Strange Companion(1961)

movie - first aired/released 1961-05-12 - 5 min - audience 7.0

Animation

Directed by Mannie Davis

Hashimoto tells his children a bedtime story about a young mouse who adopted a small dragon as a pet. No one knew how big a dragon could grow until the young boy suddenly has a a 40-foot dragon! When the pet dragon destroys the boy's town, it's time to say goodbye. he dragon is banished from the village. However, there's a big problem about to explode on all the townspeople... a problem a dragon could fix- if only he was there. There's good news when the big dragon gets to the top of a volcano to spray it with water and save the countrieside.