The Booze Hangs High
About The Booze Hangs High
Bosko dances with a cow, plays a horse's tail like a cello, and picks a pitchfork like a banjo while ducks bounce in time. He dumps a trash can into a trough for three pigs. A piglet opens a bottle of liquor with another pig's tail, and the bubbles pop out "How Dry I Am." The pigs get drunk, the bottle breaks on Bosko's head, and he joins them in "Sweet Adeline." The father pig belches up a corncob, opens his stomach like a door, and puts the cob back.
Cast & crew
More about The Booze Hangs High
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising directed and produced the fourth Bosko short in the Looney Tunes series. Isadore Freleng and Paul J. Smith animated it. Warner Bros. Pictures and Vitaphone distributed it. It was screened by 9 September 1930 and released as early as 20 September 1930.
Themes
Background
Prohibition was still in force in 1930. The short treats a bottle of booze as a farmyard gag.
Making
Harman and Ising had left Disney and were making Bosko for Leon Schlesinger's Warner release. The barnyard instruments are drawn to the Vitaphone track.
Music
Frank Marsales arranged the score around "How Dry I Am," "Sweet Adeline," and "One Little Drink."
Preservation
A complete black-and-white print survives.
Notes
- The title parodies "The Goose Hangs High," a song from the operetta film Song of the Flame, which also supplies the father pig's "One Little Drink," sung in that film by Noah Beery.
- The cartoon opens on the rear of a cow, a gag Harman and Ising had used on Plane Crazy.
- Frank Marsales wrote the music.
- The short is in black and white and runs 6 minutes 9 seconds.
Scenes
- Bosko tunes the horse by twisting its ear and bows the tail like a cello.
- A piglet uses another pig's tail as a corkscrew.
- The father pig opens his belly, puts a corncob back, and shuts the door.
Influenced by
- Song of the Flame (1930)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
