Pluto's Judgement Day

{{Infobox film

| name = Pluto's Judgement Day

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| director = David Hand

| producer = Walt Disney

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| starring = Don Brodie
Pinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Lee Millar
Clarence Nash
Billy Bletcher{{Cite web |title=Billy Bletcher |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Billy-Bletcher/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Cat Prosecutor |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/shorts/Mickey-Mouse/Cat-Prosecutor/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
The Rhythmettes
Billy Sheets{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}
Homer Hall male quartet

| music = Frank Churchill
Leigh Harline

| animator = Dick Lundy
Hamilton Luske
Fred Moore
Bill Roberts
Bob Wickersham
Clyde Geronimi
Ward Kimball
Hardie Gramatky{{Cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-plutos-judgement-day-1935/|title = Disney's "Pluto's Judgement Day" (1935) |}}

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| studio = Walt Disney Productions

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{film date|1935|08|31}}{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=J.B. |last2=Gerstein |first2=David |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History |date=2018 |publisher=Taschen |location=Cologne |isbn=978-3-8365-5284-4}}

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 8 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Pluto's Judgement Day is a Mickey Mouse dark comedy horror cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star is Pluto.{{cite web|title=Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)|date=31 August 1935|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026872/|publisher=IMDb|access-date=August 4, 2014}} It was the 78th short film in the Mickey Mouse series to be released, the seventh of that year.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/108/mode/2up |pages=108–109}}

Plot

Pluto chases a kitten through the forest, a mud puddle, a window, and right into Mickey's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey angrily scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty attitude towards cats, warning him that he will have "plenty to answer for on (his) judgement day" if he keeps this up. Mickey then goes off to wash the kitten while Pluto falls asleep in front of the fireplace.

While asleep, a phantom cat goads Pluto into chasing him, over a hallucinatory Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a forest of evil cat-like trees, and a cat head-shaped mountain trap, where he slides down into a pit, where shackles magically chain him and he is put on trial as the cats declare him "Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats, whom Pluto has ever tormented, testify against him: A tubby cat speaks of being picked on and chased by Pluto because he (the cat) was fat and was flattened by a steamroller while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the post-traumatic stress disorder which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three young blackface kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned their Uncle Tom (as Tom's nine ghosts briefly appear) in a river. Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive by being tied in a seat and lowered into flames by the angry cats, when he wakes up after a hot cinder from the fireplace strikes his rear. Pluto rushes off into the tub to ease the burn, and Mickey, washing the kitten, urges the two to make up, which each one readily does much to Mickey's delight.

Voice cast

Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse{{Cite web |title=Walt Disney |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Walt-Disney/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Lee Millar as Pluto{{Cite web |title=Lee Millar |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Lee-Millar/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Pluto |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/shorts/Mickey-Mouse/Pluto/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Pinto Colvig as Cat Doctor{{Cite web |title=Pinto Colvig |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Pinto-Colvig/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Cat Doctor |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/shorts/Mickey-Mouse/Cat-Doctor/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Billy Bletcher as Cat Prosecutor
Clarence Nash as the kitten and Cat Victim #2 and Cat Judge and Cat Jury{{Cite web |title=Clarence |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Clarence-Nash/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Cat Judge |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/shorts/Mickey-Mouse/Cat-Judge/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Billy Sheets as Cat Jury
Don Brodie as Dream Cat and Cat Victim #1{{Cite web |title=Don Brodie |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Don-Brodie/ |website=Behind The Voice Actors |access-date=4 May 2025}}
Homer Hall male quartet as Cat Jury and Uncle Tom's ghosts
The Rhythmettes as singing kittens

Television

c. 1977 – The Wonderful World of Disney, episode #5: "Halloween Hall o' Fame" (TV)

Home media

The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.{{cite web |title=Mickey Mouse in Living Color DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/mmlivingcolor.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}}