Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito are portrayed as ducks taking over a barnyard.Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito are portrayed as ducks taking over a barnyard.Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito are portrayed as ducks taking over a barnyard.
- Director
- Writers
- Stars
Mel Blanc
- Hitler Duck
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Michael Maltese
- Mussolini Duck
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
John McLeish
- Narrator - Dove of Peace
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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We begin with the apprehensive Mr and Mrs Duck awaiting a birth. Out of the shell pops the world's first Nazi! Time flies and soon our newborn is daubing the place with swastikas and speechifying about taking over Europe and the World! He's soon joined by a dumb Italian goose who speaks in a dialogue of ice cream flavours and even the weather cock learns the salute! The dove of peace despairs, the treaty is soon confetti and the arrival of the third party to make a "silly axis" of himself completes the triumvirate of joke-worthy characters. The humour is sparse here and though we must remember it was made in 1942 as the USA was coming to terms with it's full engagement in WWII, a little more sophistication and less stereotyping might have made for a more entertaining and better standard of stand-up. We're socking it to them, though...
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Did you know
- TriviaThe title is a pun on the word "dictators".
- GoofsIn the opening shot, the weather vane shows W (West) counter-clockwise from S (South), when it should actually show E (East) in place of West or N (North) in place of South.
- Alternate versionsMost prints of this cartoon remove the final scene in which the solider on a War Bonds poster leaps from his wall and shoots at the Ducktators. We then see the Dove of Peace at home telling the story to his grandchildren...with the heads of the three Ducktators mounted above his fireplace. A "Buy War Bonds" title card is shown to end the cartoon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in ToonHeads: A ToonHeads Special: The Wartime Cartoons (2001)
- SoundtracksThe Japanese Sandman
(uncredited)
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Ray Egan
Sung with substitute lyrics by Japanese Duck
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- Looney Tunes #14 (1941-1942 Season): The Ducktators
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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