Trick or Treat (1952)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Jack Hannah

Writer:

Ralph Wright (story)

Release Date:

10 October 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Comedy | Short

Plot:

After Donald plays a cruel Halloween prank on his nephews, the 3 team-up with a witch and her broom to teach him a lesson about 'tricks and treats.'

Plot Keywords:

Halloween | Witch Hazel | Huey Dewey And Louie | Witchcraft | Practical Joke

Cast

June Foray	...	Hazel the Witch (voice)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:G

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

As its animators were working on this cartoon, the Disney studio asked its comic book unit to produce a special Halloween issue that would appear on newsstands as the short reached the big screen. Western Publishing duly sent storyboard stats to its star artist, asking him to draw a feature-length story similar to that of the cartoon. But Carl Barks "soon found that the material wouldn't fill the 32 pages that were then the length of a feature, so I ad-libbed some extra stuff", hammering out extensive additions and revisions. Some of his new material, however (including a spooky graveyard and a six-armed cyclops named Smorgie), were considered so dark, grisly, or bizarre that parts of the comic book had to be redrawn or were censored outright, and when "Trick or Treat" appeared in Donald Duck # 26 (November 1952), it had been shorn to 23 pages.

Quotes:

Hazel the Witch: Double double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two... This is the real thing you know, right out of Shakespeare.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Disneyland: All About Magic (#3.15)" (1957)

Donald's Halloween "Witch-Up"

Another good Halloween cartoon from Disney, starring Donald Duck and reprising the talents of June Foray as another Witch Hazel (now don't get confuse with Warner Bros' version) who helps Huey, Dewy & Louie get their candy from Donald, who doesn't do the treat (in Trick or Treat) but the trick! So Hazel and the boys are going to teach him a lesson, about tricking people on Halloween Night; with a little witchcraft of course.

I love it when Hazel casts a magic spell on Donald's feet, and he starts dancing around (and making him kick out the pantry-key he swallowed); And I also love the title song too.