Mexican Joyride

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Mexican Joyride
Directed byArthur Davis
Story byDave Monahan
Produced byEdward Selzer (uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byCharacter animation:
Don Williams
Basil Davidovich
J.C. Melendez
Herman Cohen
Cal Dalton (uncredited)[1]
Layouts byThomas McKimson
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
November 29, 1947 (USA)
Running time
7 minutes (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

Mexican Joyride is a 1947 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Arthur Davis and written by Dave Monahan.[2] The cartoon was released on November 29, 1947, and stars Daffy Duck.[3]

Plot[edit]

Daffy Duck drives to Mexico for a vacation, and after a harrowing experience with the local cuisine that literally sets his mouth afire, Daffy goes to a bullfight ring to observe the spectacle. When Daffy jeers at the bull, the horned beast removes the clothes from the human matador and puts them on Daffy as a challenge to the duck to fight the bull in the ring.

Daffy foils the bull with a proposed wager on a hat trick, betting the bull to guess which of three sombreros Daffy is hiding under. Daffy sees to it that the bull guesses wrong and supplies a machine gun for the impoverished bull to commit suicide. The bull realizes that he is being fooled and, firing the machine gun, chases Daffy out of the bullfight ring. Daffy scrambles to his car to leave Mexico, thinking he has escaped the belligerent bull. But the bull is riding in the back seat of Daffy's vehicle, unbeknownst to Daffy.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Animation Breakdowns #29". Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 180. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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