Bone Bandit

1948

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 761 761

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Plot summary

Pluto discovers that a gopher has been stealing bones from his hidden stash.

Director

Clyde Geronimi Photo
Clyde Geronimi

Top cast

James MacDonald Photo
James MacDonald as Pluto
Vance Colvig Jr. Photo
Vance Colvig Jr. as Pluto
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62.06 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 6 min
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115.08 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 6 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by southdavid 7 / 10

Give The Dog A Bone.

The next one to watch in the Disney Plus "shorts" section was this 1948 Pluto story that was a bit better than some of the other ones I've watched from a similar period.Pluto (James MacDonald) decides that he needs a bone from the stash he's got buried in Mickey's Garden. He discovers that a gopher has been digging underneath the garden and utilising his bones as support struts. Though with an obvious physical advantage, Pluto's attempts are regularly thwarted by his allergies to the plant that is currently in bloom.I did find the relationship between Pluto and the Gopher to be an interesting one. They're not quite Pro/An tagonist in their interactions, certainly nothing like the same way that Donald and Chip n Dale would prove to be, perhaps because you need a pompous character to be foiled like this for it to be funny, and Pluto is essentially a regular dog. I also found it interesting that Mickey would grow a plant that Pluto is allergic too, seems like a jerk move.I thought this looked pretty good. By 1948 we've advanced a little further than the basic animation of some of the earlier ones. I particularly liked the side on views that we see, with a cut out of the ground so we can see exactly how the gopher is using the bones in his construction.It's only seven minutes long, so there's isn't a lot to make much of a decision about, but of the shorts from this era that I've watched so far, this was one of the better ones.
Reviewed by pixrox1 6 / 10

Goldenrod actually is the main character of . . .

. . . BONE BANDIT, another incoherent Dizzy Nature film. This movie raises the question of what would happen if a human gardener planted a plot primarily consisting of that noxious weed. The Dizzy animators picture Texas Desert Goldenrod here, apparently believing it capable of causing the most catastrophic results among the eight strains predominant in North America. This picture assumes that the Sate of California lacked any zoning laws, blight ordinances or public safety officers in the late 1940's. Since I wasn't around then, I cannot say definitively whether this was True or not. But as the case of Johnnie versus Amber is proving this month, you cannot consider the so-called "Golden State" as incapable of harboring ANY outrage--whether it is curdled bed sheets or golden rods.
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