Characters & Themes
Tugboat Mickey (1940) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1940 · 7 mins · English
- Directed by
- Clyde Geronimi
- Starring
- Danny Webb, Clarence Nash, Walt Disney
Mickey captains a tugboat with Donald and Goofy as his crew. During maintenance a pelican distracts them before a radio call warns of a sinking ship. Their effort to depart has Goofy wrestling a boiler door and over‑feeding coal, Donald tangled in gears, and the tug dragging the dock because they never cast off, ending with the boiler exploding.
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