A Peck o' Trouble (1953)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert McKimson

Writer:

Tedd Pierce (story)

Release Date:

28 March 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Lazy Dodsworth the Cat wants to catch a woodpecker for his breakfast. The woodpecker has built its home inside the upper trunk of a tree...

Plot Keywords:

Woodpecker | Kitten | Professor | Dodsworth The Cat | Looney Tunes

Cast

Mel Blanc	...	The Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
Sheldon Leonard	...	Dodsworth (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Quotes:

[First lines]
Dodsworth: [after the woodpecker pecks him] Serves me right. Should have known better. Why, for generations none of us Dodsworths have ever stooped to physical effort to obtain his breakfast.

Movie Connections:

Follows Kiddin' the Kitten (1952)

Soundtrack:

Blues in the Night

Superior McKimson

A strong script and excellent voice work by Sheldon Leonard make this a cartoon worth seeing. Part of the short-lived "Dodsworth" series -- I've only seen two of them -- about a fat, lazy cat that keeps suckering a mewing kitten into doing his work for him, Dodsworth somehow turns into a dead ringer for Rodney Dangerfield twenty years before anyone had heard about him!