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...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...
Fortunately, the excellence of the pictures is for a change enhanced by the narration. Apparently profiting from previous criticism, Disney has held the folksy humor to a minimum, allowing it only in intrinsically funny situations. Always, the pictures speak for themselves...
Playing in the good company of the Lions are two shorter films: Emperor Penguins, with photographs by the French Antarctic expedition, and Disney's cartoon version of Peter and the Wolf. The life of the penguin is not so gripping as that of the lion, but the brief presentation is charming. The cartooning in the latter picture is good, but wonkie adaptation and commentary will spoil it for most who remember Prokofieff's creation with any affection...