Credits:
Supervision by - Hugh Harman / Isadore Freleng
Drawn by - Isadore Freleng, Max
Maxwell
Musical Score by - Frank Marsales
Summary:
Bosko runs a movie
theater.
Description:
The deep sounds of
"42nd Street" play over the title, which fades directly into
a shot of the exterior of Bosko's movie theater. Inside, two curtains
raise and a set of barn doors open with much fanfare, revealing the theater's
screen. A card is projected that reads "Featuring Bosko at the console
of the mighty Furtilizer organ". Bosko and the organ rise up out
of a door in the floor, and Bosko greets the audience by shouting "Howdy,
howdy, howdy folks! Let's sing!". He begins to play "We're in
the Money", while the words appear on the screen so that the audience
can sing along. At the conclusion of the song Bosko pulls on several of
the organ's levers, each of which produces a sound effect (including one
of a toilet flushing!). Next, a newsreel is projected onto the screen:
"Out-Of-Tone News -- Sees All, Hears All, Smells All". The newsreel
announcer introduces himself: "This is your talking reporter, Graham
Cracker, announcing world events". The first story, from Geneva,
Switzerland, is about a peace conference attended by world leaders. The
film is of dozens of men beating the living daylights out of each other,
with Graham Cracker providing a blow-by-blow account like a fight announcer.
The next story, from Malibu, California, is about the Sunkist bathing
beauties enjoying California sunshine. The film is of a snowstorm at the
beach, with one bathing "beauty" coming precariously close to
a tidal wave-like tide. Next, from Reno, Nevada, we read that boxer "Jack
Dumpsey" is training for a comeback. The film is of a withered old
man with a cane feebly hitting a punching bag. From Epsom Salts, England,
comes film of the Blue-Blood Canines Race Classic. The footage is of a
speeding pack of racing dogs, but lagging behind them is Bruno ("the
champion"), who is leisurely sniffing the track. Bruno is startled
and finally begins to run when he finds out what's behind him -- the four
Marx Brothers equipped as dog catchers! Next, from Pretzel, Germany, a
famous screen lover is on a European vacation. It's Jimmy Durante being
chased by an axe-wielding Adolf Hitler, shouting "Am I mortified!".
The newsreel comes to an end with a shot of a man cranking a meat grinder,
and the words "It Squeaks for Itself". "This is only the
beginning folks, only the beginning!" shouts Bosko, just before the
next items appears on screen. It's a comedy short: Haurel and Lardy in
"Spite of Everything". Haurel and Lardy are walking along and
come across a pie cooling on a window sill. Lardy tells Haurel to steal
it, but they can't decide which one of them should have it. After snatching
it from each other numerous times, Haurel breaks the pie over Lardy's
head, who then retaliates by whacking Haurel in the head with a pot. The
film ends with Haurel in tears. Bosko shouts "Is everybody happy?!",
and someone in the audience replies with a raspberry, but Bosko ignores
it and presents the next film. A lion appears on the screen over the name
"TNT Pictures". The lion roars a few times, then burps. The
film is an 1890s melodrama entitled "He Done Her Dirt (and How!)".
Honey is a sweet lass riding along on a bicycle, with the Marx Brothers
following behind her and singing "Bicycle Built for Two". Bosko,
providing the organ accompaniment to the film, looks at us and says "Ain't
she sweet?". A title card appears that reads "Dirty Dalton (The
Cur!)", and we watch as he and his bicycle creep along towards Honey.
Bosko points to him on the screen and shouts "The dirty f--k!".
Dirty Dalton hides behind a tree as Honey rides by, then snatches her
off her bicycle and carries her away (via his own bicycle, which gallops
like a horse). They leap off a cliff and onto a train passing underneath,
but the car they land on breaks loose and goes off on a wild ride. Dalton
struggles to hang on to the car, but when he spots Honey he shouts "Aha,
me proud beauty!" and chases her. Honey is also trying her best to
keep from being thrown off, and when she sees Dalton approaching she screams
"Is there a boy scout in the audience?!". Bosko to jumps up
and shouts "I'll save you!", then runs in front of the screen.
He points to Dalton and shouts "Stop, you cur!", then leaps
towards the picture. Instead of becoming part of the film, he goes right
through the screen, ripping a big hole where Dalton's head was. Bosko's
head pops out of the hole and he sees Honey applauding him. Bosko raises
his arms in triumph, as his final adventure for Warner Bros. concludes.
Notes:
- Obscure gags:
--The "Furtilizer" organ refers to the famous Wurlitzer pipe
organs featured in many theaters of that era.
--"Out-of-Tone" news refers to Fox's Movietone News. It's
slogans were "Sees all, Hears All, Knows All" and "It
Speaks for Itself".
--"Jack Dumpsey" refers to Jack Dempsey, the boxer who was
heavyweight champion of the world for 7 straight years after World War
I.
--Buster Keaton successfully leaped into a movie screen in his 1924
film Sherlock, Jr.
[LT&MM]
- Bosko's line after
the introduction of Dirty Dalton has been a subject of much dispute.
According to LT&MM, Bosko says "The
dirty fox!", yet on my uncut copy he clearly says "The dirty
f--k!". Nickelodeon aired the cartoon with this line intact only
once, then replaced it with a version in which Bosko says "The
dirty cur!". If Bosko wasn't saying "f--k", then they
wouldn't have had to replace that line. Since this is Harman & Ising's
final cartoon for WB, it's possible that the line was included as a
farewell message to Leon Schlesinger and WB. It's unlikely that the
"f--k" version played in theaters; the "cur" version
is what was probably seen by audiences in 1933.
Memorable
Scenes:
Video
Availability:
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