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Northwest Hounded Police is a 1946 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery, produced by Fred Quimby, and featuring Droopy and Avery's wolf character. [1] A remake of Droopy's first cartoon Dumb-Hounded (also adopting elements from Avery's 1941 Bugs Bunny cartoon Tortoise Beats Hare), the short revolves around the wolf (an escaped criminal) on the run from Droopy, who is trailing the ...
Cellbound was the final released MGM cartoon to be directed by Avery. In the same year that the cartoon was released, he began his career in television at Cascade Studios, which Lah introduced him to, working on commercials for Raid and Kool-Aid (advertisements for the latter featured Bugs Bunny, who Cascade was unaware Avery had created).
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 was released on Blu-ray on February 18, 2020, and on DVD on December 1 with 19 shorts. All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive) and digitally restored.
The story begins in Coldernell, Alaska—Population 324 and getting smaller—a wild, rough town where gold is king while gambling, drinking, and shooting each other are the major activities. Droopy is "Dangerous Dan McGoo", a lone gambler, whose only love is the girl they call "Lou", played by Red (from Red Hot Riding Hood). The wolf drags ...
Butch (formerly known as Spike) is an animated cartoon character created by Tex Avery.Portrayed as an anthropomorphic Irish bulldog, the character was a recurring antagonist in the Droopy shorts, and appeared in his own series of solo shorts as well.
Avery returned to MGM in October 1951 and began working again. Avery's last two original cartoons for MGM were Deputy Droopy and Cellbound, completed in 1953 and released in 1955. They were co-directed by the Avery unit animator Michael Lah. Lah began directing a handful of CinemaScope Droopy shorts on his own. On March 1, 1953, Avery's unit ...
Droopy Three Little Pups: 1954 Tom and Jerry Posse Cat: Droopy Drag-A-Long Droopy: Tom and Jerry Hic-cup Pup: Billy Boy: Tom and Jerry Mice Follies: Neapolitan Mouse: Downhearted Duckling: 1955 Pup on a Picnic: Mouse for Sale: The First Bad Man: Droopy Deputy Droopy: Tom and Jerry Pecos Pest: 1956 The Egg and Jerry: 1957 Tops with Pops: Feedin ...
Northwest Hounded Police (1946) features Droopy and the Wolf character in a similar set-up. Again, the Wolf flees from Droopy, who keeps popping up in unexpected places. In the early 2000s a Cartoon Network short Thanks a Latté features Droopy and the Wolf character in a nearly-similar set-up; where he works at a coffee shop and forces a stingy wolf into giving him a tip when the wolf leaves ...