Much Ado About Mutton
About Much Ado About Mutton
Wolfie is hungry for lamb chops and snatches two of Uncle Blackie's white nephews. Blackie runs him off and brings the lambs back. Still empty, the wolf dresses as Little Boy Blue and tries the same theft again. Blackie spoils that disguise too.
Cast & crew
More about Much Ado About Mutton
Isadore Sparber directed the Noveltoon, with animation by Dave Tendlar and Tom Golden. Joe Stultz and Carl Meyer wrote it. Paramount released it on July 18, 1947.
Themes
Making
The second attack is a costume gag rather than another grab: Wolfie comes back dressed as Little Boy Blue.
Music
Winston Sharples's music sits under spoken lines from Sid Raymond, Arnold Stang, and Cecil Roy.
Preservation
A restored print was included on Thunderbean's Noveltoons set. The copyright was not renewed.
Notes
- The title swaps mutton into Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- Sid Raymond is Wolfie, Arnold Stang is Blackie, and Cecil Roy is the nephews.
- Last Noveltoon built around Blackie the Lamb. He makes a cameo the same year in the Screen Song The Circus Comes to Clown.
- U.M. & M. took the pre-October 1950 Paramount cartoons, and successor NTA let this 1947 title lapse.
Scenes
- Wolfie grabs two lambs and Blackie takes them back.
- The wolf returns dressed as Little Boy Blue.
Also available
- DVD: Noveltoons Original Classics (2012, Thunderbean Animation)
- Blu-ray: Noveltoons Original Classics (2019, Thunderbean Animation)
