Assault and Peppered
Assault and Peppered | |
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Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales) series | |
Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Produced by |
David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
Story by | John Dunn |
Voices by | Mel Blanc |
Music by | Bill Lava |
Animation by |
Manny Perez Warren Batchelder Bob Matz LaVerne Harding Norm McCabe Don Williams |
Layouts by | Dick Ung |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Studio | DePatie–Freleng Enterprises |
Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date(s) | April 24, 1965 (US) |
Color process | Technicolor |
Running time | 6' |
Language | English |
Assault and Peppered is a six-minute Merrie Melodies cartoon from 1965 featuring Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales with other mice.
Description
Titled as a play on the term "salt and pepper", Assault and Peppered' was released on April 24, 1965. It was directed by Robert McKimson and produced by the award-winning DePatie–Freleng, the production house responsible for the Pink Panther and other series of cartoons distributed by MGM. Its run time is six minutes. Mel Blanc voiced Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, and the mice.
Plot
This cartoon is a semi-remake of Friz Freleng's Bunker Hill Bunny. A group of starving mice are admiring Daffy Duck's Mexican plantation (aptly named El Rancho Rio Daffy), all the while wishing to have some of his home grown food. Evil land baron, Daffy, who isn't particularly fond of beggars, suddenly appears and angrily whips the mice for "starving on his property" claiming "It lowers the value!" Unfortunately, Speedy Gonzales interrupts and startles Daffy, at which the little black duck declares war on the mouse. The two proceed to do battle in private forts, resorting to everything from cannon fire to mine fields, with Daffy continually getting blown up. At the end, Speedy (tired from doing battle with Daffy) quits and goes home. Daffy then declares victory and rewards himself with a 21 gun salute. Unfortunately, as he pulls the strings to fire his cannons, the cannons flip in his direction ("Mother!") and blast him one-by-one (with Speedy observantly keeping count).
Crew
- Director: Robert McKimson
- Story: John Dunn
- Animation: Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz, Laverne Hardling, Norm McCabe, Don Williams
- Layout: Dick Ung
- Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
- Film Editor: Lee Gunther
- Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc
- Music: Bill Lava
- Produced by: David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
See also
Sources
- The Big Cartoon Database. Online. July 3, 2008.
- DePatie-Freleng WB Cartoons. "Assault And Peppered." Online. July 3, 2008.
- Lawson, Tim and Alisa Persons. The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's who of Cartoon Voice Actors Page 54. University Press of Mississippi. 2004. On Google Books. Online. July 3, 2008.