The Leghorn Blows at Midnight is a 1950 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
Title[]
The title is a play on the 1945 Warner Bros. film The Horn Blows at Midnight.
Plot[]
Foghorn and Barnyard Dawg goes on their usual duel as Henery Hawk stumbles upon the barn. Henery wrangles Dawg as the chickenhawk confuses the dog as a chicken. However, Dawg points out to Henery that he needs to go after Foghorn, and can do so by setting up curious traps.
Henery builds a pumpkin catapult, which Foghorn helps out. After being given a match, Henery starts to activate the catapult. Foghorn walks away, then wonders why a pumpkin is tied to a rope; before he could finish, the pumpkin is flung right into his head, sending rolling into the wall remarking, "Ask a silly question! Get a silly answer!" Henery drags him by the toe and Foghorn yells him to let go of his toe and he removes the pumpkin from his head and begs him not take him. Foghorn then fools the chicken hawk into going after a "pheasant under glass," the Dawg.
Sending a glass cover over, Henery smashes the dog with the cover, causing him to run out of his doghouse barking while Foghorn continues his antics with the dog. Foghorn applies "vanishing cream" on Henery to pretend that the chickenhawk is invisible, but the cream itself only vanishes. Needless to say, Dawg is quick to chase after the chickenhawk until he gets choked by his leash.
Finally, Henery comes back up to Dawg, but Dawg convinces him of a plan to get Foghorn instead. Dawg barks to alert Foghorn where he is, and when Foghorn arrives, Dawg steals his metal cover and hammer and bangs his head on it. Realizing that he has been hornswoggled, the two begins to fight. As Henery watches the duel, he has set up a boiling cauldron where he plans to fricassee the loser.
Television[]
- The Bugs Bunny Show (1960-1968; 1971-1975)
- The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour (1968-1971; 1975-1976)
- The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show (1976-1985)
- Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988-1989; 1992-1995; 1998-1999)
- Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends [Syndication] (1990-1992)
- The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1995-1997)
- Acme Hour [Cartoon Network] (1999-2003)
- The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1999-2004)
- The Bugs Bunny Show [Boomerang] (2000-2002)
- The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001-2004)
- Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003-2005; 2013-present)
- Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network (2011-2015)
- Bugs Bunny and Friends [Me TV] (2021-present)
- Toon In with Me [Me TV] (2021-present)
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Censorship[]
ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show edited the following scenes:[3]
- Barnyard Dawg getting strangled by his rope after getting pied in the face was replaced with a shot of Foghorn Leghorn sitting on a fence and looking off-screen, though the other scenes of Barnyard Dawg getting strangled by his rope were left intact.
- The fight near the end between Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg, going immediately to Henery Hawk cheering them on after Foghorn says, "I've been, I say, I've been hornswoggled."
Notes[]
- Beginning from this cartoon, Foghorn is taller and a little thinner compared to his earliest appearances in the 1940s cartoons, while still retaining a plump gut and stature.
- After Foghorn sends Henry off for the final time, at the 5 minute and 54 second mark, he very briefly looks towards the camera and opens his mouth before the next shot is shown, almost as if there was a line which got cut during production, perhaps for pacing reasons.
Gallery[]
TV Title Cards[]
References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/boxofficebaromet00boxo_7/page/152/mode/2up
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/1976motionpictur3301213libr/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater
- ↑ The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page: K-L http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx
Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons | ||||
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1946 | Walky Talky Hawky | |||
1947 | Crowing Pains | |||
1948 | The Foghorn Leghorn | |||
1949 | Henhouse Henery | |||
1950 | The Leghorn Blows at Midnight • A Fractured Leghorn | |||
1951 | Leghorn Swoggled • Lovelorn Leghorn | |||
1952 | Sock a Doodle Do • The EGGcited Rooster | |||
1953 | Plop Goes the Weasel! • Of Rice and Hen | |||
1954 | Little Boy Boo | |||
1955 | Feather Dusted • All Fowled Up | |||
1956 | Weasel Stop • The High and the Flighty • Raw! Raw! Rooster! | |||
1957 | Fox-Terror | |||
1958 | Feather Bluster • Weasel While You Work | |||
1959 | A Broken Leghorn | |||
1960 | Crockett-Doodle-Do • The Dixie Fryer | |||
1961 | Strangled Eggs | |||
1962 | The Slick Chick • Mother Was a Rooster | |||
1963 | Banty Raids | |||
1964 | False Hare | |||
1980 | The Yolks on You | |||
1996 | Superior Duck | |||
1997 | Pullet Surprise | |||
2004 | Cock-a-Doodle Duel |
Henery Hawk Cartoons | ||||
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1942 | The Squawkin' Hawk | |||
1946 | Walky Talky Hawky | |||
1947 | Crowing Pains | |||
1948 | You Were Never Duckier • The Foghorn Leghorn | |||
1949 | Henhouse Henery | |||
1950 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel • The Leghorn Blows at Midnight | |||
1951 | Leghorn Swoggled | |||
1952 | The EGGcited Rooster | |||
1955 | All Fowled Up | |||
1961 | Strangled Eggs |