A Hound For Trouble
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Charlie stows away to Italy, where he looks for a good, English-speaking master.
Characters
Charlie Dog, Italian Characters, Italian Waiter, Customer
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, John Carey
- Layouts
- Robert Gribbroek
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Philip De Guard
Production notes
The fifth and last Charlie Dog cartoon. Charlie Dog appears 7 years later in a brief cameo in Robert McKimson's 1958 short: "Dog Tales."
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Songs include: "Attsa Matta For You" (Michael Maltese), Performed by Charlie Dog.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Songs include: "Attsa Matta For You" (Michael Maltese), Performed by Charlie Dog.
Reviews
A Hound for Trouble
One of the best cartoons ever made, it should be more readily available to all viewers, on TV... I want to rate this cartoon a 10 but the system says the max is 5 ???
A Hound For Trouble
Fantastic, funny, witty cartoon. This is classic Charlie Dog, without Porky. Charlie's comedic character comes through with continuous laughs. The perennial clown, he searches for an owner and in true Charlie fashion, makes his mind up and goes overboard. I've laughed all the way through each time I've watched it. The waitering, the grape crushing too the signing, it's absolutely hysterical. But in the end, poor Charlie is outsmarted. I think he should have been voted best actor!
A Hound For Trouble
You eat-a my ravioli and-a my pasta fazoola too/I'm-a give-a you cacciatore and-a pizza dat's good to chew/At'sa matta, you know like-a me?/HEY! At'sa matta fa you!
OK, I've just proved I spent far too many hours in front of the tube as a child. Oh well.
This one's a keeper. The 2nd best of the Charlie Dog shorts.
A Hound For Trouble
Another classic episode of that loveable charlie dog, but this time he's in Italy trying to persuade a Ristorante' owner that he needs a dog.