Dude Duck

Dude Duck
Dude Duck
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack Hannah
Story by	Ralph Wright ; Riley Thomson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Clarence Nash
Music by	Paul Smith
Animation by	Al Bertino ; Bob Carlson; Volus Jones ; Bill Justice ; Phyllis Barnhart (cel painter); Jack Boyd (effects)
Layouts by	Yale Gracey
Backgrounds by	Art Riley
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	March 2, 1951;
Running time	7:14
Country	United States
Language	English

Last updated April 17, 2025

Dude Duck is a 1951 American animated short film featuring Donald Duck, directed by Jack Hannah and produced by Walt Disney.^[2] In the short film, Donald goes on vacation to a dude ranch and gets a totally uncooperative horse as a mount.

Plot

Donald is vacationing at a dude ranch. After all the beautiful women pick the best horses, Donald ends up with the sad-sack Rover Boy, who wants nothing to do with him.

Voice cast

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Rover Boy

Re-release

The short was re-released with DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp on August 3, 1990.

Television

Disneyland, episode #2.22: "On Vacation" (1954)
Good Morning, Mickey, episode #1 (1983)
Vacationing With Mickey and Friends (1984)
Donald Takes a Holiday (1986)
Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup (1990)
Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #1 (1992)
Donald's Quack Attack, episode #22 (1992)
The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.30: "'50s Donald" (1997)

Home media

The short was released on November 11, 2008, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four: 1951-1961 .^[3]

Additional releases include:

On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends (VHS)

References

↑ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2024). Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History. Taschen. p. 442. ISBN 978-3-8365-5280-6.
↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
↑ "The Chronological Donald Volume 4 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 13, 2021.

External links

Dude Duck at IMDb
Dude Duck at The Internet Animation Database
Dude Duck on Filmaffinity

This article about a Disney animated film of the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2024). Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History. Taschen. p. 442. ISBN 978-3-8365-5280-6.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.

[3] "The Chronological Donald Volume 4 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 13, 2021.

[1]

[2]

[3]