![]() ![]() A final message invites the audience to express their patriotism by buying state bonds. ![]() The Dove is then seen relating the tale to his two children, Peace and Quiet, while proudly displaying the battered heads of his enemies as trophies mounted above his fireplace. The Dove violently retaliates and saves the day with the aid of many chickens, and the (somehow) rescued baby chick, and a rabbit that is a send-up of Jerry Colonna (possibly a caricature of Joseph Stalin) as Hitler, Benito, and Hideki run for their lives and a Minuteman promptly emerges from a poster that says "For Victory, Buy United States Victory Bonds" and fires his musket at the fleeing trio. The Dove attempts to reason with them, but they ignore and trample him. With their troops, Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo set out toward their planned conquest of the farm. The turtle sarcastically replies that he is " mock turtle soup" and continues attacking Tojo with the sign. However, it is revealed that the "island" is a turtle that emerges, sees what has been placed on his shell and subsequently attacks Tojo, this 'Ducktator' vainly attempts to pass himself off as Chinese. During his voyage across the sea, he absentmindedly plants a sign reading " Japanese Mandate Island" on what he thinks is an island and flees. Meanwhile, an odd Japanese duck, Hideki Tojo, travels to the farm to support Hitler and Mussolini and "to make a silly Axis of himself". A peace conference is held between the ducks and geese, but the unstable Hitler puts the peace treaty through a paper shredder and instigates a furious brawl. ![]() Hitler's stormtroopers surround the farm while a Dove of Peace, observing from above, weeps in anticipation of the upcoming violence. His only ally is a large black Neapolitan-accented goose, Benito Mussolini, who promotes his own warmongering rhetoric to a solitary chick who is forced to attend and applaud. Hitler's adulthood is spent giving aggressive speeches toward the other ducks and geese. A white duckling with a toothbrush mustache, Adolf Hitler, emerges from the egg and immediately shouts " Sieg Heil!" while giving the Nazi salute. The title is a pun on dictator.Ī pair of farm ducks anticipate the hatching of their duckling from an unusually black-colored egg. The short was released on August 1, 1942, and satirizes events of World War II. Looney Tunes short directed by Norman McCabe. ![]()
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