The Dognapper (1934)

best movie i've ever seen.

A Masterpiece!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is a hilarious cartoon where Mickey and Donald (a very early version of Donald) team up to rescue Fifi from dognapper Pegleg Pete. From dodging runaway seesaws to fighting gunfire, this cartoon is chock full of classic slapstick humor and silly action.Clarence Nash voices both Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse in this short and did a good job, matching his Mickey voice like Walt Disney's.The quality of the animation is great and holds up well throughout its time, even though it's an 80+ year-old black and white cartoon short! Great fun here! Grade A

This is a black and white Mickey Mouse cartoon produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:Mickey and Donald are police officers, Pegleg Pete is a dognapper who has taken a yapping ball of fur named Fifi. Mickey and Donald aren't exactly the best police in the world and their chase of Pete is filled with excellently animated bouts of cowardice and ineptitude on the part of our heroes, particularly Donald (actually proto-Donald, as the character design is markedly different from the Donald most people are familiar with).Most of the short is spent in a sawmill and a big chunk of it is spent with tables being turned and the advantage switching from Mickey back to Pete, generally because Donald does something that helps out Pete. What finally settles things is a circular saw-blade which comes free and chases down Pete. Some of the best gags and animation come along in this section, as the saw-blade seems to go after Pete like he stole its wallet.Mickey and Donald take advantage of Pete's plight and truss him up. The last scene is rather funny, This short is available on the Disney Treasures Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume One and it and the set are worth finding. Recommended.

That's how good The Dognapper is. The animation is great, the black and white colours are very crisp, the backgrounds never feel too sparse, the characters are well-drawn(even if I am familiar with and prefer their features later on) and it all looks very crisp. The music as I've said many times has always been a large part of why the Disney shorts on the most part are so good to me. The Dognapper is no exception to this, the orchestration is beautiful and lively and it is full of non-stop energy. I just love the characters. Mickey is a likable hero, which contrasts wonderfully with Donald's temperamental coward, while Pete is as antagonistic as ever. The story has never a dull moment and what was also really good was how it jumped straight into things instead of having lots of filler to begin with. And The Dognapper is non-stop action and gags. These gags are ones that are laugh-a-minute as well, and all of them are spot-on, right from Pete knocking out the bridge and Mickey and Donald stretching their motorcycle to ride the rails to the silhouette images of the characters in the hole to the sawmill chasing them. In conclusion, not my favourite Disney short but up there with the best of them. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This early black and white Disney cartoon has Mickey and Donald as motorcycle cops who hear that Minnie Mouse's Pekingese dog Fifi was stolen by Peg Leg Pete. He speeds past their transit trap and they give chase. He shoots at them, and Donald tries to protect himself with an umbrella which is shot to pieces. Pete also rips the planks off a bridge, but the motorcycle and side car spread apart on the bridges' girders and ride up and down like on a roller coaster. They follow him to a deserted saw mill, and he fights with them after chaining Fifi down.Disney's cartoons have attractions such as his sight gags and a sense of goofiness (no pun intended). Here the goofiness is in the latter part of the confrontation when Pete turns on a large buzz saw to kill Mickey and Donald. This backfires when the buzz saw gets loose and starts chasing Pete, turning everything (including his peg leg) against him.Not the greatest of Disney's cartoons (one misses the non-involvement of Minnie - she is shown in a newspaper photo but never in the confrontation, as a possible hostage for Peg Leg Pete's use), but the fun of the cartoon is good and promised better results later on.