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| Mickey the Dective | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Starring | Mickey Rooney Jimmy Robinson Marvin Stephens Buddy Brown Kendall McComas |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Mickey the Detective is a 1928 silent short film in Larry Darmour's Mickey McGuire series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters in 1928 by Universal Pictures.
Plot
Mickey and the Scorpions starts his own detective agency. Stinkie Davis kidnaps Mickey's Kid Brudder and hides him in a box headed for a science professor. Mickey and the gang catch up with Mickey's brother, but soon get into a fight with Stinkie and his pals. The kids use some of the Professor's bombs as ammunition; these bombs just so happen to contain chemicals similar to laughing gas, and they literally make the kids high as a kite. Stinkie finally throws a high explosive bomb, which lands in the mouth of Buster, the Scorpions' dog. The bomb is set to go off at a certain time of the day. Wanting to avoid getting blown up, the kids are forced to avoid Buster at all costs.
Cast
- Mickey Rooney - Mickey McGuire
- Jimmy Robinson - Hambone Johnson
- Delia Bogard - Tomboy Taylor
- Marvin Stephens - Katrink
- Buddy Brown - Stinkie Davis
- Kendall McComas - Scorpions member
Alternate version
An edited version was released to television in the 1960s as a part of the Those Lovable Scallawags With Their Gangs series.
Production
This was one of the few Mickey McGuire shorts without Jimmy Robinson. Another kid takes over for the role of 'Hambone'.
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- 1928 films
- 1928 comedy films
- 1928 short films
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American comedy short films
- Mickey McGuire short film series
- Silent American comedy short films
- Surviving American silent films
- English-language comedy short films
- Short silent comedy film stubs