The Trial of Donald Duck
Title screen
Directed byJack King
Story byDan MacManus
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byJack Boyd
Ed Aardel
Paul Allen
Fred Kopietz
Layouts byDon Griffith
Backgrounds byMerle Cox
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • July 30, 1948 (1948-07-30)
Running time
6 minutes 40 seconds
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Trial of Donald Duck is a 1948 animated short film featuring Donald Duck. It was released by Walt Disney Productions.[1]

Plot

Donald Duck is put on trial by a restaurant.

Donald is trying to have his lunch illegally on park grass with the pigeons when it began to rain and he had to say goodbye to them. Beginning to rain hard, he into the shelter of a canopy to a fancy restaurant. imagining a hot cup of coffee, and having a nickel to have one, he walked in where a waiter seated him. As he only has a nickel, Donald feels that he can use it to get a cup of coffee. The waiter recommended on the menu "pomme de terre à la somme de la Louis", but Donald replied coffee. The waiter then asked in French if he wanted it small, Donald replied yes and asked for a regular Java. However, thinking he wanted small Donald was received a cup of Espresso which is the size of a thimble. Donald flies into a rage for given the wrong coffee and refused to pay.

As the waiter tries to figure out what to do, he spots Donald unpacking his dishes from his lunch box. Being sneaky, Pierre decides to charge Donald for the food that he brought into the restaurant. This leads to Donald receiving a bill for $35.99 (equal to $442.50 in 2022). Once again angered at the injustice, Donald flies into a rage, and the matter is taken to court.

Donald's lawyer portrays and confesses him as a victim in the entire mess, but the judge rules in favor of the restaurant, ordering Donald to either pay ten dollars (which is equivalent to $121.64 in 2022), or wash dishes for ten days, OR ELSE!!!

Donald accepts the ten days, but spends the entire time at the restaurant's kitchen sink destroying the dishes. The waiter pleads with Donald to stop, promising to let the whole matter go, but Donald angrily turns to him and says, 'You heard what the Judge said...ten days!' and continues with his destructive 'chore'.

Voice cast

Home media

The short was released on December 11, 2007 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three: 1947-1950.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. . ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  2. ↑ "The Chronological Donald Volume 3 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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