Get Rich Quick (1951)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Jack Kinney

Writers:

Milt Schaffer (story) &
Dick Kinney (story)

Release Date:

31 August 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

George Geef (a Goofy lookalike) likes to gamble, but his wife doesn't like him doing it.

Plot Keywords:

Poker | Gambling | Surrealism | Horse | Goofy The Character

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

UK:U

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Movie Connections:

Edited into "Disneyland: A Salute to Father (#7.13)" (1961)

Easy Come, Easy Go With Goofy

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

Mr. Geef hopes to GET RICH QUICK - and gambling is the way he plans to do it.

This rather odd little film has a tough time deciding where it stands in relation to Lady Luck. Goofy's two jackpot wins are hardly a warning against the dice vice for young viewers. Perhaps this ambiguity was a reflection of the animators' own experiences.

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.