Speedy Gonzales | |
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Directed by | I. Freleng |
Story by | Warren Foster [1] |
Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
Starring | Mel Blanc (all other voices) Stan Freberg (Mice - uncredited) |
Music by | Carl Stalling |
Animation by | Gerry Chiniquy Ted Bonnicksen Arthur Davis Harry Love (uncredited) |
Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
Backgrounds by | Irv Wyner |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6:45 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Speedy Gonzales is a 1955 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng from a story by Warren Foster. [2] The short was released on September 17, 1955, and stars Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester. [3]
The short opens on a small, worried group of Mexican mice thinking of how to get cheese from the AJAX cheese factory across the Mexico–United States border that is guarded by Sylvester. Sylvester has eaten any mice who have tried. The leader comes up with a brilliant idea: Gain the services of the aptly named "Speedy Gonzales". The group agrees, so the leader goes to the carnival where Speedy resides.
Speedy Gonzales is at the carnival attraction "Shoot Speedy" in which people try to shoot Speedy with bullets from a gun in order to "win a beeg prize." The leader tells Speedy, in Spanish, about the dire situation the mice are in, not having access to the cheese guarded by Sylvester. Speedy agrees to help and runs through the field between the mice and Sylvester to fetch an armful of cheese with each turn. After failing to catch Speedy by hand, Sylvester employs a hand net, mousetraps, landmines, baseball equipment, and a pipe to funnel Speedy right into his mouth, but Speedy manages to thwart him every time.
Finally getting fed up, Sylvester gets all the cheese from the factory, stacks it, and uses dynamite to blow it all up. However, all the cheese ends up raining down on the mice, causing Sylvester to cry and bang his head on an electric pole in vexation. Speedy ends the short by saying: "I like this pussycat fellow; he's silly!"
Speedy Gonzales won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1955. [4] [5]
This short marks the first appearance of a redesign for Speedy, after his initial appearance in Cat-Tails for Two .
Speedy Gonzalas can be found on Disc 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.
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