Great Guns

1927 AnimationComedy 6 minutes Directed by Walt Disney

About Great Guns

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit volunteers when his country goes to war and lands in the trenches. A short fight wounds him. In the field hospital he finds his girlfriend working. Walt Disney directed the cartoon. It is the fourth Oswald short.

Cast & crew

More about Great Guns

Disney produced it for Winkler. Universal reissued it in 1932. First released October 17, 1927. A copy is on the Internet Archive as OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInGreatGuns. The title on the print is often Great Guns!

Themes

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • Winkler made it. Universal's 1932 release is a reissue.
  • The hospital nurse is the girlfriend from home.
  • It is a parody of silent war pictures, not a newsreel.
  • Disney still had Oswald. The rabbit moved to Walter Lantz later.

Scenes

  • Oswald goes into the trench and comes out wounded.
  • He wakes in a hospital where his girlfriend is working.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInGreatGuns)