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The Reluctant Dragon Overview:

The Reluctant Dragon (1941) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting (uncredited), Ub Iwerks (uncredited) and Jack Kinney (uncredited) and produced by Walt Disney.

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The Reluctant Dragon ( 1941 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 7, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were... Read full article

The Reluctant Dragon ( 1941 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 7, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were... Read full article

The Reluctant Dragon ( 1941 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Nov 7, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were... Read full article

O Dragão Relutante / The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

By Lê on Sep 18, 2015 From Critica Retro

O Dragão Relutante / The Reluctant Dragon (1941) Eu tinha seis anos de idade, talvez um pouco mais, e adorava as fitas de vídeo (sim, do tempo do VHS/VCR) da Disney. Cada fita vinha com algumas propagandas de outras fitas, verdadeiros trailers feitos especialmente para aqueles lançamentos ... Read full article

The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

on Mar 4, 2014 From Journeys in Classic Film

After devoting over a year and a half to reviewing every Disney animated film, I was ready to put Disney behind me, for awhile.  I recently became one-half of the Walt Sent Me podcast (available to listen to now) and our first featured film was The Reluctant Dragon.  The Reluctant Dragon isn&#8217... Read full article

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The Reluctant Dragon Quotes:

Sir Giles: Radish so red / Radish so red / Plucked from the heart of your warm little bed / Sprinkle some salt on the top of your head /
[eats radish]
Sir Giles: Delicious.
Sir Giles: Uh, the time has come, you know.
The Dragon: [clapping excitedly] You mean... I die now?
Sir Giles: Oh yes indeed. As per-agreed, we'll seal our pact, old thing.
[placing the lance under the Dragon's arm]
Sir Giles: Take that!
[Robert Benchley and his wife are driving to the Disney studio]
Robert Benchley: It's a wild goose chase, that's what it is. I don't imagine he's out here in the first place.
Mrs. Benchley: Where else would he be?
Robert Benchley: You know these movie producers; New York, Saratoga, Palm Beach...
Mrs. Benchley: Hollywood.
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The Reluctant Dragon Facts
When Robert Benchley visits the art department one of the sculptors quickly makes a clay bust caricature of Benchley. In reality the bust was made in advance and then gradually destroyed while being filmed. The film was simply shown backwards to make it appear as though the artist was making the bust from scratch.
Features How to Ride a Horse, the first of the Goofy "How-to" cartoons. When narrator John McLeish was brought in to record the narration, he was asked to read it in a very straightforward manner, as if for a serious documentary about horse riding. He was shocked when he was told that the narration he recorded would be used in a Goofy cartoon.
Film debut of John Dehner.
This is the first full-length feature for Disney where the voices are credited.
In the sound effects department the workers are creating sound effects for a piece of film with the train Casey Junior. Casey would pop up in Disney's next film, Dumbo. Likewise in the art department, the animators are making sketches for "Dumbo". Bambi also makes a minor appearance in this film, a year before Bambi was released.
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