As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.
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- Adolf Hitler
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So he flies from Berlin to Moscow by airplane. But little does he know is that little invaders are taring his plane apart. And those invaders are Gremlins from the Kremlin!.
These little guys sing and tor mechanical stuff apart with pleasure.
And they even pull a few pranks on Hitler himself.
Will these Gremlins be able to prevent Hitler from bombing Moscow? Well you try to guess that when you see this cartoon.
This cartoon was originally titled "Gremlins from the Kremlim" but due to Disney and Warner Bros both wanting to do their own cartoon about Gremlins. They had to change the title that doesn't have the word Gremlin in it.
It's a good WW2 short. Also be on the look out for 9 Gremlins that resemble the producers, writers, and creators behind the Looney Tunes.
Good luck in finding this short by internet search cause it's hard to tell when it'll ever be released on DVD.
This short animation story is really silly and not that fun either. It's even pretty boring. I've seen so many better propaganda films from that era; you can stop your efforts to track this one down if you'd ask me: go for a movie like 'Education For Death' instead.
4/10.
So maybe this was why I never saw this toon air on my television during my youth years. Yet I recently caught it and *shocker* enjoyed it! Mel Blanc did an amusing job imitating Hitler plus the Gremlin theme song is pretty catchy! Along with the energetic directing by Bob Clampet (Nearly all of his toons had some anarchy in them) and the familiar faces of Warner Bros. animators & execs, put on the bodies of the gremlins,make this cartoon memorable.
It's best to watch it with an open mind,forget what Hitler stood for, and enjoy watching the "Gremlins from der Kremlin" .
I should say that this isn't the best Looney Tunes cartoon. Far from it. But I just like that there was one cartoon that portrayed Russians positively.
Did you know
- TriviaIn the early 1940s Walt Disney was developing a feature film based on Roald Dahl's book "Gremlin Lore", and asked the other studios to refrain from producing Gremlin films. While most of the studios complied, Warner Bros. already had two cartoons too far into production - Lapin et Lutin (1943) and this cartoon. As a compromise, Leon Schlesinger retitled the cartoons to remove any reference to gremlins. The original title was Gremlins From the Kremlin.
- Quotes
Adolf Hitler: [shouting] Stoupnegel Hamburger mit der Frankfurter und der Sauerbraten! Mit der Zoot Suit, mit der reet pleat, zoot!
[crowd cheers]
Adolf Hitler: Schtunk Friz Frelenk, mit der Heinrich Binder, und der 'What's Cookin' Doc'! Pumpernickel mit Sauerkrauten from der Delicatessen, mit Liverwurst, Hassenpfeffer, und der Chattanooga Choo-Choo! Gesundheit!
[Crowd gasps]
Adolf Hitler: Ve vill bomben der Moskau, bomben Schtalin, bomben that Irish general Timoshenko!
[Adolf sobbing]
Adolf Hitler: Shenko... To bomb Moskau, I will send the best pilot in the Reich-ch-ch! The greatest superman of all times!
Man in the Crowd: Who's that? You, Fuhrer?
Adolf Hitler: Hm, eh-h-h-h, who else?
- Alternate versionsFootage is obviously missing between when the gremlins hit Adolf on the head with a mallet and when a circle is cut around him by a gremlin so he falls out of the plane.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons (1989)
- SoundtracksSong of the Volga Boatman
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- 7m
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- 1.37 : 1