Speedy Gonzales (film)
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| Speedy Gonzales
Merrie Melodies series |
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 The title card of Speedy Gonzales |
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| Directed by | I. Freleng |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc as Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Gerry Chiniquy Ted Bonnicksen Arthur Davis |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | September 17, 1955 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes 12 seconds |
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Speedy Gonzales is a 1955 Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng from a story by Warren Foster. It is the second cartoon to feature the title character. It won the Oscar as Best Animated Short of 1955. This is the first time Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester meet.
[edit] Plot
The beginning has a Mexican style song "The Grand Duke of York" before the story starts in the opening credits. The short opens on a small, white-shirted, worried group of mice wearing sombreos thinking of trying to get cheese from the AJAX cheese factory that is guarded by Sylvester the Cat (voiced by Mel Blanc). They have tried many times but those who tried were eaten by Sylvester. The mouse group's leader decides to send one of the mice to try and get cheese yet again but Sylvester devours him right away. After this, the leader comes up with a brilliant idea: retain the services of the aptly named "Speedy" Gonzales.
The group of mice agrees, so the leader goes to the carnival where Speedy is residing. There at the carnival, Speedy Gonzales is at the carnival attraction, "Shoot Speedy", where people try to shoot Speedy with bullets from a gun in order to "win a beeg prize". The leader tells Speedy Gonzales about the dire situation the mice are in, not having access to the cheese guarded by Sylvester.
Speedy Gonzales gives it a try and decides to run through the wire field between the mice and Sylvester. Speedy shakes his legs, yells "Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba!", and runs past Sylvester's, gets into the cheese factory and brings back a round of cheese. Sylvester then uses a baseball glove when he sees a baseball. He throws the baseball at the AJAX cheese factory but it turns out Speedy is inside the baseball, able to get more cheese from Sylvester and to the mice again.
Sylvester then tries landmines and mousetraps. Finally, Sylvester gets all the cheese from the factory and stacks them up. Sylvester uses a bomb to blow up all the cheese but the cheese boxes only explode, and all the cheese lands where the mice are. Speedy then says "I like this pussycat fellow; he's silly!" and the short ends.
