Thugs with Dirty Mugs

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Thugs with Dirty Mugs
Title card from the 1944 Blue Ribbon reissue
Directed byTex Avery
Story byJack Miller
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Danny Webb
John Deering
Tedd Pierce
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation bySidney Sutherland
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • May 6, 1939 (1939-05-06)
Running time
8:05
LanguageEnglish

Thugs with Dirty Mugs is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[1] The short was released on May 6, 1939.[2]

The title is derived from the Warner Bros.' 1938 acclaimed feature film, Angels with Dirty Faces. It is similar to Avery's later MGM crime/detective-oriented cartoon Who Killed Who?

Plot

The film takes place in the fictional New York town of Everyville, which is home to a vast total of 112 banks.

The title card and technical credits are followed by introductions of the two lead characters: "F.H.A. (Sherlock) Homes" as police chief "Flat-Foot Flanigan with a Floy Floy," and "Edward G. Robemsome" (a caricature of

The Lone Stranger
" on radio, Flanigan and his men are poised inside and make their move to capture the criminals, firing at them. Thus, Killer is captured, convicted, and given a long sentence — which is revealed to be a prison term in which he must write standards ("I've been a naughty boy") on a blackboard one thousand times, much like schoolkids of that era. The imprisoned Killer blows a raspberry as the cartoon irises out.

Reception

The cartoon was banned in

Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939, because censors "felt the film was just an excuse to show criminal activity."[3]

Animation historian Greg Ford calls Thugs with Dirty Mugs "an Avery treatise on movie gangsterdom that insightfully satirizes the live-action crime thrillers being made at the Warner Bros. studios during this period... The real secret behind Thugs with Dirty Mugs' durability lies in the spot-on accuracy with which the cartoon reconstructs the trappings of Warner's gangster films."[4]

Home media

Thugs with Dirty Mugs was released uncut and restored on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
    .
  2. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America by Karl F. Cohen — Google Boeken
  4. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9
    .

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