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| producer = [[Fred Quimby]]<br>(credited in reissue)
| producer = [[Fred Quimby]]<br>(credited in reissue)
| writer = [[Heck Allen]]
| writer = [[Heck Allen]]
| starring = Patrick McGeehan<br>Tex Avery<br>Dick Nelson<br> Ann Pickard<br> (all uncredited)
| starring = [[Tex Avery]]<br>[[Patrick McGeehan]]<br>[[Frank Graham (voice actor)|Frank Graham]]<br>[[Pinto Colvig]]<br>[[Sara Berner]]
| animator = [[Ed Love]]<br>[[Ray Abrams (animator)|Ray Abrams]]<br>[[Preston Blair]]<br>Walter Clinton<br>(credited in original issue)
| animator = [[Ed Love]]<br>[[Ray Abrams (animator)|Ray Abrams]]<br>[[Preston Blair]]<br>Walter Clinton<br>(credited in original issue)
| music = [[Scott Bradley (composer)|Scott Bradley]]
| music = [[Scott Bradley (composer)|Scott Bradley]]
| background_artist = John Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio|Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Cartoons]]
| studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio|Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Cartoons]]
| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| released = {{Start date|1945|11|3}}<ref>[http://www.texavery.com/films/ Tex Avery Tribute Website]</ref>
| released = {{Film date|1945|11|03|ref1=<ref>[http://www.texavery.com/films/ Tex Avery Tribute Website]</ref>}}
| runtime = 7:37
| runtime = 7:37
| country = United States
| country = United States
| language = English
| language = English
}}
}}
'''''Wild and Woolfy''''' is a 1945 animated cartoon short, one of six cartoons in which [[Droopy]] was paired with a wolf as his acting partner.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/76/mode/2up |pages=76–77}}</ref> It is one of a very few cartoons in the series where [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]] did not voice Droopy, instead [[Tex Avery]] himself provided the voice.<ref name="droopyvoice">{{Cite web|title=Didn't Tex Avery do a lot of the voices in his cartoons?|url=https://www.newsfromme.com/iaq/iaq08/|publisher=News From ME|accessdate=July 8, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Tex voice">{{cite web |title=“Hello All You Happy Tax Payers”: Tex Avery’s Voice Stock Company|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/hello-all-you-happy-tax-payers-tex-averys-voice-stock-company/|website=cartoonresearch.com|accessdate=7 February 2021}}</ref>
'''''Wild and Woolfy''''' is a 1945 animated cartoon short, one of six cartoons in which [[Droopy]] was paired with a wolf as his acting partner.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/76/mode/2up |pages=76–77}}</ref> It is one of a very few cartoons in the series where [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]] did not voice Droopy, instead [[Tex Avery]] himself provided the voice.<ref name="droopyvoice">{{Cite web|title=Didn't Tex Avery do a lot of the voices in his cartoons?|url=https://www.newsfromme.com/iaq/iaq08/|publisher=News From ME|accessdate=July 8, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Tex voice">{{cite web |title="Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/hello-all-you-happy-tax-payers-tex-averys-voice-stock-company/|website=cartoonresearch.com|accessdate=7 February 2021}}</ref><ref name="Tex voice 2">{{Cite web|title="Pretty Long Wait, Wasn't It?": TEX AVERY'S VOICE ACTORS (Volume 3) {{!}}|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/pretty-long-wait-wasnt-it-tex-averys-voice-actors-volume-3/|access-date=2021-10-04|website=cartoonresearch.com}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
In this western-themed cartoon, [[Big Bad Wolf#MGM/Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf|the Big Bad Wolf]], now playing a [[cowboy]] criminal called "Joe" Wolf in this cartoon, kidnaps the [[Cowboy#Cowgirls|cowgirl]] singer, Red (played by [[Red (animated character)|Red Hot]] from ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'') from Rig-R-Mortis saloon, where their motto is "Come in and get stiff." [[Droopy]] and a posse of cowboys doggedly follow him all over the [[Great Plains]] (mainly Droopy), but the wolf is far ahead. However, like in the previous cartoons, Droopy shows up in the places the wolf doesn't expect, forcing him to call for the waiter to keep Droopy away from him.
In this western-themed cartoon, [[Big Bad Wolf#MGM/Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf|the Big Bad Wolf]], now playing a [[cowboy]] criminal called "Joe" Wolf in this cartoon, kidnaps the [[Cowboy#Cowgirls|cowgirl]] singer, Red (played by [[Red (animated character)|Red Hot]] from ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'') from Rig-R-Mortis saloon, where their motto is "Come in and get stiff." [[Droopy]] and a posse of cowboys doggedly follow him all over the [[Great Plains]] (mainly Droopy), but the wolf is far ahead. However, like in the previous cartoons, Droopy shows up in the places the wolf doesn't expect, forcing him to call for the waiter to keep Droopy away from him.


Finally, in his hideout, the wolf, thinking Red is underneath the sheath, unveils it and kisses Droopy, who happens to be underneath and sitting on a stack of books. Desperate, the wolf asks him just who the heck he is and why Droopy kept following him throughout the cartoon. Droopy replies, "Why, haven't you heard? I'm the hero," and promptly knocks out the wolf. He calls for the waiter to take the wolf off to jail. After receiving a ‘My Hero' kiss from Red, Droopy goes crazy and kidnaps Red himself.
Finally, in his hideout, the wolf, thinking Red is underneath a sheet, unveils it, and kisses Droopy, who happens to be underneath and sitting on a stack of books. Desperate, the wolf asks him just who the heck he is and why he kept following him throughout the cartoon. Droopy replies, "Why, haven't you heard? I'm the hero," and promptly knocks out the wolf. He calls for the waiter to take the wolf off to jail. After receiving a "My Hero" kiss from Red, Droopy goes crazy and kidnaps Red himself.


==Voice cast==
==Voice cast==
*[[Tex Avery]] as [[Droopy]]<ref name="droopyvoice"/><ref name="Tex voice"/>
*[[Tex Avery]] as [[Droopy]], [[Big Bad Wolf#MGM/Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf|Joe Wolf]] (some lines), Horse<ref name="droopyvoice"/><ref name="Tex voice"/><ref name="Tex voice 2"/>
*Patrick McGeehan as [[Big Bad Wolf#MGM/Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf|Joe Wolf]], Bar Patrons
*[[Patrick McGeehan]] as Joe Wolf, Bar Patrons
*[[Frank Graham (voice actor)|Frank Graham]] as Race Caller<ref name="Tex voice 2"/>
*Dick Nelson as Slim, Horse
*[[Pinto Colvig]] as Joe Wolf (howling; reused from ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}</ref>
*Ann Pickard as [[Red (animated character)|Red]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Wild and Woolfy (1945) - The Internet Animation Database |url=https://www.intanibase.com/shorts.aspx?shortID=3454#page=general_info |website=www.intanibase.com |accessdate=3 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[Sara Berner]] and Ann Pickard as [[Red (animated character)|Red]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Wild and Woolfy (1945) - The Internet Animation Database |url=https://www.intanibase.com/shorts.aspx?shortID=3454#page=general_info |website=www.intanibase.com |accessdate=3 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Tex voice 2"/>


==Notes==
==Notes==
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[[Category:Films directed by Tex Avery]]
[[Category:Films directed by Tex Avery]]
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films]]
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films]]
[[Category:American animated short films]]
[[Category:American films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Scott Bradley]]
[[Category:Films scored by Scott Bradley]]
[[Category:Films featuring Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf]]
[[Category:Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf films]]
[[Category:1945 comedy films]]
[[Category:1945 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Henry Wilson Allen]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Henry Wilson Allen]]
[[Category:Films produced by Fred Quimby]]
[[Category:Films produced by Fred Quimby]]
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio short films]]
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio short films]]
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Wild and Woolfy
Directed byTex Avery
Written byHeck Allen
Produced byFred Quimby
(credited in reissue)
StarringTex Avery
Patrick McGeehan
Frank Graham
Pinto Colvig
Sara Berner
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byEd Love
Ray Abrams
Preston Blair
Walter Clinton
(credited in original issue)
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 3, 1945 (1945-11-03)[1]
Running time
7:37
LandVereinigte Staaten
SpracheEnglisch

Wild and Woolfy is a 1945 animated cartoon short, one of six cartoons in which Droopy was paired with a wolf as his acting partner.[2] It is one of a very few cartoons in the series where Bill Thompson did not voice Droopy, instead Tex Avery himself provided the voice.[3][4][5]

Plot

In this western-themed cartoon, the Big Bad Wolf, now playing a cowboy criminal called "Joe" Wolf in this cartoon, kidnaps the cowgirl singer, Red (played by Red Hot from Red Hot Riding Hood) from Rig-R-Mortis saloon, where their motto is "Come in and get stiff." Droopy and a posse of cowboys doggedly follow him all over the Great Plains (mainly Droopy), but the wolf is far ahead. However, like in the previous cartoons, Droopy shows up in the places the wolf doesn't expect, forcing him to call for the waiter to keep Droopy away from him.

Finally, in his hideout, the wolf, thinking Red is underneath a sheet, unveils it, and kisses Droopy, who happens to be underneath and sitting on a stack of books. Desperate, the wolf asks him just who the heck he is and why he kept following him throughout the cartoon. Droopy replies, "Why, haven't you heard? I'm the hero," and promptly knocks out the wolf. He calls for the waiter to take the wolf off to jail. After receiving a "My Hero" kiss from Red, Droopy goes crazy and kidnaps Red himself.

Voice cast

Notes

  • Wild and Woolfy is basically a color remake of the 1935 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Towne Hall Follies, also directed by Avery (albeit just credited in the other cartoon as a "lead animator") and it featured an identical storyline, despite being set in a different historical context.

References

  1. ^ Tex Avery Tribute Website
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Didn't Tex Avery do a lot of the voices in his cartoons?". News From ME. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  4. ^ a b ""Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d ""Pretty Long Wait, Wasn't It?": TEX AVERY'S VOICE ACTORS (Volume 3) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  6. ^ Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
  7. ^ "Wild and Woolfy (1945) - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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