"Don Quixote" is one of those Celebrity Productions Comicolor cartoons, which must have been a big deal back in the 1930s (seeing bold colors on screen). seen! They liked to take a famous novel and make a wild-and-crazy cartoon out of it. Usually, the results were entertaining....even today these sight gags hold up to be pretty inventive.
I mean, where else but a cartoon - even one 75 years old - are going to see a windmill come to life and give a man a spanking? That kind of outrageous scene fills this eight-plus minutes of mayhem and silly humor. A lot of crazy sights are objects turning into something else here: a dragon becoming a huge earth-moving tractor, is another example.
This story has NO resemblance to famous Don Quixote story. You kind of know that when Quixote swings on vines and gives out Tarzan yells after escaping from a mental institution. It's pure lunacy.....but that makes it fun.
The ending to this story is very original, and sexist in a way. Both the hero and villain meet up at the same time to rescue the "girl" but she turns out to be some ugly older woman. The two guys then high-tail it out of the castle and run back to "Ye Olde Bughouse" and lock themselves back in the padded room!
I mean, where else but a cartoon - even one 75 years old - are going to see a windmill come to life and give a man a spanking? That kind of outrageous scene fills this eight-plus minutes of mayhem and silly humor. A lot of crazy sights are objects turning into something else here: a dragon becoming a huge earth-moving tractor, is another example.
This story has NO resemblance to famous Don Quixote story. You kind of know that when Quixote swings on vines and gives out Tarzan yells after escaping from a mental institution. It's pure lunacy.....but that makes it fun.
The ending to this story is very original, and sexist in a way. Both the hero and villain meet up at the same time to rescue the "girl" but she turns out to be some ugly older woman. The two guys then high-tail it out of the castle and run back to "Ye Olde Bughouse" and lock themselves back in the padded room!