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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 ...
[8] Droopy himself was a versatile actor: he could play a Mountie, a cowboy, a deputy, an heir, or a Dixieland-loving everyday Joe with equal ease. The same voice was used for Big Heel-Watha in the Screwy Squirrel cartoon of the same name and for a Pilgrim who chases a turkey modeled after Jimmy Durante in Avery's 1945 short Jerky Turkey .
Drag-a-Long Droopy: 1954 DVD: Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection; Blu-Ray: Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2 [57] 57 Billy Boy: 1954 Blu-Ray: Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 [57] 58 Homesteader Droopy: 1954 DVD: Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection; Blu-Ray: Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2 [46] 59 The Farm of ...
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 ...
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).
Lah's One Droopy Knight was nominated for the 1957 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). However, for the most part, both the 1955–1957 CinemaScope Droopy and Tom and Jerry cartoons had lost their appeal in the eyes of critics due to weaker stories and simplistic animation, which were the result of the budget cuts. [33]
October 28: MGM releases Deputy Droopy, a cartoon starring Droopy, directed by Tex Avery. Avery left MGM in 1953, but the cartoon was only finished and released after ...
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.