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.
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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.
10/10 Bethany Cox
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.
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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- TriviaAs 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.
- GoofsThe 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.
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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 creditsThe title cards, including Donald's face usually shown over a sunburst background, are done in the style of painted graffiti on a fence.
- ConnectionsEdited into Disney's Haunted Halloween (1983)
- SoundtracksTrick or Treat
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Written by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston
Performed by The Mellowmen Quartet
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