Hells Heels
About Hells Heels
Oswald and two dogs come to Heela City to rob the bank. They make him blow it with dynamite. The blast turns the dogs into skeletons. The safe is still there. He turns the dial and gets a radio announcement, then the bulldog sheriff. The sheriff runs him into the desert, where a baby in a basket says, in a grown voice, that the sheriff is his father. The baby makes Oswald go back.
Cast & crew
More about Hells Heels
Walter Lantz directed. Released June 2, 1930. It is a take on Universal's 1929 feature Hell's Heroes. James Dietrich's first cartoon score. One dog has an eye patch and the other a peg leg.
Themes
Music
James Dietrich's first score for Lantz. The track uses Irving Berlin's "The Near Future," "Rock-a-Bye Baby," and Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Preservation
A print survives. It is the earliest Lantz cartoon to have been restored.
Notes
- The skeletons are the two dogs, not Oswald.
- The safe plays a time signal before the sheriff climbs out.
- Some lists misname it Nell's Yells, which is a 1939 Columbia cartoon.
- The baby talks. He does not cry the sheriff back into town.
Scenes
- The dogs come out of the blast as skeletons.
- The baby tells Oswald the sheriff is his father.
