Fish Fry (film)

Fish Fry
Directed byJames Culhane
Story byBen Hardaway
Milt Schaffer
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringWalter Tetley
Lionel Stander
(both uncredited)
Music byMusical direction:
Darrell Calker
Animation byVerne Harding
Emery Hawkins
Uncredited animation:
Pat Matthews
Les Kline
Paul Smith
Dick Lundy
Milt Schaffer
Don Williams[1]
Layouts byArt Heineman
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 19, 1944 (1944-06-19)[2]
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Fish Fry is a 1944 Andy Panda cartoon directed by James Culhane and produced by Walter Lantz Productions. The plot centers around a street cat's endless attempts to eat Andy's goldfish after ordering it from a pet shop.

Plot

Andy Panda is attracted by a cute little goldfish in a pet shop window, buys it, and starts to take it home, but he is stalked by a mangy, hungry alley cat who wants to eat it. The cat tries to catch fish the by sneaking up and grabbing it, then by disguising himself as a thirst-crazed desert traveler, and finally, by crude by effective brute force. In his haste, the cat loses the fish down the gutter, then retrieves it only to lose it again after trying to cook it. After escaping from the cement mixer that he was kicked into, Andy catches the fish and is promptly chases back to the pet shop. The cat's ambush outside the shop is foiled by a big bulldog at Andy's side who disposes of the cat without lifting an eyebrow.

Notes

Home media

References

  1. ^ "Walter Lantz' "Fish Fry" (1944) -". cartoonresearch.com. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  2. ^ "The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1944". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Fish Fry (Walter Lantz Productions)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 18 November 2020.[dead link]