"A Mickey Mouse Cartoon"

Synopsis

Cowgirl Minnie thinks she can take care of herself on the prairie, but when she's captured by Pete, Mickey must come to her rescue.

Characters

Mickey Mouse

Minnie Mouse

Pete

Credits

Director : Ben Sharpsteen

Animation : Art Babbitt

Cut Scenes

Minnie pointing gun at Pete, which he then bites in half. Pete rolling cigarette. Some gunplay during wrestling match.

Laserdiscs

United States

Mickey Mouse : The Black and White Years

Japan

Mickey Mouse : A Star is Born

Mickey Mouse : the Black and White Years : Volume 1

DVD

Disney Treasures : Mickey Mouse in Black and White

Television

Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode 61

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Black and white

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ratio : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by United Artists Pictures

Gallery

Sketches of Mickey Mouse and Pete from "Two Gun Mickey"
Courtesy of Wonderful World Art Gallery

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A segment of this short was used in the Disney feature "The Journey of Natty Gann."

Although full of action and gags, nothing really new from the typical "Mickey rescues Minnie from Pete" routine of several previous shorts.

When I first saw this short, I thought at first that the mouse traveling across the desert was Mickey. Well as soon as I got a closer look, I saw it was Minnie with her pink cowgirl clothes (of course this was the colorized version that I saw I never saw the black and white version). It's just another one of those shorts where Mickey saves Minnie. I thought that the horses were poorly drawn. They looked like they had been drawn by children. I like this short, but it's not one of my favorites.

I agree with Jerry Edwards that this is a typical Mickey rescues Minnie. However, there were gags galore and some really fine animation. I liked the shadows of Pete and Minnie on the rock ledge and the fight scene with Mickey and Pete rolling around are great! Also, the gunfight Mickey has with Pete's gang where no one runs out of ammo is classic toon. Best sight gag: when Pete punches Mickey and knocks him right out of his clothes and he falls back into them. This is the first time I saw Mickey's bare feet with toes and no gloves. Another note, there were some nice backgrounds in this short. Not my favorite Mickey, but always nice to see again.

The sixth and last of the "Pete kidnaps Minnie"-stories certainly is a magnificant one. This time the setting is the Wild West and both Mickey and Minnie talk in some southern accent. The story is familiar, but the execution is one of the best, containing a lot of fast-paced gags and beautiful 'camera-shots', including a few extreme close ups. The design of the cartoon, like its content, looks a bit old-fashioned: the horses are the same rubbery type as in the earliest Mickey Mouse outings, although a more sophisticated design had already appeared in "Ye Olden Days" (1933). "Two-Gun Mickey"' was the first cartoon directed by Ben Sharpsteen, who had joined the studio in 1929.