The Three Caballeros

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The Three Caballeros
Directed by Norman Ferguson
Clyde Geronimi
Jack Kinney
Bill Roberts
Written by James Bodrero
Homer Brightman
Del Connell
William Cottrell
Bill Peet
Elmer Plummer
Ted Sears
Ernest Terrazzas
Roy Williams
Ralph Wright
Starring Clarence Nash
José Oliviera
Joaquin Garay
Aurora Miranda
Carmen Molina
Dora Luz
Sterling Holloway
Frank Graham
Fred Shields
Nestor Amarale
Almirante
Trío Calaveras
Trío Ascencio del Río
Pinto Colvig
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s) February 3, 1945
Running time 70 minutes
Language English and Spanish
Preceded by Saludos Amigos (1942)
Followed by Make Mine Music (1946)
IMDb profile

The Three Caballeros is the seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was released in 1944, made and produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. A sequel to 1942's Saludos Amigos, the film is an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and animation.

Produced as part of the studio's goodwill message for South America, but less obviously propagandistic, the film again starred Donald Duck, who in the course of the film is joined by his old friend Jose Carioca, the cigar-smoking parrot from Saludos Amigos representing Brazil, and later makes a new friend in the persona of pistol-packin' rooster Panchito Pistoles, representing Mexico.

Several Latin American stars of the period appear, including singers Aurora Miranda (sister of Carmen Miranda) and Dora Luz, as well as dancer Carmen Molina.

The film is plotted as a series of self-contained segments, strung together by the device of Donald Duck opening gifts from his Latin American friends.

The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the USA on February 3, 1945.

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[edit] Film segments

The film's segments include:

  • The Cold-Blooded Penguin involved a penguin named Pablo, who is so fed up with the freezing conditions of the South Pole that he decides to leave for warmer climates.
  • The Flying Gauchito involved the adventures of a little boy from Uruguay and his winged donkey.
  • Bahia involved a pop-up book trip through [São] Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahía, as Donald Duck and José Carioca meet up with some of the locals who dance an interesting samba and Donald starts pining for the females in the group.
  • Las Posadas was the story of a group of Mexican children who celebrated Christmas by re-enacting the journey of Mary and Joseph searching for room at the inn. "Posada" means "inn", and they are told "no posada" at each house until they come to one where they are offered shelter in a stable. This leads to festivities including the breaking of the piñata, which in turn leads to Donald Duck trying to break the piñata as well.

[edit] Titles in different languages

  • Chinese: 三骑士
  • Dutch: De Drie Caballeros
  • Finnish: 3 Caballeroa
  • French: Les Trois Caballeros
  • German: Die Drei Caballeros (also Donald Erobert Mexico)
  • Italian: I Tre Caballeros
  • Maltese: It-Tliet Kaballeros
  • Portuguese: in Brazil: Você já foi à Bahia? ("Have you ever been to Bahia") (also "Os Três Caballeros"), in Portugal: A Caixinha das Surpresas ("The little box of surprises")
  • Russian: Три кабальеро
  • Serbian: Три кабаљероса
  • Spanish: Los Tres Caballeros
  • Swedish: Tre caballeros (also Kalle Anka i Sydamerika)

[edit] Trivia

  • Don Rosa liked The Three Caballeros so much that he made a sequel to the comics adaptation of the movie. [1]
  • The song "You Belong To My Heart" was featured in a Disney short called Pluto's Blue Note (1947). It was later recorded by Bing Crosby. The songs "Baia" and the title song became popular hit tunes in the 1940s.
  • Clarence Nash also provides the voice of Donald Duck in the Spanish-dubbed version.
  • Some clips from this film were used in the "Welcome to Rio" portion of the Mickey Mouse Disco music video.

[edit] Cast

2000 VHS cover of The Three Caballeros.
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2000 VHS cover of The Three Caballeros.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) 
Upcoming:  Meet the Robinsons (2007) • American Dog (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Frog Princess (20??)
Live-action films with animation

The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 
Upcoming:  Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToons Studio animated features

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other theatrical animated features

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) 
See also: Pixar
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