The Wreck of the Hesperus (1944)
[For the month of September 2016, I am writing a series of shared posts in conjunction with my animation blog, Cinema 4: Cel Bloc , about cartoons that feature sharks in them. You can read the reviews on either site, but please do visit the other one if you like the content I have to offer.] The Wreck of the Hesperus (1944) Dir.: Mannie Davis TC4P Rating: 6/9 Species: cartoon sharks, a small but very hungry pack of them. Sharks versus Mighty Mouse? Say it IS so! It is! The 1944 short, The Wreck of the Hesperus , was the eighth Mighty Mouse short churned out by the Terrytoons studio from October of 1942 through December of 1961. When I say "churned out," I mean it; they knocked out eighty of these babies in that span. [OK, technically, the first 77 were released theatrically through 1954, and the final three were completed later in the decade for television, but that means they crammed even more Mighty Mouse into a still smaller time frame. That can be eith...