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Topic: Don Rosa's non-Barks references

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Sigvald
During my work on the new American Don Rosa Index I have found the following non-Barks references in Rosas stories:

Det synes å være en vanlig oppfatning at Don Rosa mer eller mindre kun er inspirert av den store mester Carl Barks. Dette er imidlertid slett ikke riktig. I forbindelse med arbeidet med det nye amerikanske Rosa-indekset har jeg funnet frem til en lang rekke andre ikke-Barksistiske inspirasjonskilder:

Films

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/
Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack:
King Kong (1933)
Escape from Forbidden Valley

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/
Michael Curtiz/William Keighley:
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
His Majesty, McDuck

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031060/
Edward Buzzell:
At the Circus (1939)
The Treasury Of Croesus

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031398/
George Stevens:
Gunga Din (1939)
The Treasure Of The Ten Avatars

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032762/
Rouben Mamoulian
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
His Majesty McDuck

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
Orson Welles:
Citizen Kane (1941)
His Majesty McDuck
The Richest Duck in the World (Lo$ 12)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
John Huston:
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Richest Duck in the World (Lo$ 12)
The Crown of the Crusader Kings

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036326/
Norman Ferguson/Wilfred Jackson:
Saludos Amigos (1942)
The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038166/
Norman Ferguson:
The Three Caballeros (1944)
The Three Caballeros Ride Agian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
Frank Capra:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Duck Who Never Was

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
The New Laird of Castle McDuck

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039420/
Joseph L. Mankiewicz:
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Billionaire of Dismal Downs

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/
John Huston:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Three Caballeros Ride Agian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041737/
Henry Cornelius:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
His Majesty, McDuck

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/
John Huston:
The African Queen (1951)
The Crocodile Collector

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/
John Huston:
Moby Dick (1956)
The Cowboy Captain Of The Cutty Sark

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/
Jack Arnold:
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052948/
Henry Levin:
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Universal Solvent

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/
John Sturges:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff
The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057413/
Blake Edwards:
The Pink Panther (1963)
The Black Knight

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/
George Roy Hill:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Prisoner Of White Agony Creek

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/
Steven Spielberg:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
A Letter From Home or The Old Castle's Other Secret

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
Robert Zemeckis:
Back to the Future (1985)
The Once And Future Duck

Comics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo
Winsor McCay:
Little Nemo in Slumberland (1908)
A Matter of Some Gravity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant
Hal Foster:
The Roman Wall (1942)
The Last of the Clan McDuck

http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+DD+++51-02
Carl Fallberg / Tony Strobl:
The Secret Of The Glacier (1957)
Last Sled to Dawson

http://www.comicwiki.dk/wiki/Genf%C3%A6rdet_skyder_med_guldkugler
Charlier & Giraud:
Le spectre aux balles d'or (The Ghost with the Golden Bullets) (1972)
The Dutchman's Secret

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Magic_Carpet
Albert Uderzo
Astérix chez Rahazade (Asterix and the Magic Carpet) (1987)
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars

Novels/literature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment (1816)
Return to Xanadu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot:
Kalevala (1957)
The Quest for Kalevala
Sirredknee
Too many Rosa topics here for my likings, but this one's interesting. Maybe you could go more into detail, although I see most of the references...
In The Sign of the Triple Distelfink, there's an allusion to the Ale & Quail Club from the Preston Sturges movie The Palm Beach Story ("That poor guy! That's what they did to us last time!"). Then there's Rosa's obsession with what I'd call "film title droppings": The Birdman of Alcatraz in On Stolen Time, The Wages of Fear (=Le salaire de la peur) in The Last Lord of El Dorado (in the truck scene, fittingly) and at least two or three others I can't remember at the moment.
As for comics, there are allusions in The Once and Future Duck to both Tintin (total eclipse of the sun scene from Le temple du soleil) and Astérix (Merlin and Arthur behave like Assurancetourix and Cétautomatix).
Steamboat Willie
Haven't he done a lot of song lyric references too? LIke, I remember some translators having a hard time translating "Lydia the tattooed lady" from some Rosa-story?
Sirredknee
"Lydia" is from the Marx Brothers' "At the Circus", included in the list (but the song can also be heard in "The Philadelphia Story").
What about Barney Bear, Benny Burro and Andy Panda in The Crocodile Collector? I guess they are considered Barks references?
Sigvald
Thanks!
I can see that there's room for improvement for next edition of my index.
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