One Droopy Knight

One Droopy Knight is a 1957 animated short subject in the Droopy series,[6] directed by Michael Lah and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in CinemaScope.[5]

One Droopy Knight
Directed byMichael Lah[1]
Story byHomer Brightman
Produced byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera[2]
Frederick Quimby[3]
StarringBill Thompson
(as Droopy)[4]
Edited byJim Faris[2]
Music byScott Bradley
Hoyt Curtin (musical supervisor, uncredited)
Animation byKen Southworth
Irvin Spence
Bill Schipek
Herman Cohen
Layouts byEd Benedict
Backgrounds byF. Montealegre
Color processTechnicolor[2]
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • December 6, 1957 (1957-12-06)
Running time
6 minutes 49 seconds[5]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Essentially a remake of 1949's Señor Droopy, but taking place in a medieval setting rather than the country of Mexico, One Droopy Knight casts Droopy and his rival Butch as medieval knights out to slay a dragon and win the hand of a beautiful human princess. However, the dragon considers both as nothing more than minor nuisances. Droopy, though, takes more chances to slay the dragon, but it thinks Droopy is small and harmless. Meanwhile, Butch is being foiled after being molded into a metal can.

Droopy, however, easily removes the dragon from his cave (without harming him) and bangs a flail on the dragon's tail and says, "Take that, you no-good dragon!" Once again, the dragon single-handedly flicks Droopy away. Butch comes back riding on a horse. Suddenly, the dragon blows fire on Butch and the horse, leaving them naked.

Butch gives up and goes away, while Droopy stands and cries looking at a picture of the princess. The dragon draws a French moustache on the photo and laughs in amusement. Droopy calmly gets mad and says "Mr. Dragon, that makes me mad." Then, he beats up the dragon and wins the heart of the princess. Finally, at the palace, Droopy reads the ending of the story of the dragon and closes the book. He kisses the princess's hand, then takes up a cigar to show her about smoking, and Droopy gives the cigar a blow, the dragon comes up, and breathes fire on it. The result is smoke coming out from the cigar when Droopy smokes it before revealing this to the princess.

Reception

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1958,[5] but lost to Birds Anonymous, a Sylvester & Tweety cartoon from Warner Bros.[7][8]

References
  1. Letterboxd
  2. Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. TCM.com
  4. "One Droopy Knight (1957): Cast". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  5. "One Droopy Knight (1957): Main". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  6. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  7. "Awards for One Droopy Knight". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
  8. Short Subject Winners: 1958 Oscars-YouTube
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