The Suicide Sheik
About The Suicide Sheik
Oswald and his girlfriend, called Miss Cottontail in the copyright synopsis and later known as Ortensia, walk through a flower field. He asks her to marry him and she turns him down. He tries to kill himself with a falling safe, a cannonball, and a rope, and each attempt fails. He then hears her call from a burning house and pulls her out. The reunion wipes out the quarrel.
Cast & crew
More about The Suicide Sheik
Hugh Harman directed this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short for a Winkler production. An Oswald filmography dates the release March 18, 1929, and counts it as the 41st Oswald short. It is the earliest known surviving Oswald sound cartoon that still has its soundtrack, and the only known Winkler-era Oswald to survive with sound.
Themes
Music
A sound cartoon from the Winkler period.
Preservation
It is the earliest known surviving Oswald sound cartoon that retains its soundtrack, and the only known Winkler-era Oswald short to survive with sound.
Notes
- The copyright synopsis names the girl Miss Cottontail. Later Oswald references call her Ortensia.
- Pete has a small part. Bunny children appear.
- The failed attempts named in plot summaries are a falling safe, cannon fire, and a hanging rope.
Scenes
- Oswald proposes in the flower field and is refused.
- A safe, a cannonball, and a rope each fail to finish him.
- He pulls Miss Cottontail out of the burning house.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in SUICIDE SHEIK (1929).webm)
