Jon Mirsalis on Piano From his earliest films, Disney showed an interest in tales of adventure, the macabre, the fantastic. Even before The Mad Doctor, a 1933 Mickey Mouse cartoon considered so frightening that many theaters refused to show it, Disney concocted gruesome death-chamber scenes in Alice's Mysterious Mystery and a brutal kidnapping in Alice Chops the Suey that became milestones in cartoon frightfulness. Alice's Spooky Adventure (1924), Alice's Egg Plant (1925), Alice Stage Struck (1925), Alice Chops the Suey (1925), Alice's Mysterious Mystery (1926), Alice in the Woolly West (1926), Clara Cleans Her Teeth (1926), O What a Knight (1928), Galloping Gaucho (1928, sound), The Mad Doctor (1933, sound).