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A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring.A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring.A sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are competing again, this time mismatched in the boxing ring.
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Alyce Ardell
- Girl Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner
- Girl Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Eddie Holden
- Toby Tortoise
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Leone Le Doux
- Girl Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Ned Norton
- Max Hare
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Martha Wentworth
- Jenny Wren
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Wilfred Jackson(uncredited)
- Writers
- William Cottrell(uncredited)
- Joe Grant(uncredited)
- Ward Kimball(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaCharacters from other Silly Symphony cartoons appear in the audience. Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935), and Practical Pig from Three Little Pigs (1933) (as the bell ringer) are the most visible. Also appearing are Dirty Bill from The Robber Kitten (1935), Elmer and Tillie from Elmer Elephant (1936), the Harpo Marx bird from Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935), and Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig and the Big Bad Wolf from Three Little Pigs (1933). Goofy, Donald Duck and Horace Horsecollar also appear.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Mickey Mouse Club: Talent Round-Up Day - The Lennon Sisters (1956)
- SoundtracksThe Stars and Stripes Forever
Written by John Philip Sousa
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Disney's Tortoise Versus Hare, Round Two
A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.
TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS to compete once more with Max Hare, this time in the boxing ring. What's needed now is some fancy footwork, but all Toby has to offer is 'slow and steady'...
This little film, a follow-up to THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE (1935), is enjoyable & entertaining, but not on the same stylistic level as its Oscar-winning predecessor. Several characters from other SILLY SYMPHONIES make cameo appearances, including the Three Little Pigs and Jenny Wren.
The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.
TOBY TORTOISE RETURNS to compete once more with Max Hare, this time in the boxing ring. What's needed now is some fancy footwork, but all Toby has to offer is 'slow and steady'...
This little film, a follow-up to THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE (1935), is enjoyable & entertaining, but not on the same stylistic level as its Oscar-winning predecessor. Several characters from other SILLY SYMPHONIES make cameo appearances, including the Three Little Pigs and Jenny Wren.
The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.
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- Ron Oliver
- Oct 20, 2000
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) officially released in Canada in English?
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