Speedy Gonzales (short) (2024)

Contents

  • 1 Speedy Gonzales
    • 1.1 Series:
    • 1.2 Runtime:
    • 1.3 Copyright Renewed:
    • 1.4 Starring:
  • 2 Crew
    • 2.1 Voice Characterizations:
    • 2.2 Director:
    • 2.3 Written By:
    • 2.4 Producer:
    • 2.5 Animated By:
    • 2.6 Assistant Animators:
    • 2.7 Layout Artist:
    • 2.8 Background Artist:
    • 2.9 Film Editor:
    • 2.10 Musician:
  • 3 Plot
  • 4 Availability
    • 4.1 Streaming
  • 5 Notes
  • 6 Gallery
  • 7 References
  • 8 External links

Speedy Gonzales[]

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Airdate:
17 September 1955

Series:[]

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:Production Number:Vitaphone Number:
1688813452523

Runtime:[]

6 minutes, 44 seconds

Copyright Renewed:[]

1 March 1983

Starring:[]

Speedy Gonzales

Sylvester

Crew[]

Voice Characterizations:[]

Mel Blanc

Jack Edwards (uncredited)

Director:[]

I. Freleng

Written By:[]

Warren Foster

Producer:[]

Eddie Selzer (uncredited)

Animated By:[]

Gerry Chiniquy

Ted Bonnicksen

Arthur Davis

Assistant Animators:[]

Willie Ito

Layout Artist:[]

Hawley Pratt

Background Artist:[]

Irv Wyner

Film Editor:[]

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:[]

Carl Stalling

Speedy Gonzales is a 1955 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.

Plot[]

A group of small, white-shirted, sombrero-wearing mice are thinking of how to get cheese from the AJAX cheese factory across the Mexican-American border that is guarded by Sylvester. The accumulating collection of sombreros a few steps down the wire fence indicates Sylvester has neatly disposed of any mouse that tried. The leader comes up with a brilliant idea: retain the services of the aptly named Speedy Gonzales. The group agrees, so the leader goes to the carnival where Speedy resides. Speedy Gonzales is at the carnival attraction "Shoot Speedy" in which people try to shoot Speedy in order to "win a beeg prize." The leader tells Speedy, in Spanish, about the dire situation the mice are in, not having access to the cheese guarded by Sylvester. Speedy agrees. Speedy runs through the wire field between the mice and Sylvester shaking his legs as he yells "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!," and runs past Sylvester, enters the cheese factory and brings back a round of cheese. Sylvester then throws a baseball at the AJAX cheese factory, but it turns out Speedy is inside the baseball, and therefore able to get even more cheese from Sylvester to the mice. Sylvester then tries using landmines and mousetraps, to no avail. Finally, Sylvester gets fed up with Speedy's agility and evasive maneuvers and, having overheard Speedy's dare to grab the entire remaining haul, gets all the cheese from the factory and stacks them up (speaking his only line in the short). Sylvester uses a bomb to blow up all the cheese but the cheese boxes only explode, and much of the cheese lands where the mice are, causing Sylvester to cry and bang his head on an electric pole in frustration. Speedy then says "I like thees pussycat fellow; he's seelly!"

Availability[]

(1984) VHS

Battle Cry

(1985) VHS

A Salute to Friz Freleng

(2000) VHS

Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 3: The Vocal Genius

(2003) DVD

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc Four (restored)

(2003) DVD

Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1, Disc 2

(2004) DVD

Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volume 2

(2004) DVD

Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volumes 1 & 2, Disc 2

(2008) DVD

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 1 (restored)

(2011) Blu-ray

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One (restored)

(2012) DVD

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One (restored)

(2012) Blu-ray

Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1

(2013) DVD

Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes

(2014) DVD

Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2

(2018) DVD

Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack

Streaming[]

iTunes ( - ) (restored)

Notes[]

  • A small scene from this cartoon was used in Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
  • It is the second cartoon to feature the title character, but the first one to feature Speedy in his current design.
  • It won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short of 1956.
    • It is the only short that won an Academy Award that did not receive a Blue Ribbon reissue. However, as "Knighty Knight Bugs" was reissued past Termite Terrace's closure, this short and "Knighty Knight Bugs" are the only shorts that did not have their original titles replaced.

Gallery[]

Lobby card

Lobby card

References[]

External links[]

  • "Speedy Gonzales" at the SFX Resource
HideSpeedy Gonzales Cartoons
1953Cat-Tails for Two
1955Speedy Gonzales
1957Tabasco RoadGonzales' Tamales
1958Tortilla Flaps
1959Mexicali ShmoesHere Today, Gone Tamale
1960West of the Pesos
1961Cannery WoeThe Pied Piper of Guadalupe
1962Mexican Boarders
1963Mexican Cat DanceChili Weather
1964A Message to GraciasNuts and VoltsPancho's HideawayRoad to Andalay
1965It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe Wild ChaseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffyChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1979Fright Before Christmas
1980The Chocolate Chase
HideSylvester Cartoons
1945Life with FeathersPeck Up Your Troubles
1946Kitty Kornered
1947Tweetie PieCrowing PainsDoggone CatsCatch as Cats Can
1948Back Alley OproarI Taw a Putty TatHop, Look and ListenKit for CatScaredy Cat
1949Mouse MazurkaBad Ol' Putty TatHippety Hopper
1950Home, Tweet HomeThe Scarlet PumpernickelAll a Bir-r-r-dCanary RowStooge for a MousePop 'Im Pop!
1951Canned FeudPutty Tat TroubleRoom and BirdTweety's S.O.S.Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952Who's Kitten Who?Gift WrappedLittle Red Rodent HoodAin't She TweetHoppy Go LuckyA Bird in a Guilty CageTree for Two
1953Snow BusinessA Mouse DividedFowl WeatherTom Tom TomcatA Street Cat Named SylvesterCatty CorneredCats A-weigh!
1954Dog PoundedBell HoppyDr. Jerkyl's HideClaws for AlarmMuzzle ToughSatan's Waitin'By Word of Mouse
1955Lighthouse MouseSandy ClawsTweety's CircusJumpin' JupiterA Kiddies KittySpeedy GonzalesRed Riding HoodwinkedHeir-ConditionedPappy's Puppy
1956Too Hop to HandleTweet and SourTree Cornered TweetyThe Unexpected PestTugboat GrannyThe Slap-Hoppy MouseYankee Dood It
1957Tweet ZooTweety and the BeanstalkBirds AnonymousGreedy for TweetyMouse-Taken IdentityGonzales' Tamales
1958A Pizza Tweety-PieA Bird in a Bonnet
1959Trick or TweetTweet and LovelyCat's PawHere Today, Gone TamaleTweet Dreams
1960West of the PesosGoldimouse and the Three CatsHyde and Go TweetMouse and GardenTrip for Tat
1961Cannery WoeHoppy DazeBirds of a FatherD' Fightin' OnesThe Rebel Without ClawsThe Pied Piper of GuadalupeThe Last Hungry Cat
1962Fish and SlipsMexican BoardersThe Jet Cage
1963Mexican Cat DanceChili WeatherClaws in the Lease
1964A Message to GraciasFreudy CatNuts and VoltsHawaiian Aye AyeRoad to Andalay
1965It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseCats and BruisesThe Wild Chase
1966A Taste of Catnip
1980The Yolks on You
1995Carrotblanca
1997Father of the Bird
2011I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
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