Mighty Hunters (1940)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Chuck Jones

Writers:

Jimmy Swinnerton (comic strip Canyon Kiddies)
Dave Monahan (story)

Release Date:

27 January 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Native American children play in the canyons of Arizona.

Plot Keywords:

Candy | Native American | Bear | Hunting | Squirrel

Cast

John Deering

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Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Leon Schlesinger Studios

Soundtrack:

Indian Dawn

Fondly remembered

I vaguely remember finding this cartoon fun as a kid. The only things I remember are a bear chasing after the kids to get a peppermint candy one of them was eating. I recall at one point the kids all hanging off a cliff, and one of them getting his pants pulled off and spending the rest of the cartoon bare-assed.

Oddly, I don't seem to remember it having Chuck Jones's signature style. It seemed more restrained and traditional than his later Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry cartoons, which were more frenetic, even bizarre and surreal.

I haven't seen it in at least twenty years. I don't know if I am remembering it correctly or not, but I seem to recall enjoying it.