Clock Cleaners

1937

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 71%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 71%
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 3199 3.2K

clock tower cartoon spring stork short film short

Plot summary

It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!

Director

Ben Sharpsteen Photo
Ben Sharpsteen

Top cast

Clarence Nash Photo
Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
James MacDonald Photo
James MacDonald as Spring
Walt Disney Photo
Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
Vance Colvig Jr. Photo
Vance Colvig Jr. as Goofy
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78.39 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   dk   es   fi   it   no   pt   sv  
23.976 fps
12 hr 8 min
Seeds 2
145.49 MB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   dk   es   fi   it   no   pt   sv  
23.976 fps
12 hr 8 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CuriosityKilledShawn 7 / 10

Quite good

Though it is yet another 'everything goes wrong' cartoon (pretty much EVERY Disney short) this one has enough imagination to keep you amused. I remember watching it as a kid and being impressed with the set-pieces and hijinks even then.Basically Mickey, Donald and Goofy are cleaning a huge clock tower, taller than all the little skyscrapers (surely no one would be able to tell the time from down on the street) at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It's a risky dangerous job but they seem to all know what they're doing and never loose their footholds. But a big stork, an angry spring and a sleepwalking Goofy all make it end in disaster. Funny!
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10

The trio delivers

It does not happen too often that we get Mickey, Donald and Goofy in one cartoon, but here it is the case. Thanks Walt Disney. However, this 8-minute cartoon is really more of a collection of 5 or 6 very short cartoons and the three do not really interact too much with each other apart from Mickey and Goofy in the last segment. But that's not meant derogative in anyway. All three of them are funny enough to watch on their own and one never gets bored here. Mickey struggles getting a sleepy bird out of the clock. Donald has trouble with the clockwork. And Goofy just won't get out of the bell. This short film from almost 80 years ago is truly fun to watch. Disney delivers as always and Colvig and Nash are among the most talented voice actors of all time. Final mention to 2-time Academy Award winning director Ben Sharpsteen for his work here. He also contributed to several of the early Disney classics. With all these talented people involved here, this could only turn out a success. And it did. Recommended.
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