Bosko the Doughboy
About Bosko the Doughboy
In a World War I trench, Bosko's pan of food is blown up and a shell punches through his picture of Honey. A dachshund's fleas are knocked out when enemy fire hits its helmet. Bosko feeds a bomb to the dog so it can knock a pelican bomber out of the sky, then unzips a hippo who has swallowed another bomb.
Cast & crew
More about Bosko the Doughboy
Hugh Harman directed the fourteenth Bosko Looney Tune. Rollin Hamilton and Max Maxwell animated it. Warner Bros. and Vitaphone distributed it. The earliest listed release date is 10 October 1931.
Themes
Background
Released in 1931, it sets a Looney Tunes cartoon in the trenches of the 1914–18 war.
Making
Harman-Ising made it for Leon Schlesinger as a Vitaphone short, with the trench gags played by cartoon animals rather than soldiers in uniform.
Music
Frank Marsales composed the score. A cow soldier plays a harmonica, and the tiles under him become a keyboard.
Preservation
It is included on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD.
Notes
- Johnny Murray and Rudolf Ising are the uncredited voices.
- Frank Marsales wrote the score.
- A bomb interrupts the meal, and gunfire ruins Honey's portrait.
- The short is on disc 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6.
Scenes
- Artillery destroys Bosko's pan of food and then Honey's picture.
- The dachshund swallows a bomb and knocks the pelican out of the air.
- Bosko unzips the hippo and pulls the bomb back out.
Also available
- Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 (disc 2)
