The Brave Engineer

The Brave Engineer
Directed byJack Kinney[1]
Story byDick Kinney
Dick Shaw
Based onThe Ballad of Casey Jones by Eddie Newton
T. Lawrence Seibert
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringThe King's Men
Narrated byJerry Colonna
Music byKen Darby
Animation byMilt Kahl
Fred Moore
Al Bertino
Layouts byDon DaGradi
Backgrounds byRay Huffine
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • March 3, 1950 (1950-03-03)
Running time
7:38
CountryUnited States

The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film,[2] based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones.[3] It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling[4] of the story[5] related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert. It was also released fifty years after Jones was killed.

  1. ^ AllMovie
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 153. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  3. ^ FilmAffinity
  4. ^ Letterboxd
  5. ^ MUBI