The Cactus Kid

The Cactus Kid (1930)

Mickey walks into the tavern where Minnie is dancing, and begins to dance and play piano himself. Pegleg Pete comes in and treats Minnie badly. Mickey tries to defend her, but Pete steals her away. Mickey, riding Horace Horsecollar, gives chase. He manages to throw Pete off a cliff.

Date of release
1930-04-11
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (35)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Family, Western
Director
Walt Disney

Casting

Interesting facts

The Cactus Kid is a 1930 American animated comedy short film directed by Walt Disney. It is the eighteenth film of the Mickey Mouse film series, the first short with Marcellite Garner as the voice of Minnie Mouse and the final short to be directed by Disney, who would sideline to being the series' producer after Burt Gillett was promoted to series director.

Production

This cartoon is the first to feature Marcellite Garner as the voice of Minnie Mouse. She says in Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists:

Bert [sic] Gillett came through the inking department one day and wanted to know if anybody could speak Spanish. I said, "Well, I can't speak it, but I can read it". Marge Ralston said that she could, too, so they took us both over to the sound stage which at the time was on Melrose. When we got there, they said they were sorry, but they had hired a Mexican woman to do it...

Garner continued with the role until 1941, when she left the studio.

The short features a gag where Mickey intends to pull out a pistol, but instead pulls out an umbrella. This is recycled from the April 23, 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip.

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