The Flying Jalopy

March. 12,1943      NR
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Donald Duck buys a rattletrap used airplane from devious proprietor Ben Buzzard, who tricks the unsuspecting duck into making Ben the beneficiary in case of an accident. Ben then leads Donald on a reckless flight, trying to make the plane crash so that he collect a fortune from Donald's misfortune.

Clarence Nash as  Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva as  Ben Buzzard (voice) (uncredited)

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Reviews

Hellen
1943/03/12

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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LouHomey
1943/03/13

From my favorite movies..

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Dynamixor
1943/03/14

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Invaderbank
1943/03/15

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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OllieSuave-007
1943/03/16

Ben Buzzard tries to sell a broken plane to Donald Duck and tricks him into signing an insurance policy that is payable to Buzzard should Donald get into a wreck. So, he tries several times to get Donald to wreck the plane while he was flying, resulting in some clever comeback scenes by Donald and some funny moments, like when Donald hammers Buzzard on his head.Some suspense and excitement in this cartoon short and plenty of action to get the story going. Donald does get the upper hand several times and delivers yet another hilarious performance.Grade B+

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Michael_Elliott
1943/03/17

The Flying Jalopy (1943)*** (out of 4)Donald Duck wants to buy an airplane so he heads to a used lot where a crooked buzzard talks him into buying a junk plane. That's not the only thing the buzzard has in mind because he fools Donald into signing a life insurance policy over to him so now the mail goal is to make sure Donald dies in a crash.THE FLYING JALOPY is another cute and fun Disney short that offers up Donald on a platter for a very fun villain who of course just wants to make sure the duck doesn't live so that he can be awarded some money. This makes for some very good action once we take to the skies and the two characters really play well off of one another. Fans of the Donald shorts will certainly like this one.

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TheLittleSongbird
1943/03/18

Seeing as I do love Disney and Donald is one of my favourite animated characters, I saw The Flying Jalopy as part of my Donald Duck short marathon, I've also had one for Mickey, and Goofy and Pluto are to come in due course. While not one of Donald's very finest, The Flying Jalopy is very entertaining. The animation is beautifully detailed and vibrant, the mountains are especially impressive, and the music is characterful and energetic with lovely orchestration also. The story as ever is simple and told and paced in a lively fashion, and it is interesting and entertaining to see the lengths taken by Ben to put Donald in peril. The Flying Jalopy is somewhat atypical though, while entertaining Donald is not at his very best not being in a situation that leaves him annoyed or easily frustrated. And there is his adversary, Ben Buzzard, a very telling character who couldn't be more different from Donald's other adversaries, apart from causing chaos(the worst the other adversaries came to against Donald) this marks the first time anybody actually tries or wants to kill Donald. Even with that angle, The Flying Jalopy does thankfully avoid showing this in a overly-sadistic and violently distasteful(The Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons should have taken notes from this). The voice work is very good as ever. All in all, entertaining though different to what we usually see from Donald Duck shorts, but could've worked in its favour or against it, good thing to know is that The Flying Jalopy fell into the former camp. 9/10 Bethany Cox

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Ron Oliver
1943/03/19

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.THE FLYING JALOPY Donald has purchased from scurrilous Ben Buzzard is meant to fall apart - leaving Ben the beneficiary of a $10,000 accident policy he's duped the Duck into signing.Donald nearly sings his swan song in this enjoyable little film. Ben Buzzard is a colorful old villain; it's a shame Disney didn't develop the rascal's character further and use him again. Clarence "Ducky" Nash provides Donald's unique voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.

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