Mexicali Shmoes
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Two cats, Jose and Manuel (The Mexicali Shmoes), decide that the best way to catch Speedy is with their brains. The two stupid cats try to catch Speedy while playing and singing their music (and by smashing him with their guitars). Needless to say, they wind up with all of the smashing.
Characters
Speedy Gonzales, Jose, Manuel, Slowpoke Rodriguez
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Isadore Freleng (as Friz Freleng)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Seltzer
Writing
- Writer
- Warren Foster
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Speedy Gonzales, Jose), Tom Holland (Manuel, Slowpoke Rodriguez)
Music
- Music
- Milt Franklyn
Animation
- Animator
- Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis
- Layouts
- Hawley Pratt
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Tom O'Loughlin
Editing
- Editor
- Treg Brown
Production notes
The first of two appearances of Speedy's cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez; the other is in "Mexican Boarders" (1962).
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Subject (Cartoon), 1960
Pictures
Reviews
Mexicali Shmoes
Probably the second-best Speedy cartoon--next ony to "Gonazles' Tamales." I always liked Jose & Manuel better as cats than as crows.
A fitting farewell to Warren Foster--one of his best-ever scripts. Exemplary work from animators Virgil Ross (the opening & closing dialogue sequences) and Gerry Chiniquy (when Manuel carries Jose over the minefield).
Mexicali Shmoes
One of Warren Foster's best scripts ever. A quite-fitting farewell to a great W-B writer, who'd join Hanna-Barbera for their neat early cartoons.
(Mike Maltese eventually joined him.)
I like Jose & Manuel better as cats than as crows.