Release Date

03 Dec, 2002

Runtime

05:26: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

His Greatest Misadventures

This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.

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Actors

John McLeish

Pinto Colvig

Kevin Corcoran

Alan Reed

Billy Bletcher

Harry Owens

John Dehner

June Foray

Bobby Driscoll

Bob Jackman

Harlow Wilcox

Doodles Weaver

Fred Shields

Hannes Schroll

Crew

Bob North

Brice Mack

Dick Kinney

Leo Thiele

Milt Banta

Milt Schaffer

Nick George

Ralph Wright

Rex Cox

Riley Thomson

Sylvia Moberly-Holland

Webb Smith

Wolfgang Reitherman

Jack Kinney