He plays music with her, and when he gets a little fresh, tweaking her nose, Minnie fires back, throwing plates at him. He meekly enters and joins Minnie in a song, not joining in the revelry with a drink or cigarette like last time. In Cactus Kid, however, Mickey enters through the door, after riding in on Horace Horsecollar. He's rough around the edges and grabs Minnie to dance, not asking permission. In Gaucho, Mickey is a swaggering bundle of bravado, who enters the cantina through the window, drinks a beer and smokes a cigarette. Voice actors Īccording to Ryan Kilpatrick of The Disney Film Project, " The Cactus Kid is really just a remake of The Gallopin' Gaucho, but it has some distinct differences that make this short very memorable. Mickey and Horace's chase scene reuses some animation from Sagebrush Sadie, a 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon. The short used music from España, rhapsody for orchestra by Emmanuel Chabrier, and the chase scene was scored to Jacques Offenbach's can-can. On The Cactus Kid, animators worked for the first time to match the action to a prerecorded soundtrack, which allowed for greater synchronization than in previous cartoons. This is the last film directed by Walt Disney until his ill-judged return five years later with the Silly Symphony short The Golden Touch. He'll become fully humanized in two cartoons' time, in The Shindig. ![]() Horace Horsecollar appears in this cartoon, wearing his characteristic bowler hat, but he's still acting like a horse, and hasn't reached his final anthropomorphized form. Pete speaks for the first time in this cartoon. In this short, he takes the name Peg-Leg Pedro. Peg-Leg Pete, who had been seen with two legs in 1928's Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin' Gaucho, is seen with a peg-leg here for the first time in a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Garner continued with the role until 1941, when she left the studio. Evidently it worked out that my voice fit the character. Marge said she wouldn't and that's all there was to it. We were both scared to death, but I said sure I would. But they said they wanted Minnie to sing and would either of us like to try out for the singing part. When we got there, they said they were sorry, but they had hired a Mexican woman to do it. 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. She says in Working with Walt: Interviews with Disney Artists:īert Gillett came through the inking department one day and wanted to know if anybody could speak Spanish. This cartoon is the first to feature Marcellite Garner as the voice of Minnie Mouse. Mickey, Minnie and the horse wave goodbye to a two-dimensional Pete. Pete falls off a cliff and is squashed flat by a boulder. Mickey finally catches up with Pete and jumps onto his moving donkey, then punches him in the face. Mickey tries to follow on his horse, but ends up dragged behind the animal, poked with cactus needles. Pete emerges from the cantina with his hands around Minnie he jumps on his donkey, and rides away. The lights go out, and Mickey and Pete engage in a spirited gunfight. ![]() ![]() Mickey stands up to the bully, and they both draw their guns. ![]() Peg-Leg Pete, an ugly ruffian, dances into the cantina and grabs Minnie's arm, taking some beer and asking her for a kiss. He earns her favor again by doing a silly dance and playing the piano. He dances and plays the spoons to amuse her, but when he cheekily tweaks her nose, she becomes enraged, upbraiding him in Spanish and then pelting him with lamps and bottles. Mickey rides his horse up to a Mexican cantina, where he finds Minnie working as a waitress. It is also the last short directed by Walt Disney for the next five years as well as the final short Ub Iwerks worked on before leaving Disney up until 1940. This short features a number of notable firsts and lasts: it is the first short with Marcellite Garner as the voice of Minnie Mouse, it is also the first time in a Mickey Mouse cartoon that Pete has a peg-leg. The cartoon's cast includes Mickey, Minnie Mouse as a cantina waitress, Peg-Leg Pete as the villain Peg-Leg Pedro, and Horace Horsecollar as Mickey's horse. It was the eighteenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the third of that year. The Cactus Kid is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on May 10, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.
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