"A Mickey Mouse Cartoon"
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Released by United Artists Pictures
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Released in 16mm form under the title "Mickey Saves the Airmail."
From Jerry Edwards : Mickey's determination to deliver the mail in his small plane is tested by weather and Pete, a wanted mail bandit. Mickey succeeds in capturing Pete after a furious aerial battle. Enjoyable short, with plenty of action and gags. I especially like the creative ways Mickey kept his plane flying after Pete shoots off the propeller - such as using a clothes line to convert the plane to a helicopter and later using a windmill's "arms" as a propeller. The weather scenes, especially the snow, are nicely animated.
From Ryan : Although this short really isn't one of my favorites, I do enjoy the animation. The scene with Mickey going through the snowstorm is nicely done as well as him going through the rain. I noticed that the sun was drawn with a face kind of like in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." This is one of those shorts that Disney colorized, but I haven't seen the colorized version.
From Bill : Great classic black and white Mickey. I especially liked the plot, again classic Mickey where Mickey is against the bigger bad guy and takes his licks, but through cunning and bravery he wins the day and his girl, Minnie. I also liked the liked the subtle gag where Mickey aims the oil can at Pete, shoots it, and the oil drips down to form cell bars. I just wonder why Disney cannot or will not make shorts again like this. I guess they don't make gag writers or storymen like they used to.
From Gijs Grob : Mickey is a mail pilot who deals with a blizzard and an evil mail robber (not Peg Leg Pete). This is one of the 1933 cartoons introduced by a song ("The Mail Must Go Through"). This song forms the main musical theme, which is developed in classical fashion in the rest of the score. The design of the anthropomorphized sun is the same as in "Father Noah's Ark" from one month earlier. The story of "The Mail Pilot" and that of "Shanghaied" (1934) were later loosely combined in Floyd Gottfredson's comic strip "Mickey and the Pirates" (1934).
