The Reluctant Dragon

Based On the book by Kenneth Grahame

The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American live-action/animated anthology comedy film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941. Essentially a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California, the film stars Algonquin Round Table member, film actor, writer and comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all as themselves. The first twenty minutes of the film is in black-and-white, and the remainder is in Technicolor. Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo; and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems (presented as a storyboard), Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame's short story of the same name.

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Release date:

June 20, 1941

Director:

Hamilton Luske, Alfred L. Werker, Jim Handley

Cast:

Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Nana Bryant, Clarence Nash, Florence Gill

Genre:

Anthology

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1941 in adaptations