After slamming and locking a bunch of doors (and eating the key, in time-honoured comedy fashion), the wolf realises he hasn’t escaped Sergeant McPoodle (aka Droopy). He gives a typical Tex Avery reaction then the camera pans to the right to reveal why. Here’s a reconstruction of the shot.
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Northwest Hounded Police are Walt Clinton, Preston Blair, Ray Abrams and Ed Love. Frank Graham is the wolf and Bill Thompson is not Droopy as Thompson was in the military and stationed for the duration in Illinois when this cartoon was made.
Avery himself is Droopy (the tipoff is that Droopy rarely speaks as much as does when Thompson voices him, probably to hide the more stiff and deadpan delivery that would have tip some people off..).
ReplyDeleteAlso, check out that Duck Tracy plug ("the famous duck-tective!").
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if Tex had substituted as Droopy in this cartoon. I had read that Avery doubled as Droopy in " Deputy Droopy " along with Bill Thompson.
ReplyDeleteThe "Deputy Droopy" not-Bill Thompson voice sound more like Daws Butler doing the role. Tex's Droopy had more of a mealy-mouthed sound, though I supposed between the mid-1940s and the time Avery made his last Droopy in 1953, that might have changed.
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