theowinthrop Review of The Ducktators

The Ducktators (1942)

The Three Axis Leaders - told Warner's Cartoon style

[7/10 · 25 April 2007]

An occasionally amusing World War II Warner's propaganda cartoon, THE DUCKTATORS tried to explain how a farm is taken over by Hitler, Mussolini, and a Japanese caricatured duck (Hirohito or Yamamoto or Tojo) and turned into an Axis haven (complete with storm troopers - who only march in stormy weather, according to the cartoon, and a secret police called "the Gestinko"). The Hitler duck signs a peace treaty (similar to Munich) which he puts into a shredder as soon as it is signed). The troublemakers are finally overthrown when the dove of peace gets fed up (when the Axis leaders march over him on a road) and beats the hell out of them. The cartoon ends with a reference to Jerry Colonna, the Italian-American comedian who worked usually with Bob Hope. Not the best but interesting, especially when the Japanese duck, trying to avoid anger from a victim, claims to be Chinese.