| Pluto's Judgement Day | |
| Director: | David Hand |
| Producer: | Walt Disney |
| Starring: | Don Brodie Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Lee Millar Clarence Nash Frank Nelson The Rhythmettes Billy Sheets[1] |
| Music: | Frank Churchill Leigh Harline |
| Animator: | Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Fred Moore Bill Roberts Bob Wickersham Clyde Geronimi Ward Kimball Hardie Gramatky[2] |
| Studio: | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributor: | United Artists |
| Released: | [3] |
| Color Process: | Technicolor |
| Runtime: | 8 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Pluto's Judgement Day is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star is Pluto.[4] It was the 78th short film in the Mickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.[5]
Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey angrily scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty attitude towards cats, warning that he will have "plenty to answer for on (his) judgement day" if he keeps this up. Mickey then goes off to wash the kitten while Pluto falls asleep in front of the fireplace.
While asleep, a phantom cat goads Pluto into chasing him, over Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a trap where shackles magically chained him and put on trial as the cats declare him "Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats, whom Pluto has ever tormented, testify against him: A tubby kitten speaks of being picked on and chased by Pluto because he (the cat) was fat and was flattened by a steamroller while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the post-traumatic stress disorder which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three young blackface kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned their Uncle Tom (as Tom's nine ghosts briefly appear) in a river. Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive by being repelled in a seat into flames by the angry cats, when he wakes up after a hot cinder from the fireplace strikes his rear. Pluto rushes off into the tub to ease the burn, and Mickey, washing the kitten, urges the two to make up, which each one readily does much to Mickey's delight.
The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[6]