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Trick or Treat ()

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When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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Jack-O'lantern (uncredited)
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Hazel the Witch (uncredited)
James MacDonald ...
Beelzebub / Donald Duck (mule kick sounds) (uncredited)
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Donald Duck / Huey / Dewey / Louie (uncredited)

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Jack Hannah

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Ralph Wright ... (story)
 
Ted Osborne ... (character: Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck) (uncredited)
 
Al Taliaferro ... (character: Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck) (uncredited)

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Walt Disney ... producer (uncredited)

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Paul J. Smith ... (as Paul Smith)

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George Lowerre ... sound engineer (uncredited)

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Dan MacManus ... effects animator

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Yale Gracey ... background artist / layout artist
Volus Jones ... animator
Bill Justice ... animator
George Kreisl ... animator
Don Lusk ... animator
Bob Carlson ... animator (uncredited)
Al Coe ... animator (uncredited)
John Lounsbery ... Additional animator (uncredited)
Dan MacManus ... effects animator (uncredited)
Ken Walker ... animator (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

Donald's nephews come by for Halloween and Donald plays tricks on them. But Witch Hazel was watching, and offers to help the boys get even. She brews up a potion that animates inanimate objects and sics them on Donald. He initially agrees to treat the boys, until he hears the witch call him a "pushover". She animates his feet to get him to cough up the key to his pantry. Written by Jon Reeves

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Taglines Donald plays a trick on his nephews, but a witch helps them out. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Donald et la sorcière (France)
  • Truco o trato (Spain)
  • Golosina o jugarreta (Spain)
  • Karkki tai kepponen (Finland)
  • Viccet vagy csokit (Hungary)
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  • 8 min
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Trivia As its animators were working on this cartoon, the Disney studio asked its comic book unit to produce a special Halloween issue that would appear on newsstands as the short reached the big screen. Western Publishing duly sent storyboard stats to its star artist, asking him to draw a feature-length story similar to that of the cartoon. But Carl Barks "soon found that the material wouldn't fill the 32 pages that were then the length of a feature, so I ad-libbed some extra stuff", hammering out extensive additions and revisions. Some of his new material, however (including a spooky graveyard and a six-armed cyclops named Smorgie), were considered so dark, grisly, or bizarre that parts of the comic book had to be redrawn or were censored outright, and when "Trick or Treat" appeared in Donald Duck # 26 (November 1952), it had been shorn to 23 pages. See more »
Goofs The eyes of Dewey's costume are only shown as holes throughout most of the short until the very last shot of the nephews waving goodbye to Witch Hazel, then his eyes are shown peeking through the holes. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Disney's Haunted Halloween (1983). See more »
Soundtracks Trick or Treat See more »
Crazy Credits The title cards, including Donald's face usually shown over a sunburst background, are done in the style of painted graffiti on a fence. See more »
Quotes Hazel the Witch: Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two... This is the real thing, you know, right out of Shakespeare. NECK OF BOTTLE, TAIL OF COAT, AND... whiskers from a billy goat! *cackles*
Huey: [gives whiskers] There you are, Hazel.
Hazel the Witch: Yuck, repulsive...
[carefully drops whiskers into the brew]
[Hazel cackles as the cauldron magically erupts as it mixes]
Hazel the Witch: Delightfully gruesome reaction.
[Tastes the mix and does crazy things from the effects]
Hazel the Witch: [gurgles and bubbles] Kids, this stuff's loaded!
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