Release Date July 16, 1954
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Running Time 7:01
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Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
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The days of knighthood are gone forever, but don't tell that to Chip 'n' Dale. Chivalry may be dead, but knighthood itself was in full flower (at least in 1954) as the two chipmunks have their own more modern dragons to slay.
Chip is reading a book of fairy tales and imagining himself as a valiant knight, when he sees a menacing shadow on the hillside Yipes! It looks exactly like the dragon he's been reading about. He goes to tell Dale, who naturally doesn't believe him and points to his overactive imagination and the book of fairty tales as the probable cause of his delusion. But then he sees the same shadow and is convinced. They are under attack by a dragon!
The dragon, however, turns out to be Donald Duck's steamshovel clearing outthe way for a new freeway, and Chip 'n' Dale treehouse (which from just the correct angle looks just like a medieval castle) just happen to be in the way. They try everything to beat away the intruder; sticks and stones. But then they look back at their book of fairy tales and realize that the best way to get rid of a modern dragon is to become a modern knight. A suit of armor is quickly put together using some old tin cans; Dale goes down on all fours as a trusty mount and it's off to battle.
The one thing that the new knights maybe didn't expect was that their dragon was going to be of the fire-breathing variety, which Donald has created using a well-fitted acetylene torch. The chipmunks charge, the dragon blows fire and the munks are left there with stunned with the tip of their lance melted. Retreat! And back to plan a different strategy.
Luckily for them, the dragon has decided that now is the perfect time to tak a nap. They sneak out while the dragon is sleeping and POINK! lanch him right in his steamshovel jaw. Donald decides to play along and raises the shovel up and down in a death rage and then doesn a perfect fall onto the ground, seemingly dead. The chipmunks rejoice in a victory dance, maybe a little too soon as the shovel gets up from playing possum and gobbles them up. Inside the dragon's mouth, Chip 'n' Dale look for some way out, find a loose metal bar that is conveniently lying inside and knock one of the dragons front teeth out. Lucklily for Donald he has a handy replacement gold tooth to replace it with.
The dragon resumes it's attack, and this time the two knights throw everything they've got at it. They roll a boulder on top of it which only succeeds in shaking it a little. They throw a barrel of tar, which only succeeds is pulling it's whole mouth of teeth out. The dragon then gums Chip 'n' Dale up and throws them in a nearby toolbox for safekeeping.
Now the one thing you don't want to give two chipmunks as resourceful as Chip 'n' Dale are tools. They cut their way out of the toolbox and begin going to work on the steamshovel as it prepares it's final assault on the castle. The dragon charges, shedding parts and pieces along the way until all that's left when Donald finally reaches the tree is enough for a unicycle which crashes him into the side of the castle. Chip 'n' Dale enjoy a good laugh at Donald's expense thinking this must be the end of that problem.
But Donald hasn't given up yet. Sans dragon now, he goes to get some dynamite and decides to blow them sky high! He circles the tree with the dynamite and goes off to listen for the explosion, But The two knights, as usual, are onto him and have taken the dynamite and replaced the spokes of his ladder with the sticks. Chip blows up a paper bag to make Donald think the explosion has already happened, and when he climbs the ladder to check progess, Chip stops him with a "stop, look, listen!" Donald stops, looks, and listens and realizes he's been had, and runs off, ladder still in tow as a pair of stilts which blows Donald to the stars.
Chip 'n' Dale have succedded in vanquishing one dragon , but are there any more in these modern times? Dale turns around and yipes! Another dragon! Happily, it only turns out to be Chip holding up the picture from their fairy tale book which gets shredded into history as they do their victory dance.
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