A Haunting We Will Go

A Haunting We Will Go (stylized as A Haunting We Will Go! on posters) is the fifteenth Mighty B! theatrical cartoon short, starring Amelia Pohler as Bessie and Andy Richards as Ben and guest starring jazz singer Cab Calloway, Director Carlton Andersen took influence from his German Expressionist roots and designed some scenery inspired by films like The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari (1920) and his own Pinocchio's Death (1926).

In 1994, A Haunting We Will Go the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot
Ben, feeling left out and alone, decides to run away from Home on a Halloween night, Bessie follows him in an attempt to get him back, there they get lost in the woods and enter a deep dark cave for shelter, there they meet King Skull, the Tsar of the Dead (Cab Calloway) and sings Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1931), Bessie and Ben try to run away but encounter more ghouls along the way, after a nightmarish sequence, the siblings make it out and run all the way back home.

Production Notes
The film is a semi-remake of the 1932 Betty Boop short Minnie the Moocher (1932), also featuring Cab Calloway.

Home Media
Bully Trouble is available on Blu-ray and DVD in the Olive Films release The Mighty B!: Volume 1, 1934-36.