animator (uncredited)
Dick Huemer	....	animator (uncredited)
Milt Kahl	....	animator (uncredited)
Ward Kimball	....	animator (uncredited)
Isadore Klein	....	animator (uncredited)
Dick Lundy	....	animator (uncredited)
Frank Oreb	....	animator (uncredited)
George Rowley	....	animator (uncredited)
Robert Stokes	....	animator (uncredited)
Marvin Woodward	....	animator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• United Artists (1936) (USA) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #2206)

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Characters from other Silly Symphony cartoons appear in the audience. Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935), and Practical Pig from Three Little Pigs (1933) (as the bell ringer) are the most visible. Also appearing are Dirty Bill from The Robber Kitten (1935), Elmer and Tillie from Elmer Elephant (1936), the Harpo Marx bird from Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935), and Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig and the Big Bad Wolf from Three Little Pigs (1933). Goofy, Donald Duck and Horace Horsecollar also appear.

Movie Connections:

References The Robber Kitten (1935)

Soundtrack:

Stars and Stripes Forever

Toby Tortoise Returns is a very hilarious sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare

After watching The Tortoise and the Hare on YouTube, I quickly watched the sequel right after on there and I found this one more hilarious than the predecessor. Actually, I thought Toby Tortoise Returns was very funny while TTATH was only amusing. Especially since the competition is now in the boxing ring and there are cameos from other stars of other Walt Disney Silly Symphonies cartoons. I was especially very amused by the Mae West bird caricature Jenny Wren and the Harpo Marx rooster (whose hair is red as opposed to the more familiar blonde) from Who Killed Cock Robin? (whose scenes I'm familiar with from seeing them in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage) There's dynamite, Mexican music, a couple of hospital orderlies, and plenty other hilarious stuff that I don't want to spoil for you. Needless to say, I very much recommend Toby Tortoise Returns.