''Pluto's Judgement Day'' is a ''

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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

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through the forest, a mud puddle, a window, and right into

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'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)

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" 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

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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

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s 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

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while running away from Pluto, a psychiatric patient is wheeled out to demonstrate the

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which he developed from Pluto's barking, and three young

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kittens sing of how Pluto stole their meals and drowned their

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(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

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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

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as Mickey Mouse *

Lee Millar Lee Carson Millar Sr. (February 20, 1888 – December 24, 1941) was an American voice actor for animated films and radio programs. He also appeared on stage. He voiced Pluto in various Disney animated films and had other film voice roles. Millar w ...

as Pluto *

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as Cat Doctor *

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 Di ...

as Cat Prosecutor *

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as the kitten and Cat Victim #2 and Cat Judge and Cat Jury * Billy Sheets as Cat Jury *

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as Dream Cat and Cat Victim #1 * Homer Hall male quartet as Cat Jury and Uncle Tom's ghosts *

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as singing kittens

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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