Showdown (1942) is the eleventh of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman.Produced by Famous Studios, the plot focuses on a criminal who impersonates Superman to commit crimes for a gangster. The short was released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on October 16, 1942.

lly Massey: Do you like sheriffing? uck Jarvis: It's a job. lly Massey: What kind of salary do you get? uck Jarvis: No salary, I... te Jarvis: Oh, he gets two dollars for serving a warrant, three dollars for arresting anybody... uck Jarvis: And thirty cents a mile for chasing idiots... te Jarvis: Like you. lly Massey: Well then, you ought to thank me for doubling back. I let you make a few extra bucks.

lly Massey: Art, I got to hand it to you. The whole thing went off as slick as spit on a round doorknob.

lly Massey: Stop worrying! The sheriff in Cumbres is so fat he uses a barrel hoop for a belt and he couldn't catch a milk cow if it had a bell on it.

uck Jarvis: You stick to practicing law - I'll enforce it!

uck Jarvis: Well, maybe you better get down to Wilson's office. He's waiting on you. ck Bonney: Oh, no hurry. He'll take ten minutes talking about how the President appointed him to bring law and order to this lawless community. uck Jarvis: Yeah. You'd think he'd save some of that breath for breathing.

ck Bonney: You figuring on getting yourself killed, Sheriff? uck Jarvis: I got a good chance at it.

lly Massey: I often wondered why you and me never hooked up, Kate. te Jarvis: Hook up with the tail of a kite with no string on it? Unh-uh. lly Massey: It might have been a fun ride.

uck Jarvis: Do you mind telling me why you are stopping trains? lly Massey: I was infected with a social disease... known as bad luck. uck Jarvis: The juries are beginning to take a dim view of bad luck.

Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has since then become the janitor of the school that Ken, Julie and Tom go to. When Ken gets beaten up by Tom for talking to Julie again, Billy helps Ken by teaching him how to defend himself, which eventually leads to a battle between student vs. student, and sensei vs. sensei. Written by

Shadrach Jones (William Elliott), ex-Texas State Policeman, has a ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for he and Shadrach. At the saloon-hotel ran by Adelaide (Marie Windsor), Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on a cattle drive by Captain McKellar (Walter Brennan) to Montana is the killer, and he takes the trail-herd boss job to identify the man. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he has not anticipated. Written by Les Adams

European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves. Written by Ed Stephan

Render, posing as an European Baron, arrives at the Colonel's ranch where he plans to steal some of his fine race horses, rename them and then race them. Hoppy arrives at the same time and immediately becomes suspicious of the Baron. Winning money from the Baron at poker, he marks the bills. He is robbed but as suspected, the money reappears and it is the Baron that has it. Written by Maurice VanAuken

The baseball portion of the film was scheduled to be shot with many extras that would fill up the stands of the stadium. Due to complications, not enough people showed up and the filmmakers were forced to continue shooting with almost-empty stands. It was only on watching the dailies that the filmmakers decided to undertake the long and challenging journey to fill the stadium using advanced 3D Crowd simulation techniques. A task that many considered "impossible" considering the limited resources.

The first shot of the film required more than 1500 hours of computer processing, in order to add cheering digital crowd to the baseball stadium.

Cameo(Keith J. Hersch): (Composer) a rugged town's person in a shot for the western segment.

When actor Clayton Norcross showed up at the casting session for the film dressed as a western gunslinger, the filmmakers knew immediately they had found their lead actor.

DIRCAMEO(Fulvio Sestito): cloned more than 3,000 times as a CG digital crowd character.

This was the last Western to be released under the Universal-International name.

rrator: Faster than a streak of lightning! More powerful than the pounding surf! Mightier than a roaring hurricane, this amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel, Superman!