The Golden Touch is a lesser Silly Symphony – with a decent song by Frank Churchill (sung by Billy Bletcher) and some fun a weird animation by Norm Ferguson and Fred Moore. Where the cartoon falls short is the story, which is odd because as an adaptation of a classic story, this should have been a shoo-in for the director – one of the best storytellers of the century – Walt Disney. Where Nathaniel Hawthorne showed Midas losing his beloved daughter as a victim of his greed, Disney presented the comedic Midas panicking because he couldn’t eat, eventually trading his golden touch and everything he owned in exchange for “one hamburger sandwich”.
