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Morgan's Ghost

Morgan's Ghost

Cancelled Disney Films 

Ahoy! It's time for a pirate's tale.

Morgan's Ghost was an unreleased cartoon Disney film, dated back around 1939. It was to have been the first the film to feature Mickey Mouse's redesign, but The Pointer show it instead, later that year. At some point it was going to be a feature film, which would have been the first to feature Donald, Mickey and Goofy, before Fun and Fancy Free.

The Plot Followed Mickey, Donald and Goofy, who are the owners of a small tavern, in a New England village called Fish Haven. One day on a stormy night, they are visited by a parrot with a peg leg named Yellow Beak.(probably Captain Hook's long lost parrot pet) He is hiding from Black Petebecause he has something that he wants: the treasure map of the pirate Henry Morgan. Yellow Beak offers to share the treasure if the trio can obtain a ship to get him to the island where the treasure is buried. Sounds like 'Pirates of the Caribbean' to me.

*Sings*"Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life for me."

Pete, having followed Yellow Beak, overhears all of this discussion, disguises himself as an old woman.

I'm not sure if that's going to work but whatever floats your boat.

He persuades the treasure hunters to lease his ship, the Sea Skunk. Wow, how can this not describe him?

After a series of slapstick interludes at sea, Pete captures Yellow Beak and the map. He sets Mickey, Donald and Goofy adrift in a tiny raft. No not my Mickey!

They wash ashore on a tropical island, cliché much? The very one with the treasure. Wow, didn't see that coming.

They find an old chest that contains not gold but the nutty ghosts of Henry Morgan and two of his crew. Disappointed to not find gold, at all!

They have been trapped in the chest for a century and so they celebrate being released. They agree to help the trio rescue Yellow Beak and find the long lost treasure. The ghost of Captain Morgan can't tell the trio directly where the treasure is hidden because "Dead men tell no tales." Called it!!!

The trio and the ghosts rescue Yellow Beak and the map. A gap in the map has to be placed over the tattoo on Yellow Beak's chest to reveal the treasure's true hiding place. What the what??? The parrot had a tattoo? That's messed up.

After battling man-eating plants, quicksand, and geysers, they find the gold.

There were actually two endings. One had Pete trying to take the loot but losing a game of "Who's Got the Drop on Whom?" with Mickey and the others getting the treasure.

An alternate version has Pete taking the treasure and the down hearted treasure hunters returning to their tavern. Their gloom is lifted when Donald bursts in with a newspaper and the headline that Pete has been arrested for passing counterfeit treasure. Yellow Beak announces that he just remembered that what they found was a decoy treasure chest. The location of the real treasure is tattooed on his rear end! WHAT THE FUDGE!?!?!?!?

The story ends with them heading off to find the real treasure.

After it was canceled, On the ride Pirates of the Caribbean the echo of "Dead men tell no tales" can be heard, paying homage to aa line from the story.

Welp, that's all folks. What did ya think of the story? Did ya wish it was a short cartoon or film? You decide.

Always a D.R.E.A.M. (Disney Rules Everything Around Me)

Source: Disney Wiki