The Phantom Ship
About The Phantom Ship
Beans flies his plane from New York toward a frozen galleon in the Arctic, not knowing his nephews Ham and Ex have stowed away. On the ship they meet a ghost, reversing stairs, and skeletons. Beans finds treasure and loads it, ignoring two frozen bodies that thaw into a captain and his mate. The pirates chase the three through the hull until a powder keg blasts Beans back to the plane and they fly off.
Cast & crew
More about The Phantom Ship
Jack King directed the black-and-white Looney Tune. Paul Smith and Don Williams animated it. Leon Schlesinger produced, and Bernard Brown is credited with the music. Warner Bros. and Vitaphone released it on February 1, 1936. Treg Brown edited.
Themes
Making
It is Beans's fourth starring cartoon and the second short to include his nephews Ham and Ex. King plays the ship as a string of traps: reversing stairs, a living hull, and a powder keg.
Music
Bernard Brown is credited with the music for this black-and-white Vitaphone cartoon.
Preservation
The cartoon survives as a released Looney Tunes short.
Notes
- It is the 64th Looney Tunes short.
- It is the fourth cartoon with Beans as the star and the second to include Ham and Ex.
- Ham and Ex are Beans's nephews and hide in the rear seats of the plane.
- The captain's peg leg sticks during the chase below decks.
Scenes
- Ham and Ex pop out of the plane after Beans lands by the frozen ship.
- Two corpses thaw into a captain and a mate when the cabin warms.
- A powder keg launches Beans into the reversing plane.
