When Long John Silver learns that the Captain has the winning lottery ticket, he invades the house dressed as a woman to steal it.
It's one of the 15 'The Captain and the Kids' cartoons produced by Fred Quimby's unit at MGM in the last two years of the 1930s. Quimby had gone through the various cartoon factories and stolen as much of their top talent as he could. Unfortunately, it's impossible to be sure who directed this, because only Rudolph Dirks was credit as the writer of the comic strip. Some of the gags indicate that Friz Freleng was in charge, as he was so often.
While Long John is certainly an engaging comic villain in this one, the Captain is largely an inert comic butt for his gags, giving him an Elmer-Fudd-like demeanor. Most of the ultimate destruction is left for the kids. The result is an amusing cartoon.
It's one of the 15 'The Captain and the Kids' cartoons produced by Fred Quimby's unit at MGM in the last two years of the 1930s. Quimby had gone through the various cartoon factories and stolen as much of their top talent as he could. Unfortunately, it's impossible to be sure who directed this, because only Rudolph Dirks was credit as the writer of the comic strip. Some of the gags indicate that Friz Freleng was in charge, as he was so often.
While Long John is certainly an engaging comic villain in this one, the Captain is largely an inert comic butt for his gags, giving him an Elmer-Fudd-like demeanor. Most of the ultimate destruction is left for the kids. The result is an amusing cartoon.
