Three Blind Mouseketeers

Three Blind Musketeers
Directed by	Dave Hand; Jack Cutting;
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Webb Smith; Merrill de Maris; Otto Englander;
Starring	Billy Bletcher; (Captain Katt);
Music by	Albert Hay Malotte
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 26, 1936;
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice and the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy Bletcher.[1]

Plot

The three blind mice are disguised as musketeers in a cellar. Captain Cat (the devious cat) sets a number of traps for the mice and goes to sleep. The mice come out to search for food, avoiding all the traps. When they uncork three bottles of wine, the corks hit Captain Cat on the nose. Captain Cat wakes up and starts chasing the mice, only ending up trapping one mouse, who starts asking for help from the other two mice reflecting on numerous bottles. Captain Cat thinks he is surrounded by mice and runs away, falling into a multitude of traps that he has prepared himself.

Voice cast

Tall Mouseketeer: Pinto Colvig
Captain Katt: Billy Bletcher
Other two Mouseketeers: Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney

Syndication

The cartoon was aired on Good Morning, Mickey! on the Disney Channel.

Home media

The short has been released on home video several times. The first was a VHS release in 1985 on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938, then in the UK on VHS on Storybook Favourites Shorts: Three Little Pigs.

Its first DVD was released was in 2003 on The Rescuers, followed in 2006 on More Silly Symphonies.[1] It was also released on Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 2: Three Little Pigs in 2009 and on The Rescuers 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under) in 2012.

References

Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.

External links

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[symphony1-1] Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.