Three Blind Mouseketeers

1936 American film

Dave Hand
Jack Cutting

Written by

Webb Smith
Merrill de Maris
Otto Englander

Produced byWalt DisneyStarring

Billy Bletcher
(Captain Katt)

Music byAlbert Hay Malotte

Production
company

Walt Disney Productions

Distributed byUnited Artists

Release date

September 26, 1936 (1936-09-26)

Running time

8 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice and the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy Bletcher.^[1]

Plot

The three blind mice are disguised as musketeers in a cellar. Captain Cat (the devious cat) sets a number of traps for the mice and goes to sleep. The mice come out to search for food, avoiding all the traps. When they uncork three bottles of wine, the corks hit Captain Cat on the nose. Captain Cat wakes up and starts chasing the mice, only ending up trapping one mouse, who starts asking for help from the other two mice reflecting on numerous bottles. Captain Cat thinks he is surrounded by mice and runs away, falling into a multitude of traps that he has prepared himself.

Voice cast

Tall Mouseketeer: Pinto Colvig
Captain Katt: Billy Bletcher
Other two Mouseketeers: Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney

Syndication

The cartoon was aired on Good Morning, Mickey! on the Disney Channel.

Home media

The short has been released on home media several times. The first time was on a VHS release in 1985 on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938, then in the UK on VHS on Storybook Favourites Shorts: Three Little Pigs.

Its first DVD release was in 2003 on The Rescuers, followed on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.^[1] It was also released on Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 2: Three Little Pigs in 2009 and on The Rescuers 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under) in 2012.

References

^ ^a ^b Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.

External links

Three Blind Mouseketeers at IMDb
The cartoon on YouTube
The encyclopedia of Disney animated shorts

The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Characters

Films

The Three
Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1916)
Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1932)
The Three Musketeers (1933)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1942)
The Three Musketeers (1946)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Blades of the Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1953)
The Three Musketeers (1961)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Musketeer (2001)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
3 Musketeers (2011)
The Three Musketeers (2013)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

Twenty Years
After

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992)

The Vicomte of
Bragelonne

The Iron Mask (1929)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Uthama Puthiran (1940)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
The Count of Bragelonne (1954)
The King's Prisoner (1954)
Uthama Puthiran (1958)
Le Masque de fer (1962)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Other sequels

At Sword's Point (1952)
The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)
Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009)

Animated

The Four Musketeers (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Three Musketeers (1974) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)
Tom and Jerry	The Two Mouseketeers Touché, Pussy Cat! Tom and Chérie Royal Cat Nap

Television

Series

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1966) The Mind Robber (1968) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) Young Blades (2005) The Three Musketeers (2009–10) (puppetry) The Musketeers (2014)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1968) Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981) The Three Musketeers Anime (1987–89) The Return of Dogtanian (1989) Albert the Fifth Musketeer (1993–94)

Films

Live-action	The Three Musketeers (1959) The Three Musketeers (1969) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Animated	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Man in the Iron Mask (1985) Dogtanian: Special (1985) The Three Musketeers (1986) Dogtanian: One For All and All For One (1995)

Games

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
The Three Musketeers (1987 video game)
The Three Musketeers (2006 video game)
The Three Musketeers: One for All!

Musicals

The Three Musketeers (1928)
3 Musketiers

Other
adaptations

The Three Mesquiteers Dog in Boots The Three Must-Get-Theres The Three Mouseketeers (comics) The Three Musketeers (South Korean adaptation) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (video game)
Khaavren Romances	The Phoenix Guards Five Hundred Years After The Viscount of Adrilankha The Baron of Magister Valley

v t e Silly Symphony film series
1929	The Skeleton Dance El Terrible Toreador Springtime Hell's Bells The Merry Dwarfs
1930	Summer Autumn Cannibal Capers Frolicking Fish Arctic Antics Midnight in a Toy Shop Night Monkey Melodies Winter Playful Pan
1931	Birds of a Feather Mother Goose Melodies The China Plate The Busy Beavers The Cat's Out Egyptian Melodies The Clock Store The Spider and the Fly The Fox Hunt The Ugly Duckling
1932	The Bird Store The Bears and the Bees Just Dogs Flowers and Trees King Neptune Bugs in Love Babes in the Woods Santa's Workshop
1933	Birds in the Spring Father Noah's Ark Three Little Pigs Old King Cole Lullaby Land The Pied Piper The Night Before Christmas
1934	The China Shop The Grasshopper and the Ants Funny Little Bunnies The Big Bad Wolf The Wise Little Hen The Flying Mouse Peculiar Penguins The Goddess of Spring
1935	The Tortoise and the Hare The Golden Touch The Robber Kitten Water Babies The Cookie Carnival Who Killed Cock Robin? Music Land Three Orphan Kittens Cock o' the Walk Broken Toys
1936	Elmer Elephant Three Little Wolves Toby Tortoise Returns Three Blind Mouseketeers The Country Cousin Mother Pluto More Kittens
1937	Woodland Café Little Hiawatha The Old Mill
1938	Moth and the Flame Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Farmyard Symphony Merbabies Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
1939	The Practical Pig The Ugly Duckling
Related	Donald Duck Comic strip Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Bucky Bug "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" The Thrifty Pig Mickey Mouse Works Once Upon a Studio
Category

v t e Films directed by David Hand
Building a Building (1933) The Mad Doctor (1933) Birds in the Spring (1933) The Mail Pilot (1933) Old King Cole (1933) Camping Out (1934) Mickey's Steam Roller (1934) The Flying Mouse (1934) The Dognapper (1934) Mickey's Man Friday (1935) Mickey's Kangaroo (1935) The Robber Kitten (1935) Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935) Pluto's Judgement Day (1935) Three Orphan Kittens (1935) Mickey's Polo Team (1936) Three Little Wolves (1936) Thru the Mirror (1936) Alpine Climbers (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) Mickey's Elephant (1936) The Country Cousin (1936) Mother Pluto (1936) More Kittens (1936) Magician Mickey (1937) Little Hiawatha (1937) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Moth and the Flame (1938) The Whalers (1938) Fantasia (1940) Bambi (1942) Mickey Mouse Disco (1980)

Films directed by David Hand