- This article is about the 1931 cartoon. For the 1964 cartoon of the same name, see Dumb Patrol (1964 short).
Dumb Patrol is a 1931 Looney Tunes short directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.
Title[]
The title is a play on The Dawn Patrol, a 1930 movie by Howard Hawks. The same title would be later used for an unrelated 1964 Bugs Bunny short.
Plot[]
In the middle of a battleground, Bosko is tidying his plane despite the various explosions caused from the dropped bombs in the dogfight above. A fearsome beast, in his armored plane, drops a bomb at where Bosko is, prompting Bosko to start a dogfight against the beast. However, Bosko ends up losing when his own machine gun doesn't affect the armored plane, while the beast counters using a heavy artillery cannon.
Bosko's plane is destroyed right in mid-air, and Bosko lands on the keys of a piano and is rebounded to a pajama hanging on a clothespin. Bosko meets Honey, a French girl who happens to be skipping by. Bosko impresses her by playing a piano, but the fearsome beast interrupts his performance by throwing a bomb on him.
Bosko uses a dachshund for an airplane by having its head spin around like a propeller. Now, holding a homemade machine gun and the pickets from a picket fence for bullets, Bosko actually manages to damage the beast's plane. The beast tries to use his artillery cannon again, but the dachshund swallows the cannonball. Bosko is able to have the dog spit the cannonball back at the beast's plane, destroying it and reducing it into many smaller planes that are backed off by insecticide.
Availability[]
Safe in Hell (restored)
Streaming[]
Notes[]
- This cartoon entered the public domain in 1959 due to Sunset Productions not renewing the copyright in time.
- While oiling his plane, Bosko can be heard whistling in the tune of "Get Happy". The song would be later used as the initial Merrie Melodies theme tune until Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising left the studio.