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Trick or Treat

  • 1952
  • Approved
  • 8m
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7.2/10
2.4K
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Trick or Treat (1952)
AnimationComedyFamilyShort

When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald ... Read allWhen the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.

  • Director
    • Jack Hannah
  • Writers
    • Ralph Wright
    • Ted Osborne
    • Al Taliaferro
  • Stars
    • Ken Darby
    • June Foray
    • James MacDonald
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    2.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jack Hannah
    • Writers
      • Ralph Wright
      • Ted Osborne
      • Al Taliaferro
    • Stars
      • Ken Darby
      • June Foray
      • James MacDonald
    • 21User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Ken Darby
    Ken Darby
    • Jack-O'lantern
    • (uncredited)
    June Foray
    June Foray
    • Hazel the Witch
    • (uncredited)
    James MacDonald
    • Beelzebub
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Clarence Nash
    Clarence Nash
    • Donald Duck
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    • Director
      • Jack Hannah
    • Writers
      • Ralph Wright
      • Ted Osborne
      • Al Taliaferro
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    Kirpianuscus

    just lovely

    It preserves every flavor of childhood from a time when the notion of Halloween was unknown for me , living under ceausescu regime.

    But the tenacious, nice - for kids - witch and her solution for help the nephews of greedy Donald Duck works today like in 1952. Because it represents a chain of demonstrations of imagination, a nice story, fair atmosphere, creepy characters in different light and a sadistic Donald , easy to recognize in few old people, living alone, traits.

    But, no doubts, the most seductive remains the witch Hazel , scared by pumpkin, full of compasion about bad joke to children and determined to offer satisfaction ( not only for them). So, pure delight.
    StreepFan126

    A Disney Halloween Tradition

    This is one of those Disney Halloween cartoons that has become a viewing tradition for most families. It is in the Halloween Haunts Cartoon Collection from Disney, and was featured in A Disney halloween, aka Halloween Treat. When Donald cheats his nephews out of candy for Trick or Treating, Witch Hazel helps the boys get even. You can probable guess who wins this battle!!!
    10TheLittleSongbird

    The quintessential Halloween cartoon

    There are a lot of Halloween cartoons I love, "Pluto's Judgement Day" and "Broom-Stick Bunny" being two of a great many but I personally think your Halloween is incomplete without "Trick or Treat". This Silly Symphony-all of which are cute, funny and endearing- is brilliant in every way, from the astounding visual effects to the stunning animation which hasn't dated at all it is a delight to the eyes. Also the music is wonderful it provides just the right amount of chills and thrills, as is the voice acting. Our favourite cantankerous quack is voiced to perfection by the incomparable Clarence "Ducky" Nash, while it is June Foray who steals the show as Witch Hazel. Scary and funny(especially with Donald's treatment of his nephews), this is a must see.

    10/10 Bethany Cox
    8jeremycrimsonfox

    Neat Old Time Halloween Short

    On Halloween night, a witch is seen getting into the Halloween spirit, scaring things, but is scared of a jack-o-lantern. Hiding, she observes Huey, Dewey, and Louie, in costume, trick-or-treating. However, the house they go to is their Uncle Donald's, who decides to hoard all the candy he has for himself and play mean tricks on his own nephews, like giving them firecrackers and pouring water on the poor lads (and this was back when kids watching these short cartoon knew better than to do the slapstick they see on them). Thankfully, the witch, Hazel, feels bad about what she witnessed and meets the three ducklings and happy to see they believe in witches, befriends them and decides to help them get back at their uncle, as Hazel and the three team up to pull the greatest trick on Donald.

    This is a neat classic Donald Duck cartoon. This is one of the few that actually has the witch as the hero instead of a bad guy like most literature and media poses them as. Also, the short has a good song to go with it "Trick Or Treat For Halloween" which explains the moral the episode teaches about not being stingy, especially with trick-or-treaters, as if you are going to trick them, you better be prepared to be tricked back.
    7OllieSuave-007

    More tricks.

    This is a somewhat cute Disney Cartoon starring Donald Duck, who plays a mean trick on nephews Huey, Duey and Louie by giving them firecrackers than candy on Halloween. After their bags explode, Donald douses them with water. Soon, the Witch Hazel sees this and decides to help the boys by giving Donald a taste of his own medicine.

    This cartoon short contains a catchy Halloween song and some funny moments. Donald as usual gets the brunt of the bad luck, but, at least the nephews weren't bratty or very annoying in this one. A good one for Halloween and a good one for the kids.

    Grade B-

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    • Trivia
      As its animators were working on this cartoon, the Disney studio asked its comic book unit to produce a special Halloween issue that would appear on newsstands as the short reached the big screen. Western Publishing duly sent storyboard stats to its star artist, asking him to draw a feature-length story similar to that of the cartoon. But Carl Barks "soon found that the material wouldn't fill the 32 pages that were then the length of a feature, so I ad-libbed some extra stuff", hammering out extensive additions and revisions. Some of his new material, however (including a spooky graveyard and a six-armed cyclops named Smorgie), were considered so dark, grisly, or bizarre that parts of the comic book had to be redrawn or were censored outright, and when "Trick or Treat" appeared in Donald Duck # 26 (November 1952), it had been shorn to 23 pages.
    • Goofs
      The eyes of Dewey's costume are only shown as holes throughout most of the short until the very last shot of the nephews waving goodbye to Witch Hazel, then his eyes are shown peeking through the holes.
    • Quotes

      Hazel the Witch: Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two... This is the real thing, you know, right out of Shakespeare. NECK OF BOTTLE, TAIL OF COAT, AND... whiskers from a billy goat! *cackles*

      Huey: [gives whiskers] There you are, Hazel.

      Hazel the Witch: Yuck, repulsive...

      [carefully drops whiskers into the brew]

      Hazel the Witch: [Hazel cackles as the cauldron magically erupts as it mixes]

      Hazel the Witch: Delightfully gruesome reaction.

      [Tastes the mix and does crazy things from the effects]

      Hazel the Witch: [gurgles and bubbles] Kids, this stuff's loaded!

    • Crazy credits
      The title cards, including Donald's face usually shown over a sunburst background, are done in the style of painted graffiti on a fence.
    • Connections
      Edited into Disney's Haunted Halloween (1983)
    • Soundtracks
      Trick or Treat
      (uncredited)

      Written by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston

      Performed by The Mellowmen Quartet

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    • Release date
      • October 10, 1952 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bus eller godis
    • Filming locations
      • Walt Disney Studios - 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Walt Disney Productions
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    • Runtime
      8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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