Back Alley Oproar
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| Back Alley Oproar | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | March 27, 1948 |
| Run time | 7:42 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan Gloria Curran Tudor Williams |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Back Alley Oproar is the two hundred and eighty-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on March 27, 1948. It was written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
When Elmer tries to get a good night's sleep, Sylvester causes trouble for him.
Detailed Summary
Memorable Quotes
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Grease Bucket
- Box of Tacks
- Dynamite Crate with Long Fuse
- Match
Vehicles
- Rowboat
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Songs
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - when Sylvester goes up and down the stairs.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: March 27, 1948 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- It was originally shown alongside the musical film April Showers.
- The title is a pun of both the words "uproar" and "opera."
- This cartoon is a remake of the 1941 Looney Tunes short Notes to You, but with Elmer Fudd taking on Porky Pig's role in the former.
- This is the first of five cartoons where Sylvester gets paired with Elmer. They would be paired together later in Kit For Cat, and then in two shorts underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Heir-Conditioned (1955) and Yankee Dood It (1956).
Errors
- When Sylvester puts the tacks down across the ground, they are in front of the stairs. However, when Elmer comes down the stairs to get Sylvester, the tacks have been moved a little further away from the stairs.
- On the DVD and Blu-ray releases of this cartoon, the scene where Sylvester goes to drink the milk and heads back to the fence is noticeably choppy.
Everlasting Influence
- An audio piece from this cartoon, the part where Sylvester goes up and down the stairs while harmonizing to the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 was reused in Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster.
Home availability
- In the United States:
