The Magic Fluke
- Studio
- UPA Productions
- Distributor
- Columbia Pictures
Synopsis
Featuring the duo of Lips Fox and His Hot One. Lips decides to leave his partner for bigger and better things, and he refuses to even talk to his old pal. Lips, now known as Foxini, needs a baton for his first big performance. His old nightclub pal makes the mistake of taking a magician's magic wand and giving it to the fox. Foxini gets what's coming to him as his show runs into trouble.
Characters
Fox, Crow
Credits
Directing
- Director
- John Hubley
Producing
- Producer
- Stephen Bosustow, Ed Gershman
- Supervising Producer
- Ade Woolery Adrian Woolery
Writing
- Writer
- Sol Barzman
Voices
- Voice
- Frank Graham (Fox [uncredited]), Paul Frees (Crow [uncredited])
Music
- Music
- Del Castillo
Animation
Crew
- Designers
- Jules Engel, Bill Hurtz William T. Hurtz, Herb Klynn Herbert Klynn
- Technical
- Mary Cain, Max Morgan
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Subject (Cartoon), Stephen Bosustow, 1950.
Nominee, BAFTA Film Award, Best Animated Film, 1958
Nominee, BAFTA Film Award, Best Animated Film, 1958
Reviews
Magical Musical Mayhem
For my money, this has to be the funniest of "The Fox and The Crow" series. The big difference is that instead of their usual adversarial relationship, the Fox and Crow are partners in a dance band where the Fox conducts and the Crow plays all the instruments. And even when the Fox breaks up the act to conduct a symphony orchestra, the Crow wishes him well and, when the Fox loses his baton, tries to help by finding a replacement. He steals a magician's wand, leading to an assortment of clever gags as the Fox tries to pretend that strange things happening around him are not occurring. And when all has gone astray, the Crow replaces the orchestra with his one man band collection of instruments. Hilarious from beginning to end.