Sioux Me
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| Sioux Me | |
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| Production company | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | September 9, 1939 |
| Run time | 8:00 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Danny Webb Reid Kilpatrick Bill Days Max Smith John Rairig Thurl Ravenscroft Paul Taylor[1] |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger[2] |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling[2] |
| Story by | Melvin Millar[2] |
| Animation | Herman Cohen[2] |
| Director(s) | Ben Hardaway Cal Dalton[2] |
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Sioux Me is the one hundred and thirty-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 9, 1939. It was written by Melvin Millar, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.
When a Indian reservation site is plagued by a widespread drought, a rainmaker and his young assistant seek to find a solution to the problem.
Detailed summary
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Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: September 9, 1939
Behind the scenes
- The title is a play on the phrase "sue me." You're welcome.
- The word "sue" is replaced in the title with Sioux, a broad group of Native Americans and First Nation people from the Great Plains of North America.
- The MPAA certificate number is 5578.
- It is the final cartoon to use the 1938-39 green-yellow color rings.
- The short is a color remake of the 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon Porky the Rain-Maker, but with a Native American tribe as the main cast instead of Porky Pig.
- The short is seldom aired on American television since the 1980s due to its stereotypes of Native American people.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 23, 1993: MGM/UA Home Video releases The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 3 on LaserDisc.
