Hoppy Go Lucky
Hoppy-Go-Lucky | |
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Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Story by | Tedd Pierce[1] |
Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
Starring | Mel Blanc Stan Freberg (uncredited) |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Animation by | Charles McKimson Rod Scribner Phil DeLara Herman Cohen |
Layouts by | Robert Givens |
Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 6:55 |
Language | English |
Hoppy-Go-Lucky is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short film directed by Robert McKimson.[2] The short was released on August 9, 1952, and stars Sylvester and Hippety Hopper.[3]
Plot
[edit]The cartoon spoofs the 1937 book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, which was popular at the time; it features a giant, dimwitted cat named "Benny", who wants Sylvester, whom he calls "George", to help him catch a mouse to "hug and pet." Mel Blanc voices Sylvester and Stan Freberg voices Benny. Sylvester tries to tell Benny the mouse is a king-sized mouse, but Benny does not believe him and threatens to "stroke his fur the wrong way" if he drives him crazy.
References
[edit]- ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 111. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 238. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60-61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- 1952 films
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
- Films directed by Robert McKimson
- 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films
- Of Mice and Men
- Sylvester the Cat films
- Animated films about kangaroos and wallabies
- 1950s English-language films
- Hippety Hopper films
- English-language short films
- 1952 animated short films
- Looney Tunes stubs
- 1950s animated film stubs
- 1950s American film stubs