Mickey and the Beanstalk

1947
G
29m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

4.2K

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A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant'... Read allA mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

4.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Goofy
(voice)

Sterling Holloway

Narrator
(voice)

Paul Frees

Ludwig Von Drake
(voice)

W.F. Banes

Mickey Mouse's Singing Voice
(uncredited)

Edgar Bergen

Narrator
(voice)
(uncredited)

Billy Gilbert

Willie the Giant
(voice)
(uncredited)

Anita Gordon

Singing Harp
(voice)
(uncredited)

James MacDonald

Mickey Mouse (some lines)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The title/story is based on the English fairy tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk", first published anonymously in London by Benjamin Tabart in 1807 as The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk.

Goofs
During the scene where Mickey brings home the magic beans, Donald is much smaller than usual, at least compared to Goofy. Ordinarily, when comparing the two, Donald comes up to Goofy's hips, but in this scene, he'd come up to his knees.

Quotes
Crow Chorus: [singin as they fly toward a scarecrow, then dance on one of his arms] Never knew such bliss, never read of this in a book or plaaaaaay, what a lovely daaaaaay! What a great big gorgeous, sumptious, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scruptious!
[all fall off the scarecrow's arm, then fly vertically above then back down to the scarecrow's arm]
Crow Chorus: Oh my, oh my, what a haaaaap-py daaaaaay!
[all laugh]

Alternate versions
Edgar Bergen narrates the film in live-action sequences in the version featured in Fun and Fancy Free (1947). There exist two other versions of this short, each with a different narrator: Sterling Holloway in the first version and Paul Frees as Ludwig von Drake in the second.

Connections
Edited from Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

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Featured review

8/10

Very good

'Jack and the Beanstalk' is a very familiar story and the Disney adaptation is a delight to watch. It starts with an old duck and his little friend Hermann talking about fairy tales. The duck explains how 'Cinderella, 'Pinocchio', 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Snow White' were fairy tales and therefor the story and the characters were made up. With this talking we see the actual images from those Disney-movies.

Than the duck tells his own fairy tale version of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and we see Mickey, Donald and Goofy as the three Jacks climbing the beanstalk and meeting the giant. With lots of funny moments and nice things that can only happen with animation this is a another great movie from Disney. When that beanstalk goes up I was amazed by what I saw.