Red Hot Riding Hood
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Theatrical poster to Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby (uncredited) |
| Story by | Tex Avery (uncredited) |
| Voices by |
Frank Graham (Narrator, Wolf, Showroom Announcer) Elvia Allman (Grandma) Sara Berner (Red Hot Riding Hood) Connie Russell (Red Hot Riding Hood, singing voice) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Preston Blair Ray Abrams Ed Love Irven Spence (all uncredited) |
| Layouts by | Claude Smith |
| Studio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Distributed by |
Turner Entertainment Co. Warner Bros. Entertainment |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | N/A |
| Followed by | Swing Shift Cinderella |
Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released with the movie Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case on May 8, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994 it was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, making it the highest ranked MGM cartoon on the list. It is one of Avery's most popular cartoons, inspiring several of his own "sequel" shorts as well as influencing other cartoons and feature films for years afterward.
The story begins with the standard version of Little Red Riding Hood (with the wolf from Dumb-Hounded, the cartoon which saw the debut of Avery's Droopy). The characters rebel at this stale and derivative staging of the story and demand a fresh approach. The annoyed narrator accedes to their demands and starts the story again in a dramatically different arrangement.
The story begins again, now told in a contemporary urban setting. The narrator explains that Little Red Riding Hood (now portrayed as an adult) is an attractive performer in a Hollywood nightclub under the stage name "Red Hot Riding Hood," and the Big Bad Wolf, now a Hollywood swinger, follows Red to the club where she's performing. Red performs onstage (a rendition of the 1941 classic hit song "Daddy" by Bobby Troup) and the wolf goes mad with desire. He brings her to his table and tries wooing her, but she wants nothing to do with him. Red escapes the Wolf, saying she's going to her Grandma's place, but nevertheless the Wolf manages to get there first. Grandma's place is a penthouse at the top of a skyscraper. Red's grandma is an oversexed man-chaser who falls head over heels for the Wolf (upon seeing him, she whistles and says, "At last a wolf! Yahoo!").
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