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Inspired by the Grimm's fairy tale, this classic 1938 Mickey cartoon finds our hero (voiced by Walt Disney) battling a hilariously huge "problem.

The setting is in Medieval Times. Mickey Mouse, a tailor voiced by Walt Disney, is appointed by the king to kill the giant. He finally accomplishes this feat after much trouble by sewing up the giant. He wins the hand of Princess Minnie Mouse.—Anonymous

During the Middle Ages in Europe, a king is seeking a brave warrior to kill a giant who has been terrorizing his small kingdom. There is much discussion in the village, but no one is willing to take on the task. While this is happening, a young peasant tailor (Mickey Mouse) kills seven flies at once while at his work. He unknowingly interrupts a conversation among several other peasants about the problems with the giant to brag loudly about his accomplishment.

Peasant (to his friends): "Say, did you ever kill a giant?" Mickey (sticking his head out his window): "I killed seven with one blow!"

Gossip that Mickey has killed seven giants with one blow quickly spreads around the kingdom. The king summons him and asks if he really "killed seven at one blow". He goes into an elaborate retelling of how he killed the seven (flies, not giants as the king believes), which impresses the king enough to appoint him "Royal High Killer of the Giant". On discovering the misunderstanding, all of Mickey's confidence disappears, and he attempts to stammer his way out of the assignment. The king thinks he is holding out for a bigger payday and offers him increasingly vast riches and then (at her suggestion) the hand of his only daughter, Princess Minnie, in marriage if he can kill, or at least subdue, the giant. Smitten with Minnie, Mickey proclaims he'll "cut [the giant] down to my size" and sets off. When the gates of the town close behind him, however, his confidence fails him and he wants to turn back, but he sees Minnie and the townspeople screaming and shouting him on from the walls and decides to soldier on.

"Gosh", Mickey sighs to himself later, sitting in a field of a deserted countryside wondering what to do. Just then, the giant appears, forcing Mickey to scramble for a place to hide as the giant's feet crush rocks, trees and buildings, and causes nearby local animals to flee as he walks, until he stops to sit on a barn. He picks up a cart of pumpkins and eats them, as if they were grapes, with increasing handfuls until he dumps the rest into his mouth. Mickey, who was hiding in the cart with the pumpkins, keeps himself from being swallowed with them by clinging to the giant's uvula, which gives the giant a case of the hiccups. To remedy this, the giant pulls a water well from the ground and drinks from it as though it were a thermos, and Mickey is saved from drowning in the giant's stomach by getting caught by the well's bucket. The reprieve is short-lived, however, as the giant almost immediately grabs the haystack in which Mickey seeks refuge and rolls it into a cigarette, and then to light it, lifts off the roof of a nearby house to get its stove so he can use it like a lighter. He then leans on a silo to relax. The smoke makes Mickey sneeze, which finally brings him to the attention of the giant.

The giant, after getting poked in the nose with a pair of scissors, attempts to squash Mickey but misses. Mickey lures the giant into reaching under his sleeves, quickly produces a needle and thread, and binds the giant's arms. He then lassos the giant's nose, pulls it up, and ties it to his hair, preventing him from opening his eyes, before swinging around him and then tripping him. The giant falls down, crushing the ground where he lands and sending a chunk of earth into the air, that falls on his head and knocks him out. After a sigh of relief, Mickey dusts his hands triumphantly.

Following the giant's defeat, an amusement park is built on the site of the battle. The carnival rides are powered, via a series of belts and gears connected to a windmill, by wind from the snoring giant, who is chained to the ground. The film ends with the king and a newly married Mickey and Minnie enjoying a ride on the carousel.