Bunco Busters

Bunco Busters
Woody Woodpecker series
Directed by Paul J. Smith
Produced by Walter Lantz
Voices by Grace Stafford
Dal McKennon
Music by Clarence Wheeler
Animation by Robert Bentley
Herman R. Cohen
Gil Turner
Backgrounds by Art Landy
Studio Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by Universal International
Release date(s)
  • November 21, 1955 (1955-11-21) (U.S.)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 6' 08"
Language English
Preceded by Square Shootin' Square
Followed by The Tree Medic

Bunco Busters is the 64th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 21, 1955, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

Plot

Captain Haddock from the Bunco Squad (Dal McKennon) serves as narrator, telling the viewing audience about "The Case of the Gullible Woodpecker." Woody (Grace Stafford) inherits a fortune and Con-man Buzz Buzzard (McKennon) decides to use every trick he can to swindle him out of his new wealth (including using a phony treasure map). Woody gets it back in the end when Buzz crashes through the ceiling and lands in a filing cabinet in the office of Captain Haddock, who "closes the file" on the case.

Notes

Quotes

Bunco Busters contains one of the most memorable quotes in the Woody Woodpecker canon:

References

  1. Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1955". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.

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