The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions. It premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944, and was released in the United States on February 3, 1945 and in the United Kingdom that May. The seventh animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, as well as the first animated Disney film to be a sequel (to Saludos Amigos), and the first Disney film to combine live actors with animated characters, it plots an adventure through parts of Latin America. It is the second of the Disney package films of the 1940s.
The film is plotted as a series of self-contained segments, strung together by the device of Donald Duck opening birthday gifts from his Latin American friends. Several Latin American stars of the period appear, including singers, Aurora Miranda (sister of Carmen Miranda) and Dora Luz, and dancer, Carmen Molina.
The film was produced as part of the studio's good will message for South America, but is less obviously propagandistic than many of its wartime productions. The film again stars Donald Duck, who in the course of the film is joined by old friend, José Carioca, the cigar-smoking parrot from Saludos Amigos, representing Brazil, and later makes a new friend in the persona of a pistol-packing rooster Panchito Pistoles, representing Mexico.
It was severely edited and re-released in featurette form on April 15, 1977 to accompany a re-issue of Never a Dull Moment.
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The Three Caballeros is rated G by the MPAA, making it the seventh Disney animated film to deserve that rating, after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi and Saludos Amigos.
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