This is another funny Donald Duck cartoon, where he is a delivery boy trying to deliver a mysterious package on Friday the Thirteenth, unbeknownst to him that the package contains a bomb. He hilariously runs into tabooed objects, like a ladder and a black cat. Plenty of slapstick fun here and a mysterious, film-noire feel to the plot.Grade A

In 1939, both Warner Bros. and Disney released a pair of particularly gritty cartoons. Warners released "Thugs with Dirty Mugs", about a group of cat gangsters - one resembling Edward G. Robinson - going around committing crimes. Disney released "Donald's Lucky Day", in which Donald Duck has to deliver a package on Friday the 13th. Unbeknownst to him, this package contains a bomb that a pair of gangsters are sending to someone (they call the intended target a rat, implying that he's a member of their gang who told the police about them*). Complications arise when a black cat crosses Donny's path.It's not any sort of great cartoon - I always liked the Warner Bros. cartoons better than the Disney ones - but it's interesting to see a Disney character in a gritty story for a change. It figures that it would be the temperamental Donald as opposed to the overly nice Mickey.*Al Capone once said "Never trust a cop. You never know when he might go straight."

Hearing the upbeat music and reading the title, you'd think that Donald's Lucky Day is what we associate usually from the Donald Duck shorts. Actually, it's not what we expect but to me that was refreshing. Donald's Lucky Day doesn't see Donald losing his temper, and for Disney and Donald it is darker and more eerie than the title and opening music lets on. Again, none of these are bad things but actually quite a refreshing change. The animation is still the vibrant and detailed animation style we are familiar with and love, yet also has a more eerie and somewhat film-noir sort of look to it. A great touch was to have the gangsters at the beginning in shadow and we never see their faces, that was creepy and added further to the suspense. The music as always is just as wonderful, right from the catchy opening credits, the jaunty enhancement in the more humorous scenes and some haunting but not too obvious scoring in the more suspenseful ones. Coming with Donald's Lucky Day is a great story with a fair bit of humour, suspense and tension. The humour is good, with the fantastic bit where Donald gets buried in fish being the highlight. Donald is on top form, always a strong lead character he really shines as he battles his own superstitions and how he struggles with them is the short's strongest asset I feel. Clarence Nash's voice work is impeccable. All in all, a Donald Duck classic, different but incredibly well done in all respects. 10/10 Bethany Cox

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!Messenger Boy Donald is on his way to deliever a mysterious package. The person who gave him the package told him not to drop it and to be sure that it got to the place of delievery by midnight. Donald then relizes that it is Friday the 13th and pretty soon he crashes into a mirror, goes under a ladder, and is haunted by a black cat. Then he hears the package ticking....Enjoyable and a bit suspensful. Although there a couple of frustrating parts but nothing too bad.