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Clock Cleaners

Clock Cleaners

Animation · Comedy · 1937

It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!

Movie details

Clock Cleaners

“Mickey, Donald and Goofy are trying to clean the clock of a tower.”

1937 Animation · Comedy 9m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over Clock Cleaners?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Ben Sharpsteen

Written by

Roy Williams · Otto Englander

Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Pinto Colvig

Goofy (voice) (uncredited)

Clarence Nash

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

James MacDonald

James MacDonald

Spring (voice) (uncredited)

Walter Tetley

Walter Tetley

Stork (voice) (uncredited)

Court is in session

Put Clock Cleaners on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.