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Dumbo (1941) 7.3
Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. |
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Cast
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James Baskett | ... |
Crow
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Herman Bing | ... |
The Ringmaster
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Billy Bletcher | ... |
Clown
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Edward Brophy | ... |
Timothy Q. Mouse
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Jim Carmichael | ... |
Crow
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Hall Johnson Choir | ... |
Choral Sounds
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Jim Crow
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The Elephant Matriarch /
Mrs. Jumbo
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Noreen Gammill | ... |
Catty the Elephant
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Eddie Holden | ... |
Clown
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Mr. Stork
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Malcolm Hutton | ... |
Skinny
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The King's Men | ... |
Choral Effects
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Harold Manley | ... |
Boy
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John McLeish | ... |
Narrator
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, veteran of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed "Dumbo". After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential. Written by Tim Pickett <quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
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M...Is For Timothy Q. MOUSE, DUMBO'S Tiny Buddy...Braver Than Any Beast Alive! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 October 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dumbo the Flying Elephant See more »Filming Locations:
Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$950,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Narrator: Through the snow, and sleet, and hail / Through the blizzard, through the gale / Through the wind and through the rain / Over mountain, over plain / Through the blinding lightning flash / And the mighty thunder crash / Ever faithful, ever true / Nothing stops him, he'll get through.
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(1941) (uncredited)
Music by Oliver Wallace
Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The "Casey Junior" segment was originally much longer. It was drawn and animated, then heavily edited, cutting several minutes from its run time. The full length segment can be seen on Disney's The Reluctant Dragon (1941) DVD. See more »Goofs
Casey's train changes several times. When he starts off, he is missing the yellow car before the green passenger car, when he goes into the tunnel, he is missing the blue car that came after the elephant car, but when he exits the tunnel, the blue car is there. The scene where he contains every car is on the evening bridge scene. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: Through the snow, and sleet, and hail / Through the blizzard, through the gale / Through the wind and through the rain / Over mountain, over plain / Through the blinding lightning flash / And the mighty thunder crash / Ever faithful, ever true / Nothing stops him, he'll get through.
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Soundtracks
Clown Song(1941) (uncredited)
Music by Oliver Wallace
Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer
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Disney had spent vastly more money than he'd planned on "Pinnochio" and "Fantasia", and got little of it back. "Dumbo", next off the rank, was made cheaply, quickly, without fuss. The result is simple but handsome. However handsome "Dumbo" looks, the animation is not very detailed, character design is hardly adventurous, the colours are few but bright, and in an hour it's over. It needn't be more than this, though: the story is far from complicated. It is, I'll admit, a story that has made me cry more than once; and in this instance I don't feel that I've been cheated into crying, because there really is something poignant and heartbreaking about this ugly duckling variant.
Like Hans Andersen, Disney has to pad the outfit a bit to make it fill the space available; yet, with the exception of the introductory bit with the storks, it doesn't feel like padding. In fact the most gratuitous piece of padding is the most necessary. I refer to the pink elephants sequence: a masterpiece of extended unreality (caused by such a tiny quantity of champagne!) which dazzles and sizzles and all but soars out of the screen. It's the sting in Dumbo's tail, and nothing produced since can match its verve.