Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935 film)
A Silly Symphonies short based on the nursery rhyme.
Released by United Artists, it earned an Oscar nomination but lost to another Disney film. The following year, Alfred Hitchcock included a clip in Sabotage, with the film's credits thanking Disney for the permission.
Quick Facts
- Director
- David Hand
- Story
- William Cottrell
- Joe Grant
- Bob Kuwahara
- Music
- Frank Churchill
- Producer
- Walt Disney
- Studio
- Walt Disney Productions
- Distributor
- United Artists
- Released
- 26 June 1935
- Runtime
- 8 minutes
Facts from the source article.
Plot
Cock Robin serenades Jenny Wren when an unseen archer shoots an arrow into his heart. He falls to the ground, leading the other birds to believe he has been killed. Police arrive and apprehend a cuckoo, a sparrow, and a blackbird as suspects. The next day, a trial is held with an owl as judge and a parrot as prosecutor.
The blackbird confesses he has not done, seen, or known anything; the sparrow refuses to speak; the cuckoo points to the judge, prosecutor, and himself, showing he is cuckoo. Nobody knows who killed Cock Robin. Jenny Wren arrives and demands justice. The judge declares all three suspects shall be hanged because he does not know which is guilty.
Another arrow strikes the judge's hat, and its owner, Cupid, reveals he shot Cock Robin, but Robin is not dead—he simply fell for Jenny Wren and was unconscious from landing on his head, the arrow in his armpit. Jenny Wren revives Cock Robin, and they kiss to the jury's excitement.
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