Dime to Retire
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| Dime to Retire | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | September 3, 1955 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Sid Marcus |
| Animation | Robert McKimson Keith Darling |
| Director(s) | Robert McKimson |
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Dime to Retire is a three hundred and fifty-third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 3, 1955. It was written by Sid Marcus, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Robert McKimson.
Porky Pig, trying to find a vacant hotel to spend the night in, decides to try Daffy Duck's Hotel. However, he'll soon find out that the hotel is rigged with expensive extermination service fees.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daffy: A little traveling musthic, pleasthe.
Characters
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Locations
Oragnizations
Objects
- Celery
- Acme Blasting Powder
Vehicles
- Porky's jalopy
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Robert Givens
- Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: September 3, 1955 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is ap un of the phrase, 'time to retire'.
- This is one of the few cartoons where Porky wears pants.
- Although Porky no longer has any solo cartoons and is less popular than Daffy Duck at the time, this is the first cartoon since Porky Pig's Feat (1943) to bill Porky's name above Daffy's name in the titles.
- Director Robert McKimson animated most of the cartoon himself (although Keith Darling animated certain scenes of the film at points). McKimson also did most of the animation work for two other cartoons: The Hole Idea and Too Hop to Handle (1956) (with the former cartoon entirely animated by McKimson himself without any involvement by Darling).
- In real life, lions are known to prey on wild pigs, so it actually makes sense for the lion to attempt to devour Porky (even though Porky is a human-like anthropomorphic domestic pig).
Errors
- For some reason, the production number shown on the opening rings is sourced from Bunker Hill Bunny (#1133) by mistake, instead of showing #1333.
- When this short was released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it was cropped down to a widescreen format. While it was restored to fullscreen on certain streaming platforms, it has not been re-released on home video as of yet.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
