Dudley Do-Right

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Dudley Do-Right
Canadian

Dudley Do-Right is a fictional character created by Alex Anderson, Chris Hayward, Allan Burns, Jay Ward, and Bill Scott, who appears as the main protagonist of "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

The segment parodies early 20th-century melodrama and silent film (the "Northern"), using only a piano as a musical background.

Dudley Do-Right's first appearance specifically incorporates silent film tropes such as

intertitles and iris shots, as well as incorporating a similar plot to 1921 silent film O'Malley of the Mounted, starring William S. Hart
.

Overview

The segments' characters and plot lampooned such films as William S. Hart's 1921 silent drama film O'Malley of the Mounted.

Dudley Do-Right is a dim-witted, but conscientious and cheerful Canadian Mountie who works for Inspector Fenwick. Do-Right is always trying to catch his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, and rescue Inspector Fenwick's daughter, damsel-in-distress Nell Fenwick, with whom Do-Right is deeply infatuated. He usually succeeds only by pure luck or through the actions of his horse, named "Horse."

A running gag throughout the series is Nell Fenwick's disinterest in Do-Right; instead, she appears to be infatuated with his horse. She is shown to kiss the horse rather than Do-Right, and when Do-Right leaves the Mounties, she is only upset about the horse leaving. In Do-Right's first appearance, the narrator states,

Dudley loved Nell. Unfortunately, she loved his horse.[4]

In the standard intro, Do-Right jumps on Horse and furiously rides him backwards as titles appear. While riding, he comes across Whiplash tying Nell Fenwick to a railroad track. He tips his hat to the two, before realizing what is going on and righting himself in time to save the day.

Dudley Do-Right made a cameo in a "Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club" segment as the hero in "She Can't Pay the Rent", a play staged by Boris Badenov. Rocky and Bullwinkle also appeared as cameos in "Mountie Bear".[citation needed]

The Dudley Do-Right Show

The Dudley Do-Right Show is an animated television series assembled by P.A.T. Film Services, consisting of cartoons produced by

The World of Commander McBragg", along with one segment each of "Tooter Turtle
" and "The Hunter". Dudley Do-Right was a Jay Ward production, while the other segments were products of Total Television. Both companies used Gamma Productions, a Mexico-based animation studio.

The U.S. syndicated version of The Dudley Do-Right Show, called Dudley Do Right and Friends, follows the same format but features different episodes. The syndicated package features "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties", "The World of Commander McBragg", "The King and Odie", and "The Hunter". The latter two originally appeared as part of King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, a series that aired between October 15, 1960, and September 28, 1963, on NBC-TV. Twenty-six new segments of both series were produced for CBS-TV's Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales in 1963, and these later segments are included in the syndicated Dudley Do Right and Friends.

Actors (voice overs) included:

Segments

Season 1

  1. The Disloyal Canadians
  2. Stokey the Bear
  3. Mortgagin' the Mountie Post
  4. Trap Bait
  5. The Masked Ginny Lynn

Season 2

  1. The Centaur
  2. Railroad Tracks
  3. Foreclosing Mortgages
  4. Snidely Mounted Police
  5. Mother Love
  6. Mountie Bear
  7. Inspector Dudley Do-Right
  8. Recruiting Campaign
  9. Out of Uniform
  10. Lure of the Footlights
  11. Bullet-Proof Suit
  12. Miracle Drug
  13. Elevenworth Prison
  14. Saw Mill
  15. Finding Gold
  16. Mountie Without a Horse
  17. Mother Whiplash's Log Jam
  18. Stolen Art Masterpiece

Season 3

  1. Mechanical Dudley
  2. Flicker Rock
  3. Faithful Dog
  4. Coming-Out Party
  5. Robbing Banks
  6. Skagway Dogsled-Pulling Contest
  7. Canadian Railway's Bridge
  8. Niagara Falls
  9. Snidely's Vic Whiplash Gym
  10. Marigolds
  11. Trading Places

Season 4

  1. Top Secret
  2. The Locket
  3. The Inspector's Nephew
  4. Matinee Idol
  5. Snidely Arrested

One segment originally seen on

Classic Media in 2005.[citation needed
]

Legacy

The Dudley-Do Right's Ripsaw Falls log flume ride features a parody of Mount Rushmore with (left to right) Horse, Fenwick, Nell, and Do-Right.

On May 28, 1999,

Mack GmbH.[6]

On August 27, 1999, Universal Studios released a comedy live-action film based on the character, titled Dudley Do-Right. It starred Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Alfred Molina. It received negative reviews and was a box-office failure, grossing less than $10 million domestically against a $22 million budget.[7]

In 2000, music historian Irwin Chusid claimed that scat singer Shooby Taylor's voice reminded him of Dudley Do-Right's "virile baritone."[8]

Premiering in 2013, the Canadian adult animated series Fugget About It features a dimwitted yet well-meaning Mountie character, Strait McCool. McCool exhibits similar appearance, voice acting, behavior, and personality to Do-Right (except for the addition of sexual and drug references). It may be inferred that the character of McCool is a parody of Do-Right.[9][10]

See also

  • The Dover Boys
    , a 1942 Warner Brothers cartoon parodying silent film era storytelling

References

  1. ), p. 168
  2. ^ "Bullwinkle's WYME TV Animation & Jokes (Bullwinkle and Dudley)". YouTube. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "Voice Of Dudley Do-Right - Dudley Do-Right | Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 16, 2021. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources
  4. ^ Rocky & Bullwinkle 1st appearance of Dudley Do-Right (Season 1), retrieved 2022-08-21
  5. .
  6. ^ "Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls at Universal's Islands of Adventure". Orlando Informer. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  7. ^ Gray, Brandon. "Dudley Do-Right". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  8. ^ Chusid, Irwin (2000). Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music. A Cappella. p. 141.
  9. ^ Best of McCool - FOR CANADA! Part 1, retrieved 2022-08-21
  10. ^ Mccools's Fugget about it intro, retrieved 2022-08-21

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