Dog Gone South

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Dog Gone South

Directed By: Chuck Jones Produced By: Eddie Selzer (uncredited) Released: August 26, 1950 Series: Merrie Melodies Story: Michael Maltese Animation: Phil Monroe Ben Washam Ken Harris Lloyd Vaughan Emery Hawkins Layouts: Robert Gribbroek Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard Film Editor: Treg Brown (uncredited) Voiced By: Mel Blanc Music: Carl Stalling= Starring: Charlie Dog Colonel Train Passenger Belvedere Preceded By: Hillbilly Hare Succeeded By: The Ducksters Dog Gone South

Dog Gone South is a 1950 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot

Charlie Dog is in search of a master as always. He travels to the South (where he gets kicked off a train near a sign reading "Welcome to Platt Falls"), and eventually finds a plantation that he would enjoy living on. He wants the owner, a Confederate Colonel, to be his owner, but the Colonel happens to already have a dog, a bulldog named Belvedere, and is put off by Charlie's overbearing personality and obnoxiousness.

Availability

• DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 1 (Original opening titles restored)
• DVD - Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6, Disc 1 (Original opening titles restored)
• Blu-ray, DVD - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc 1 (Blue Ribbon Reissue)
• Streaming - HBO Max

Notes

• The original print is copyrighted MCML (1950), while the reissue print is copyrighted MCMXLIX (1949).
• Belvedere the Bulldog physically resembles Hector the Bulldog, but with yellow fur and super-deformed back legs shorter than its front legs, so short that they stay mid-air when it walks on all fours.
• This cartoon marks the second and final classic appearance of Colonel Shuffle.
• Charlie, when Colonel Shuffle threatens him late in the short, claims his aunt is from South Boston, Alabama. While there is no South Boston, Alabama (there is one in Virginia); there is a Boston, Alabama (also known as West Greene among other things); an unincorporated community in Alabama's Greene County.

Gallery

Original Opening

Original Opening 2

CLICK! CLICK!

"Ah said, a-way down south!"

"Watch me endear myself into a good home."

"YANKEE???!!!"

Original Ending