Duck Pimples

Duck Pimples is a Donald Duck whodunit horror short film directed by Jack Kinney. Released on August 10, 1945, in the short Donald is literally enhanced by scary stories on the radio and in the books. The backgrounds abruptly change each time a new character appears in it, moves him into a seemingly real crime world, which ultimately turns out to be imaginary.

Directed by Jack Kinney. Written by Dick Shaw and Virgil Partch.

Donald Duck

  • [As Donald listened to the radio story, the armchair behind him turned to be a gorilla from his imaginary and screamed] YA! [He fled to the front door, a mysterious man appeared in front of the door].
  • [After the characters from the book returned, and after the radio voice's comment, Donald still in dazed] Yeah, uh-huh. IMAGINATION. Uh...

Radio voice

  • RELAX, just relax. Let your imagination go.
  • Really nothing there, is there? Well, possibly it was only YOUR imagination.

Dialogue

[first lines]

Radio Voice: RELAX, just relax. Let your imagination go. Now turn out the light. [Donald turned the lights off] Ah, there, that's better. My story begins: a woman speaks.

[a woman screams, Donald turned the lights back on, frightened]


Bookseller: [questioning] Are you Mr. D. Duck?
Donald Duck: [trembling] Y-yes, sir.
Bookseller: I've been lookin' for you. [revealing loads of horror novels and vulgar story books from inside his large coat]

Detective Hennessey: Now it's the pearls and the whole dame that's missing.
Donald Duck: WHAT DAME?!
Detective Hennessey: "What dame?" he's asking. [suddenly turns around behind him to embrace Pauline]
Detective Hennessey: Why, this dame. The dame whose pearls you snatched. [lets her go and then faces Donald again]
Detective Hennessey: Now are you gonna COUGH 'em up... [takes out a switchblade and presses the blade against Donald's throat]
Detective Hennessey: ... or am I gonna have to CUT 'em outta ya?

[last lines]

Radio Voice: [After the characters returned] Really nothing there, is there? Well, possibly it was only YOUR imagination.
Donald Duck: [dazed] Yeah, uh-huh. IMAGINATION. Uh... [Donald's neck wore a necklace with big white pearls from his imagination as the cartoon faded out].
Films   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (1937) · Pinocchio  (1940) · Fantasia  (1940) · Dumbo  (1941) · Bambi  (1942) · Saludos Amigos  (1943) · The Three Caballeros  (1944) · Make Mine Music  (1946) · Fun and Fancy Free  (1947) · Melody Time  (1948) · The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad  (1949) · Cinderella  (1950) · Alice in Wonderland  (1951) · Peter Pan  (1953) · Lady and the Tramp  (1955) · Sleeping Beauty  (1959) · One Hundred and One Dalmatians  (1961) · The Sword in the Stone  (1963) · The Jungle Book  (1967) · The Aristocats  (1970) · Robin Hood  (1973) · The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh  (1977) · The Rescuers  (1977) · The Fox and the Hound  (1981) · The Black Cauldron  (1985) · The Great Mouse Detective  (1986) · Oliver & Company  (1988) · The Little Mermaid  (1989) · The Rescuers Down Under  (1990) · Beauty and the Beast  (1991) · Aladdin  (1992) · The Lion King  (1994) · Pocahontas  (1995) · The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (1996) · Hercules  (1997) · Mulan  (1998) · Tarzan  (1999) · Fantasia 2000  (1999) · Dinosaur  (2000) · The Emperor's New Groove  (2000) · Atlantis: The Lost Empire  (2001) · Lilo & Stitch  (2002) · Treasure Planet  (2002) · Brother Bear  (2003) · Home on the Range  (2004) · Chicken Little  (2005) · Meet the Robinsons  (2007) · Bolt  (2008) · The Princess and the Frog  (2009) · Tangled  (2010) · Winnie the Pooh  (2011) · Wreck-It Ralph  (2012) · Frozen  (2013) · Big Hero 6  (2014) · Zootopia  (2016) · Moana  (2016) · Ralph Breaks the Internet  (2018) · Frozen II  (2019) · Raya and the Last Dragon  (2021) · Encanto  (2021) · Strange World  (2022) · Wish  (2023) · Moana 2  (2024)  
Shorts   Three Little Pigs  (1933) · The Flying Mouse  (1934) · The Tortoise and the Hare  (1935) · Ferdinand the Bull  (1938) · The Ugly Duckling  (1939) · Chicken Little  (1943) · Contrary Condor  (1944) ·  (1945) · The Wind in the Willows  (1949) · Lambert the Sheepish Lion  (1952) · Donald in Mathmagic Land  (1959) · Goliath II  (1960) · Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree  (1966) · Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day  (1968) · Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too  (1974) · Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore  (1983) · Runaway Brain  (1995) · Once Upon a Studio  (2023)