Mickey's Rescue is a 1934 talkie

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

 short film in Larry Darmour's Mickey McGuire

Mickey McGuire (film series)

Mickey McGuire was an American comedy series of short subjects from 1927 to 1934. The series was notable for essentially launching the careers of Mickey Rooney and Billy Barty. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip series, Toonerville Trolley. The series was very popular in its...

series starring a young Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

. Directed by Jesse Duffy

Jesse Duffy

Jesse Duffy was an American serial screenwriter for Republic Pictures and Columbia Pictures during the 1940s....

, the two-reel short was released to theaters on March 23, 1934 by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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Plot

In order to give Billy a proper education, a rich couple decide to adopt Billy. Feeling that something bad might happen to him, Mickey and the Scorpions trail the wealthy couple to a hotel. There, Billy finds out that life as a rich kid isn't so hot. When Mickey and the gang finally find him, Billy has accidentally gone out of window, and is hanging high above the ground. Can Mickey and Hambone save Billy?

Cast

• Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...
  
   - Mickey McGuire
• Douglas Scott - Stinky Davis
• Marvin Stephens - Katrink'
• Billy Barty
  Billy Barty
  Billy Barty was an American film actor.-Biography:Barty, an Italian American, was born William John Bertanzetti in Millsboro, Pennsylvania...
  
   - Billy McGuire
• Jimmy Robinson
  Jimmy Robinson (actor)
  James Robinson Jr. was an American film actor.-Career:Robinson played the role of "Hambone" Johnson in Fontaine Fox's Mickey McGuire film series of short subjects. He was in the series from its beginning in 1927 until its end in 1934, appearing in most of the shorts in series. During his Mickey...
  
   - Hambone Johnson
• Shirley Jean Rickert
  Shirley Jean Rickert
  Shirley Jean Rickert was an American child actress who was briefly the "blonde girl" for the Our Gang series in 1931, during the Hal Roach talkie period.-Career:...
  
   - Tomboy Taylor
• Spencer Bell
  Spencer Bell (actor)
  Spencer Bell was an was an American actor, best known for playing opposite Larry Semon in several of his comedies.-Career:...
  
   - Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
• Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  
   - Maid (uncredited)
• Robert McKenzie
  Robert McKenzie (actor)
  Robert McKenzie was an Irish film actor. He appeared in over 310 films between 1915 and 1946.McKenzie was married to actress Eva McKenzie until his death from a heart attack in 1949. The two appeared as husband and wife in The Three Stooges film The Yoke's on Me...
  
  - Dental patient (uncredited)