"A Donald Duck Cartoon"
Release Date April 10, 1942
Running Time 7:14
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Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
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I love it when the boys Huey,Dewey & Louie sang "For he's a Jolly Good Fellow" while building a snowman but it was kind of mean when Donald wrecked it; another scene I like is the whole snow fight scene; it's very, very, funny when Donald's icy bombshell, split the boys' flag pole into threes, and the parts started spanking them.
I suppose wars have been started over a lot less. And as far as naval battles
go, Jack Aubrey certainly has never heard of the tactics used in the finale
to this short. Still, you can't exactly say that in this case, Donald didn't
bring it upon himself.
Donald sticks his head out of the door to see how the weather is, and boy,
is it cold! So cold, in fact, that his bill turns blue. You'd think that
on a day like this Donald would have been content to stay inside by the fire,
but out he goes to enjoy a day of sledding, After pulling his sled up the
hill singing "Jingle Bells" all the way, (giving a final little "ding-dong"
at the top of the hill) he sees his nephews have had the same idea and are
busy building a snowman.
Someday Donald might learn to control his more troublesome tendencies, but
not this day. With an evil glint in his eyes. he decides to have a little
fun at his nephews expense. Aiming his sled with military precision, he takes
off and BLAMMO! ... hits the just completed snowman, raining the pieces down
on the three.
Huey, Dewey and Louie plot a little revenge. Knowing that Donald couldn't
possibly resist doing it again; they build another. They've got Donald figured
out, alright, as he aims again, takes off and BLAMMO! ... but this time the
snowman disguises a rock which blasts Donald so bad even his fur coat goes
to pieces. This, of course, means war.
Huey, Dewey and Louie hole up in their snow fort, while Donald constructs
a battleship out of ice in the middle of a nearby pond. Donald gets the first
salvo; a perfectly constructed ice mortar that scatters the nephews like
so many bowling pins. Donald goes for the spare with a snow bowling ball.
Another mortar splits their flagpole straight down the middle in three pieces
giving them a three for one whack on their collective bottoms.
Donald backs down for a few minutes thinking that the nephews must be ready
to give up by now. Not a chance. They are busy preparing their own mortars,
but booby trapping them as well. Their return attack strikes Donald with
everything they've got; mousetraps, crossbow delivered snowballs, flaming
coals (which turn part of Donald's boat into a perfect death's head; he should
have taken the hint.) Their final salvo is a bit of a stretch (flaming
snowballs?), but they seem to do the trick and reduce Donald's battleship
into a quickly melting torrent of water which dunks him into the drink; splashing
back up and instantly freezing again.
Okay, enough with the snow battle, the nephews think; let's play cowboys
and indians. And with Donald as their ice sculptured totem pole, they have
the perfect prop.
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