Hobo Donald steals dinner off Pegleg Pete's table. Pete gives Donald a stick of dynamite. Then he puts Donald to work chopping trees. To say Donald is an inept lumberjack is understating the case. After several mishaps, Pete/Pierre chases Donald on railroad handcars.
Sound
Clarence Nash's unintelligible Donald screams: ASMR for masochists.
Director
Jack King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank Tashlin directed this before becoming famous for live-action comedies like The Girl Can't Help It—his cartoon timing translated perfectly.
The 'hobo' trope here reflects 1930s-40s Depression-era imagery already becoming nostalgic by 1941, even as real economic instability persisted.
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