Alice's Wild West Show
About Alice's Wild West Show
Alice puts on a Wild West show for the neighborhood until Tubby O'Brien and his gang take the front row and the other children quit. She invents the acts on the spot. In the cartoon she fights on the plains, then plays a cigar-smoking sheriff while Wild Bill Hiccup steals the safe during a bad 'Sweet Adeline.' She chases him by car and brings the safe back. The bullies throw vegetables, and she throws Tubby out herself.
Cast & crew
More about Alice's Wild West Show
Tommy Hicks plays Tubby O'Brien opposite Virginia Davis. M.J. Winkler is the producer on the Silent Era listing, which does not put a question mark on that credit, and Winkler also distributed it states-rights. The Internet Animation Database credits the animation to Walt Disney and Ham Hamilton.
Themes
Making
The live children play the backyard theater. The plains fight and the saloon are the drawn stories Alice tells after her cast walks out.
Music
Silent. No sound reissue is listed for this short on the Alice Comedies filmography.
Preservation
Silent Era: print exists; public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Ham Hamilton is Rollin Hamilton, billed that way on the animation credit.
- The saloon villain's name is Wild Bill Hiccup.
- A print exists, and Silent Era lists US public-domain status.
- The Alice Comedies filmography includes it in Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts, 1920s–1960s.
Scenes
- The other children quit when Tubby's gang sits down front.
- Wild Bill Hiccup grabs the safe during 'Sweet Adeline.'
- Alice chases the bullies out and beats Tubby herself.
Also available
- Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts, 1920s–1960s
