Klondike Ben

Klondike Ben (titled "Call of the Mild" early in production) is the first Lil' Brother Ben theatrical cartoon short, one of two short lived spin-off series of The Mighty B! theatrical cartoons, in a parody of Gold Rush movies, particularly the 1925 Charlie Chaplin film, Ben goes on a hunt for gold in the Yukon during the 1896 Klondike gold rush.

Plot
The year is 1896, Benny McHiggens is searching for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush, in the meantime he and his partner Big John live in a house they had built, however as days past starvation takes over their lives, leading to one attempting to eat the other, usually imagining one as a big chicken dinner or a hamburger before coming back to their senses, eventually the winds start to move the house around, eventually letting them land near a cave, which to their surprise, has gold everywhere, and the cartoon ends.

Home Media
Klondike Ben is available on Blu-ray and DVD as part of the Olive Films release The Mighty B!: Volume 1, 1934-36.