Here Today, Gone Tamale
| Here Today, Gone Tamale | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | August 29, 1959 |
| Run time | 6:20 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Daws Butler Tom Holland |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis Virgil Ross |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Here Today, Gone Tamale is the three hundred and ninety-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on August 29, 1959. It was written by Michael Maltese, and directed by Friz Freleng.
In the harboring docks of Mexico, all of the mice are starving. But when a ship full of cheese arrives, the mice must rely on Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all of Mexico, to help them get all the cheese from the ship and outwit the guard cat, Sylvester.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Sylvester: Well, ifth you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I alwayth thay.
(Sylvester puts on fake mouse ears and joins the fiesta)
Speedy: I like that pussycat fellow. He's muy loco in la cabeza. (giggles) Loco.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Gun pistol
- Cheese
- Butterfly net
- Mallet
- Metal piping
- Metal wire
- Guillotine
- Wooden board with mouse hole
- Fake mouse ears
Vehicles
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 29, 1959 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- It is the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon to be written by Michael Maltese.
- This short reuses animations from the 1955 short Speedy Gonzales and also reuses a gag from another 1955 short, Stork Naked, when Sylvester sets up a guillotine on the boarding entry of the ship.
Errors
- While the intro sequence of this cartoon uses blue rings, the outro of this cartoon uses red rings. The reason for this error was because that starting with the Merrie Melodies short Bonanza Bunny, all of the intro and outro sequences for both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies would use the red rings palette up until the 1964 short False Hare.
Everlasting influence
- This short would have most of its animations reused for the 1965 short, Cats and Bruises, and the 1966 short, Go Go Amigo.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- November 14, 2006: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 on DVD.
