"A Donald Duck Cartoon"

Release Date June 2, 1944

Synopsis

Donald is given a wartime assignment to wipe out a Japanese airfield.

Characters

Donald Duck

Credits

Director : Jack King

Videos

Germany

Donald Duck's 50 Verrückte Jahre

France

Bon Anniversaire Donald

Italy

Paperino Marmittone

Laserdiscs

Japan

Donald Duck's 50 Crazy Years

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : On the Front Lines

Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 2

Cut Scenes

All reference to the Japanese as the enemy has been cut out.

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Comments

From Richard F. Jebe : The german Video is uncut! And it is in englisch language with subtitles. But it is PAL. D'oh!

From Jerry Edwards : Donald is given a secret mission to wipe out a Japanese airbase. Unfortunately, he isn't told how he is supposed to accomplish this alone. Donald gets swept over a waterfall, causing his raft to continue to enlarge like a huge balloon - filling up the water from the waterfall. Donald is thrown clear when the balloon bursts and watches all the debris from the flood wipe out the base.

This is a very imaginative cartoon and one of Donald's funniest. It is full of anti-Japanese jokes, including sniper Japs refusing to fire at Donald until Donald's back is turned to them.

From Jesus Daprice : The scenes with the washed down airplanes looked very much like a Salvador Dali painting.

From Ryan : This is one of my favorite Donald Duck cartoons. Donald is told to destroy a Japanese airfield. However, he has to watch out for dangerous things such as alligators and snipers (the shooting Japanese). I always laugh at the Japanese caricatures. In fact, I own a book called "Our Glorious Century," which covers the chronicle of the 20th Century. It has a photograph of Japanese people who look very much like one of them in this cartoon. I think Disney should show this cartoon on TV and it should be uncensored. As Jesus Daprice pointed out, the planes that are washed up after the river floods the airfield does look like a Salvador Dali painting.

From Erik : A very funny Donald short. Though I had to watch it with German subtitles, it was spoken in English, and I could care less. This cartoon had me rolling on the floor. The Donald wartime cartoons really are as funny as it gets.

From Mike : I watched this one the first time when I was 3 years old. It was funny then, and it is even more funny now as I am 18 years old and knows a little bit of history.

From Baruch Weiss : I must admit Donald is out of character, he looks scared rather than angry, but nevertheless it was a fun cartoon. I liked the Japanese characters.

I have seen "Commando Duck" and would like to
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