Buddy's Pony Express
| Buddy's Pony Express | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Buddy) series | |
| Directed by | Ben Hardaway |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by |
Jack Carr Bernice Hansen Billy Bletcher (all uncredited) |
| Music by |
Bernard Brown Norman Spencer |
| Animation by |
Ben Clopton Cal Dalton |
| Studio | Leon Schlesinger Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | March 9, 1935 (USA) |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Buddy's Theatre (1935) |
| Followed by | Buddy of the Legion (1935) |
Buddy's Pony Express is an American animated short film, released March 9, 1935. It is a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. The cartoon was directed by Ben Hardaway; musical direction was by Bernard Brown.
The film opens to a lawless town in the Old West; at a saloon, Buddy plays the piano. The bar is tended by a pig, and a dog patron quickly becomes incapacitated by liquor. Cookie the serving girl sings "Oklahoma Joe". In a gunfight, one patron's head is obliterated, only to the revelation that it is a large mask worn by Buddy, who is taking part in the musical number. A lantern then falls on his head.
A dog man enters, and posts, on the wall, an announcement: "Notice! Pony Express Race from Red Gulch to Skull Crick & back -- Mail Contract awarded to winner - Race Starts 2:30 to-day!" All run off to prepare. Buddy, calling the race a cinch, runs off with Cookie to show her his horse, which he claim is "the fastest in the county!" Seeing that the time is nigh, Buddy goes off to ready himself. The cartoon's villain, another dog-like character, takes Buddy's trusty steed to a glue factory, exchanging it for an anemic old horse, which the villain inflates by way of a balloon, and places where Our Hero would expect to find his own animal.
The scene shifts to the site of the race now. Buddy rushes off with the sickly horse to the starting line. The competition begins: a dog with crutches is outraced by a competitor with a dog as his vehicle. But said dog proceeds to chase a rabbit through a series of holes, tangling itself and its master up in the process. Somehow, the villain and Buddy are neck and neck in the race. The dastardly fiend pulls Buddy's horse by its tail and swings the creature around in the air; the villain laughs at the grounded Buddy, but is taken down by a cactus, his horse moving on without him.
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