''Pluto's Judgement Day'' is a '' Mickey Mouse'' cartoon released theatrically in 1935. Although labeled a Mickey cartoon, the main star is

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. It was the 78th short film in the ''Mickey Mouse'' series to be released, the seventh of that year.

Plot

Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into

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's lap, causing a mess in Mickey's house. Mickey sternly scolds Pluto for his mean and nasty attitude towards cats, adding 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 Mickey's objections, and Pluto is lured into a trap where he is shackled and put on trial as the cats declare him " Public Enemy No. 1" for all his crimes against cats. All the cats Pluto tormented testify against him: a tubby kitten speaks of being flattened by a steamroller, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the

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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). Pluto is inevitably found guilty and is about to be burned alive at the stake 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.

Voice cast

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...

as Mickey Mouse *

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as Pluto *

Billy Bletcher William Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disne ...

as Cat Prosecutor *

Clarence Nash Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) was an American voice actor. He was best known as the original voice of the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck. He was born in the rural community of Watonga, Oklahoma, and ...

as the kitten & Cat Judge

Television

*c. 1977 – The Wonderful World of Disney episode #5: "

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" (TV)

Home media

The short was released on December 4, 2001, on '' Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color''.

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