Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
About Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
Piggy pilots a river steamboat while his girlfriend Fluffy rides up in a carriage driven by a doglike Uncle Tom. Piggy dances on the rail, falls overboard, and escapes an alligator by using his tail as a propeller on a log. Uncle Tom's donkey throws him into a cemetery, where skeletons sing at him. He runs, falls in the river, and Piggy goes after him.
Cast & crew
More about Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
Rudolf Ising directed the fifth Merrie Melodies short, released November 14, 1931, and Piggy's last theatrical cartoon. Frank Marsales wrote the music. Ken Darby, Marcellite Garner, Johnny Murray, and the King's Men are billed on the catalog.
Themes
Music
Frank Marsales composed the music.
Preservation
The short survives and was kept out of the 1968 television package.
Notes
- Wikipedia describes the steamboat opening as an unsubtle reference to Steamboat Willie (1928).
- United Artists withheld the short from television syndication in 1968 because of blackface stereotypes and the racial epithet in the Uncle Tom character. It is one of the Censored Eleven.
- Fluffy is Piggy's girlfriend in the short.
Scenes
- Piggy's tail spins a log away from the alligator.
- Skeletons sing at Uncle Tom in the cemetery.
Influenced by
- Steamboat Willie (1928)
Also available
- Internet Archive (MerrieMelodies-HittinTheTrailForHallelujahLand)
- Wikimedia Commons (Hittin' The Trail For Hallelujah Land.webm)
