The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
| The Great Piggy Bank Robbery | |
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| Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck) series | |
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| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc (All) |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by |
Rod Scribner Manny Gould C. Melendez I. Ellis |
| Layouts by |
Thomas McKimson Credit only: Philip De Guard |
| Backgrounds by | Philip De Guard Credit only: Thomas McKimson |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | July 20, 1946 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:35 |
| Language | English |
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short, produced in early 1945, and released in 1946. It was directed by Robert Clampett, and features Daffy Duck in Clampett's penultimate Warner cartoon, produced shortly before he left the studio. The cartoon is largely a parody of the popular Dick Tracy comic book series.
On a farm, Daffy waits for his new Dick Tracy comic book to the tune of Raymond Scott's song "Powerhouse". The mailman then arrives and he gets the comic book. To the tune of Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant overture, he sprints to a corner of the farm and reads it. Then, he wishes to become Dick Tracy and then knocks himself out by accidentally punching himself while imagining fighting criminals.
He then imagines himself to be "Duck Twacy, the famous duck-tec-a-tive." Ignoring a piggy bank theft crime wave, he goes into action when he learns that his own piggy bank has been stolen from his secure safe. He decides to call Duck Twacy and calls himself before remembering he is Duck Twacy. He calls a taxi to follow a car but it leaves without him, to which he replies 'Keeps them on their toes.' Daffy while looking through a magnifying glass at the pavement, at one point bumps into one Sherlock Holmes who is doing the same thing in the opposite direction, and tells him he is working on this side of the street.
Daffy's search leads him to a tram with Porky as the driver leading to the gangsters' not-so-secret hideout. He falls through a trapdoor when he rings the bell and follows footprints, even climbing up a wall making him think the culprit is the Human Fly, to a mouse-hole. He says the culprit is Mouse Man, however a huge humanoid mouse then comes out, looking positively angry, and the scared Daffy tells him to go back in. He runs away but faces off against all the dangerous criminals in town (many of which are parodies of Dick Tracy's rogues gallery) consisting of Snake Eyes (spoof of B.B. Eyes who has dice for eyes), 88 Teeth (spoof of 88 Keys with piano keys for teeth), Hammerhead (a criminal with a hammer for a head), Pussycat Puss (a monochromatic gangster version of Sylvester), Bat Man (an anthropomorphic baseball bat who is a name parody of the real Batman where DC Comics is now owned by WB), Doubleheader (a two-headed spoof of Tulza "Haf-and-Haf" Tuzon), Pickle Puss (a spoof of Pruneface), Pumpkinhead (a criminal with a pumpkin for a head), Neon Noodle (a neon spoof of Frankenstein), Jukebox Jaw (a criminal with a jukebox speaker for a jaw and a turntable on top of his head), Wolfman (an anthropomorphic wolf criminal), Rubberhead (a pencil eraser-headed criminal), and a host of other unnamed grotesque criminals. He declares "You're all under arrest!" The villains then roar at our hero and the chase begins.
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