One End to the Other

The city wolf spends a good portion of Little Rural Riding Hood trying, with absolutely no success, to get his country cousin wolf to stop reacting to Red’s nightclub stage performance.

In one gag, the country wolf (Pinto Colvig) gets a look at Red’s butt and begins whistling. The city wolf (Daws Butler) casually puts his fingers in the country wolf’s mouth to stop it, but the whistling simply gets transferred from one mouth to another. So much for the city wolf’s reserve.



The city wolf reacts to the viewing audience. Tex Avery holds the drawing for five frames.



Colvig has my favourite line in this short when he turns to the audience and observes “Kissed a cow” after we see him kissing a startled cow.

Grant Simmons, Walt Clinton, Mike Lah and Bobe Cannon are the credited animators (though Preston Blair did Red), with Rich Hogan and Jack Cosgriff sharing the story credit.

The cartoon was released on September 17, 1949, though we’ve found it was playing at Loew’s State in Memphis on Sept. 8th. It was re-released by MGM in 1956 and 1966.