The Bully's End
About The Bully's End
A vain rooster bullies a farmer, the family, and the barnyard. He knocks out a peacock he thinks has been with one of his hens, then beats a drake and takes the duck. Runty Duck calls him out. The rooster gets drunk on gasoline while the other animals hold a party for the fight. Runty has the better of the bout and knocks the rooster out. The yard carries Runty off on their shoulders.
Cast & crew
More about The Bully's End
An Aesop's Film Fables short produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren and released by RKO on June 16, 1933. Harry Bailey directed. Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic is the source the Internet Animation Database cites for that credit. Gene Rodemich wrote the music, matching the on-screen credit.
Themes
Background
By 1933 the Aesop series had moved from silent fables into sound cartoons still built on a barnyard cast and a short fight.
Making
Van Beuren was releasing these one-reel fables through RKO in 1933, with Rodemich scoring a large share of the studio's cartoons that year. Bailey's name is on the direction credit Maltin records.
Music
Gene Rodemich composed the score, credited on screen.
Preservation
A restored copy was prepared for home video. Thunderbean included it on the Aesop's Fables Volume 1 Blu-ray.
Notes
- It belongs to Van Beuren's Aesop's Fables series, near the end of the sound shorts.
- The rooster's jealousy gag is an infidelity joke played on barnyard animals.
- He drinks gasoline before the fight, not barnyard cider.
- Thunderbean cleaned a print for the Aesop's Fables Volume 1 Blu-ray.
- The Internet Animation Database places it between Barking Dogs and Indian Whoopee in the series order.
- A Wikimedia file of a restored copy runs 6 minutes 58 seconds.
Scenes
- The rooster floors a peacock over a hen.
- He drinks gasoline while the other animals party ahead of the fight.
- Runty Duck knocks him out and is carried through the yard.
Also available
- Thunderbean Aesop's Fables Volume 1 Blu-ray
