Alice's Orphan (1926)
*** (out of 4)
Julius is out skating on the ice when he notices that a baby cat has fallen through. He ends up saving the cat and taking him home to Alice where he is then forced to play daddy. ALICE'S ORPHAN, as well as the previous installment ALICE'S MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY, proved that Walt Disney must have been running out of cute ideas for the series and instead turned to some rather darker elements. This short has some very funny moments as well as some winks to Chaplin's THE KID but at the same time you have to laugh at some of the humor including the baby cat crying in bed and Julius just hitting it over the head with a bat to get it to sleep! If this scene isn't weird enough then the other weird thing is the fact that Alice pretty much has a few seconds in the film and then disappears. Why they were still selling the series under her name is anyone's guess since Julius was clearly the star.
*** (out of 4)
Julius is out skating on the ice when he notices that a baby cat has fallen through. He ends up saving the cat and taking him home to Alice where he is then forced to play daddy. ALICE'S ORPHAN, as well as the previous installment ALICE'S MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY, proved that Walt Disney must have been running out of cute ideas for the series and instead turned to some rather darker elements. This short has some very funny moments as well as some winks to Chaplin's THE KID but at the same time you have to laugh at some of the humor including the baby cat crying in bed and Julius just hitting it over the head with a bat to get it to sleep! If this scene isn't weird enough then the other weird thing is the fact that Alice pretty much has a few seconds in the film and then disappears. Why they were still selling the series under her name is anyone's guess since Julius was clearly the star.