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Porky Pig has no hair, but that doesn’t stop a wimpy Indian from trying to scalp him in Nothing But the Tooth (1948).

The two are in a river. Director Art Davis cuts twice to a predictable gag.



Cut to a waterfall (background by Phil De Guard).



Over they go.



Now Davis cuts to the oddest gag in the whole picture. Salmon are swimming up the falls on their way back to the spawning grounds. Porky and the Indian copy them. Why? It’s a cartoon, don’t ask.



The Indian is caught along with some salmon. Off to the cannery. Carl Stalling, surprisingly, writes his own music as the machinery chugs away; Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” is not to be heard.



The cartoon, unfortunately, has a weak ending, like something from an early ‘60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Porky chases the Indian into the distance. That’s it? The cartoon has been pretty much one long chase to begin with.

Dave Monahan gets a story credit. Davis had Bill Melendez, Don Williams, John Carey and Basil Davidovich as his animators.