Peck Up Your Troubles
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1945 film by Friz Freleng
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| Directed by | The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 7:11 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Peck Up Your Troubles is a 1945
animated short directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on October 20, 1945, and stars Sylvester the Cat.[3]
The cartoon marked the first appearance of Sylvester's long-time foe
A Peck o' Trouble, a Dodsworth Cat cartoon directed by Robert McKimson
in 1953.
Plot
Sylvester is determined to get a male woodpecker that just moved in, high in a tree. He climbs, but the bird greases the tree, causing him to fall down; he starts to chop it down, but a mean dog (
Hector
, in his first appearance, though identified here on the doghouse as "Rover") stops him from cutting it (this becomes a running gag). Several other attempts follow; at one point, he puts his paw into the bird's home, and the bird puts a tomato there.
Sylvester squishes it, thinking he killed him and the bird dresses as an angel to torment him, but Sylvester sees through the disguise. Few more attempts passed and finally, Sylvester tries to blow up the tree; the dog again intervenes. Sylvester gets the dynamite off the tree and puts out the fuses, but the bird has lit them again. Sylvester dies and really becomes an angel.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links
- Peck Up Your Troubles at IMDb
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