Hungry Hoboes
About Hungry Hoboes
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Peg Leg Pete ride a freight car of cows and chickens and play checkers until a chicken sets them thinking of eggs. Oswald pulls the hen's head off, takes two eggs out, and Pete cooks them by dragging Oswald until his pants catch fire. A policeman chases them on a bicycle. Pete dresses Oswald as a monkey and cranks a box of animals as if it were a street organ, the animals bolt, and the two hobos jump another train.
Cast & crew
More about Hungry Hoboes
Walt Disney directed and wrote this Oswald short. Charles Mintz and George Winkler produced it for Winkler Pictures. Universal released it on May 14, 1928.
Themes
Preservation
A print turned up at Huntley Film Archives in Herefordshire in November 2011 and runs 5 minutes 21 seconds. The Walt Disney Company bought it for $31,250. It was shown again at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2012.
Notes
- Clarabelle, billed here as Bessie, is one of the cows that interrupt the checkers game.
- The dog, cat, and pig stuffed into the organ-grinder box are what give the disguise away.
Scenes
- Pete holds the skillet over Oswald's burning trousers.
- The animals burst out of the organ-grinder box.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Hungry Hoboes (1928) silent.webm)
