The Tears of an Onion (1938)

1938 · Animation · 7 min · dir. Dave Fleischer

• Romance
• Animation
• Comedy

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Synopsis

One of the poorer of the Fleischer Brothers' cartoons, this suffers from a hackneyed plot -- no one likes the hero because of something that he is not responsible for (in this case, being a smelly onion) until it turns out that they need him (in this case, various fruits and vegetables) for rescue from an evil menace (in this case a caterpillar that looks a lot like a dragon from a Betty Boop cartoon half a decade earlier). Then joy and acceptance: now they like him because the caterpillar…

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Details

Director

Dave Fleischer

Studio

Fleischer Studios

Released

1938-02-26

Running time

7 minutes

Cast & crew

• Dave Fleischer Director
• Jack Mercer
• Mae Questel

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