The Night of the Living Duck
The Night of the Living Duck | |
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Production company | Warner Bros. Animation |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | September 23, 1988 |
Run time | 9:04 |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Producer(s) | Steven S. Greene |
Music composed by | Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn |
Story by | Greg Ford Terry Lennon |
Animation | Brenda L. Banks Norman McKabe Mark Kausler Rebecca Rees Frans Vischer |
Director(s) | Greg Ford Terry Lennon |
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The Night of the Living Duck is the five-hundred and thirty-sixth short of Merrie Melodies theatrical series. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 23, 1988 at the New York Film Film Festival.[1][2] It was written by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon, produced by Steven S. Greene, and directed by Ford and Lennon.
After indulging himself in reading horror comics, Daffy faces a dream where he is a host of a nightclub populated by monsters.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Schmodzilla: You were expecting maybe Calvin Coolidge?
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Daffy Duck's residence
- Daffy's nightclub
- United States
Objects
Music
The music is taken from compositions by Carl W. Stalling and Milt Franklyn. It marks as one of three modern Looney Tunes cartoons to use music cues from the classic shorts as opposed to having an original score, with the other two being The Duxorcist and Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers.
Songs
- "Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives" - Mel Tormé
Crew credits
- Co-producer: Kathleen Helppie
- Production supervisor: Bill Exter
- Post production supervisor: Jim Champin
- Voice direction: Gordon Hunt
- Design and layout: Robert Givens
- Assistant layout: Lin Larsen
- Additional character design: Dan Haskett
- Key assistant: Francesca Freeman
- Assistant animators: Edy Benjamin, Edward Faigin, Dorris Bergstrom, Sonja Ruta, Lou Dellarosa, Dick Williams
- Backgrounds: Richard H Thomas, Alan M. Bodner
Behind the scenes
- The title is a play on the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead, although the plot has nothing to do with said film's themes of a zombie apocalypse.
- The plot of this short is a spiritual successor to 1946's The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, which also revolved around Daffy stuck in a dream with various characters.
- It is the last Warner Bros. animated short in which Mel Blanc provided the voices before his passing in 1989.
- A cover of Mad magazine appears during the opening scene. Alfred E. Neuman, the magazine's mascot, later appears briefly while holding some drinks next to the Gill-man and his female captor.
- Daffy's scream when eaten by Schodzilla is recycled from Boobs in the Woods, due to Blanc's illness at the time of the short's production.
Legacy
- The short was featured as part of the 1989 feature film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.
- It was also featured in the 1992 television special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- March 2, 1993: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes After Dark on LaserDisc.
- 2000: Warner Home Video releases Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks on VHS.
- October 28, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Space Jam on DVD.
- November 1, 2011: Warner Home Video releases The Essential Daffy Duck on DVD.
References
- ↑ Gelder, Lawrence Van (September 16, 1988). "AT THE MOVIES". The New York Times. Retrieved on November 3, 2024.
- ↑ "Review/Film Festival; Cencentric Eccentricities in Almodovar Tale". The New York Times (September 23, 1988). Retrieved on November 3, 2024.