Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Tex Avery

Release Date:

8 May 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Short

Plot:

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as an adult nightclub dancer.

Plot Keywords:

Wolf | Little Red Riding Hood | Nightclub | Singer | Spotlight

Cast

Bea Benaderet	...	Grandma (voice) (uncredited)
Daws Butler	...	Wolf Howl (voice) (uncredited)
Colleen Collins	...	Red (voice) (uncredited)
June Foray	...	Cigarette Girls (voice) (uncredited)
Frank Graham	...	Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | UK:U | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | USA:Approved

Company:

Loew's

Trivia:

Contrary to popular belief, Red Hot Riding Hood was not rotoscoped - she was drawn from scratch.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Good evening, kiddies. Once upon a time, Little Red Riding Hood was skipping through the woods. She was going to her grandmother's house to take grandma a basket of nice goodies. But waiting in the woods was a mean old wolf ready to pounce upon poor Little Red Riding Hood.
Wolf: Oh, stop it! "Waiting in the woods was the mean old wolf ready to pounce on poor Red Riding Hood." I'm fed up with that sissy stuff. It's the same old story over and over. If you can't do this thing a new way, Bud, I quit!

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Soundtrack:

Daddy

Genius - they certainly don't make'em like this any more

Nope - they sure don't make'em like this any more. But modern-day animators working on pixillated mega-productions owe Tex Avery and his "Termite Terrace" co-workers a large debt. Rather than retell The Avery story (there are several books around that will do that), just look out for his classic MGM cartoons of the '40s and '50s, and marvel at the genius on show. "Red Hot Riding Hood" is one of his best and was the first in the "Red" series. It's an out-and-out classic, with a plot loosely based on the children's fairy tale playing second fiddle to beautifully drawn and animated scenes and some fantastic big-band music. The visual pacing in this toon is so fast that if you blink you'll miss another screwball gag. Look for it on TV (yes it does still get shown, in the UK at least) or even better, go see it at the movies. Great stuff and I never tire of it.