Dumb-Hounded

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title: "Dumb-Hounded" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1943-films", "1943-american-animated-films", "droopy", "american-self-reflexive-films", "films-directed-by-tex-avery", "metro-goldwyn-mayer-animated-short-films", "films-scored-by-scott-bradley", "tex-avery's-big-bad-wolf-films", "films-produced-by-fred-quimby", "films-about-prison-escapes", "films-set-in-new-york-(state)", "metro-goldwyn-mayer-cartoon-studio-short-films", "1940s-english-language-films", "english-language-short-films", "1943-animated-short-films"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb-Hounded" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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FieldValue
nameDumb-Hounded
imageDumb hounded.jpg
captionPoster
directorTex Avery
producerFred Quimby
writerRich Hogan
starringBill Thompson
Frank Graham
(both uncredited)
musicScott Bradley
animator{{Plainlist
layout_artistIrvin Levine
Bernard Wolf
(both uncredited)
distributorMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
background_artistJohn Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
studioMGM Cartoons
released
runtime8:00
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
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| name = Dumb-Hounded | image = Dumb hounded.jpg | caption = Poster | director = Tex Avery | producer = Fred Quimby | writer = Rich Hogan | starring = Bill Thompson Frank Graham (both uncredited) | music = Scott Bradley | animator = {{Plainlist|

Plot

When an imprisoned killer (played by Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf character) escapes from Swing Swing Prison (a parody of Sing Sing Prison), numerous bloodhounds are released to track him down, including Droopy, who lags far behind the rest. He greets the audience and announces himself as the story's hero. Initially moving slowly, Droopy still manages to quickly locate the Wolf, who spends the entire story trying to escape from him. At one point, the Wolf even attempts to flee from Droopy by boarding a taxi, train, ship, and aircraft in succession. However, no matter where the Wolf flees, Droopy appears and greets him sarcastically. When the Wolf asks Droopy how he manages to keep up, Droopy laconically responds “Let’s not get nosy, bub.”

Ultimately, Droopy ends the futile chase by dropping a massive boulder onto the Wolf from above a rooftop to crush him (commenting to the audience that it is indeed gruesome), resulting in the Wolf's capture. Droopy receives his cash reward from the town mayor, upon which he jumps about cheering loudly in complete enthusiasm, before pausing, and, once again in his signature slow, deadpan characterization, informing the audience, "I'm happy".

Voice cast

Crew

Legacy

  • Northwest Hounded Police (1946) features Droopy and the Wolf character in a similar set-up. Again, the Wolf flees from Droopy, who keeps popping up in unexpected places.
  • In the early 2000s a Cartoon Network short Thanks a Latté features Droopy and the Wolf character in a nearly-similar set-up; where he works at a coffee shop and forces a stingy wolf into giving him a tip when the wolf leaves the shop without paying for his latte.
  • In 2020, Dumb Hounded was released and digitally restored on the Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 Blu-Ray by Warner Archive.

References

References

  1. "Dumb-Hounded".
  2. (March 20, 1943). "Dumb-Hounded". IMDB.
  3. (1999). "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons". Checkmark Books.
  4. (2004). ["Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939–1945"]({{Google books). McFarland.
  5. "“Hello All You Happy Tax Payers”: Tex Avery’s Voice Stock Company".
  6. (2022). "Cartoon Voices: of the Golden Age, 1930-1970 - Volume Two: Selected Filmographies with Voice Credits". BearManor Media.
  7. Place-Verghnes, Floriane. (2006). "Tex Avery : a unique legacy, 1942-1955". Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey Pub..

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