Viva Buddy
| Viva Buddy | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Buddy) series | |
| Directed by | Jack King |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by | Jack Carr, Billy Bletcher (both uncredited) |
| Music by | Norman Spencer |
| Animation by | Frank Tipper, Cal Dalton |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | December 12, 1934 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 6 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Buddy the Detective (1934) |
| Followed by | Buddy the Woodsman (1934) |
Viva Buddy is an American animated short film, released December 12, 1934 (though one source gives as a date September 29). It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Jack King; musical direction was by Norman Spencer.
The film opens to Buddy, who, ambling through a Mexican town, strums a guitar and sings "Monterey" (to the tune of "Madrid"). He walks off of a balcony and falls on the myriad hats worn by a hat salesman, trapping him therein. A swift kick in the pants from Buddy, and the salesman is on his way. Buddy attempts to enter the sleepy Cantina El Moocher, but is physically rebuffed by the enormity of snores within, and compelled instead to enter through an open window. Everywhere, men sleep, even at a checkers table, where jumping beans play for them. Buddy slips one of the lively beans into the mouth of a man at the bar's piano, and he begins to play with his toes. The people are roused by this, and begin happily dancing & drinking; a makeshift mariachi band plays in tune. Buddy is apparently able to play his guitar with his teeth; his guitar can also play itself; Buddy also can play while his feet hang in the air!
Enter the Pancho, who does some fancy gunwork to frighten the townsfolk and ties up his horse by shooting a hole through a stake and tying the horse's tail through the hole. The villain steps into the saloon and starts firing; the patrons (except Buddy) shout: "Pancho!" "Pancho!" "Pancho!" (and then, from a bed that folds out from the wall, in succession, the four Marx brothers: "Zeppo!" "Harpo!" "Chico!" "Groucho!").
But Pancho makes a mistake in shooting and destroying Buddy's banana. Our indignant hero boldly squeezes the remainder of the fruit in his adversary's face. Pancho puts one of his guns to Buddy's head, but declares that he likes the little fellow, and commands him to play the piano (into which he has been backed.) Cookie, heretofore absent, begins to dance to Buddy's tune, "Famabella". Pancho proves himself a dancer as well, to the anger of an upstaged Cookie, and requests a kiss from her. Of course, the scoundrel winds up with his backside through the canteen door, and back again into the canteen by the fury of a cranky goat.
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