The Ugly Duckling

7
Date

1939-04-07

Country

US

Runtime

0.15h

Genre

Animation

Overview

An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.

Cast

Clarence Nash
Ducks (voice) (uncredited)

Review

By CinemaSerf

There is something really quite touching about this Disneyfication of the timeless Hans Christian Andersen story. We start with the expectant parents awaiting their fifth chick. It's born but clearly isn't the same as the others and it's promptly rejected. Abandoned to fend for itself, it tries to make friends but everything is new and unfamiliar. Then, fortune smiles and ... Andersen's fables always did have a valid moral underpinning them and this one seems all the more ripe for a sensitively scored and delicately drawn version that has, mercifully, been spared the traditional singing accompaniment. It's surprisingly effective, this.


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