Credits:
Supervision by - Rudolf Ising
Drawn by - Rollin Hamilton,
Thomas McKimson
Musical Score by - Frank Marsales
Summary:
An organ grinder's
talented monkey shows us his stuff.
Description:
An Italian organ-grinder
is walking down the street, cranking out music while his monkey runs ahead
of him. The monkey collects money from a child in an apartment window,
using a street lamp to reach her. The grinder sings the title tune as
the monkey eats a banana from a fruit stand, unzipping its peel. We see
a woman washing clothes in an apartment up above ("Wotta man!"
she shouts as she pulls out a huge article of clothing), and she continues
the title song with the help of another housewife in the building across
from her. She even tosses in some fanny-slapping and a "Hi-dee-hi!
Ho-dee-ho!". She pulls out a coin and signals the organ grinder,
who instructs his monkey: "Hey Tony, go getta da money!". The
monkey slides up a barber pole and uses pull-down window shades to propel
himself upwards towards the woman with the money. He then hops into a
pair of panties on the clothesline, pulls himself over to the other woman,
and collects her money too. The monkey climbs out of the panties but falls
off the clothesline, hitting several awnings before landing in a pair
of long underwear. He returns to his owner and gives him the money. Several
children soon gather around, so the organ grinder tells the monkey to
dance. He then asks the monkey to shake his can, which he does by waving
his rear end in the air. "Whatsamattayou!" shouts the grinder,
who then gives the monkey the tin can he was actually referring to. "Come
on now Tony, get hot!" shouts the grinder, so the monkey dances down
the street a bit, then cranks a cat's tail like an organ. The cat hisses
at him, so the monkey runs off and hides in the drawer of a dresser outside
a second-hand shop. The monkey soon crawls out and spots a curly blonde
wig and a top hat nearby. He puts them on and begins to strum a nearby
harp, a la Harpo Marx. Next, the monkey uses a harp string to fling himself
over to a movie theater, where he spots a poster of Laurel & Hardy
and proceeds to contort his face into likenesses of them both. Then the
monkey starts playing two pianos at the same time, while the children
continue with the title song. Suddenly the monkey is playing "42nd
Street" on several instruments at once. The monkey finds the cat
again and starts plucking it's tail to the tune, but the cat hisses at
him once more. The monkey hides in a parked car, but it suddenly starts
rolling out-of-control down the street. A mouse appears and honks the
horn, but it's too late to alert a man with an apple cart. The car crashes
right through it, but the pieces of the cart fall back to earth in place.
The man falls into the pile of apples and shouts angrily. The runaway
car narrowly avoids a Chinese man carrying laundry, though a bra and panties
do end up on the front of the car. The organ grinder leaps out of the
way as the car crashes into a music store and demolishes it. Suddenly
the car emerges, transformed into an orchestra-mobile, out of which the
monkey and the organ grinder appear to the cheers of the children.
Notes:
Memorable
Scenes:
Video
Availability:
Laserdisc:
Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 4
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