Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner
| Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies series | |
| Directed by | Rudy Larriva |
| Produced by |
David H. DePatie Friz Freleng Herbert Klynn |
| Story by | Rudy Larriva |
| Music by | Bill Lava |
| Animation by |
Hank Smith Tom McDonald |
| Layouts by | Erni Nordli |
| Backgrounds by | Tony Rizzo |
| Studio |
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (Marvel Animation) Format Productions |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | August 21, 1965 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6' |
| Language | English |
Run, Run Sweet Roadrunner is an animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series released by Warner Bros.. It features Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner and was directed and written by Rudy Larriva for release in 1965.
It was the first of the Road Runner cartoons subcontracted to Format Productions, and the one of the only three which composer William Lava was able to properly score. (The subsequent cartoons had to use a set of stock musical cues, due to extremely low budgets).
The short starts off with Wile E. waiting behind a rock for the Road Runner to zoom by. Wile E.looks at the camera and flutters his eyebrows as Road Runner races by. The coyote starts to chase him to the edge of a cliff. Road Runner produces a sign that says HOLD IT. There are hopscotch marks right at the end of the cliff, which is covered by a cloud. After Roadrunner hopscotches, Wile E. takes his turn. But the cloud drifts away and the edge of the cliff breaks. Wile E. plummets to the canyon bottom. The battered coyote looks up at the rim, which is seen from his point of view. Roadrunner is heard making his trademark "beep beep" noise and then zooming off.
We then see a shot of Wile E. sharpening the spikes on a metal grate. He covers it up with a sheet and raises it up using a pulley. He then climbs down from the top of a rock, and it cuts to Wile E.hammering signs into the ground. One says FREE FOOD—200 YARDS, another says BIRD SEED LIKE MOTHER USED TO SERVE—100 YARDS and a third says EAT IN THE SHADE, 20 DEGREES COOLER--followed by Wile E. pouring bird-seed into a little bowl with a sign that says FREE BIRD SEED that is under the large sharp spiked grate and disguises it as a shade canopy. He watches from the top of his rock with a pair of binoculars as Road Runner runs to the bowl of bird seed, gobbles it up in three seconds, and runs off. Wile E. gets a stunned look on his face and climbs down to fill the bowl with more bird seed. Unfortunately, the hot sun creates a glare on the lenses of the binoculars he left on top of the rock and it burns the rope holding up the shade canopy. As the coyote pours more seed into the bowl, he hears creaking, stands up to listen, and slowly looks up in distress just as the canopy falls right on top of him, leaving him covered by the sheet from the spiked metal grate, which then peels off in segments like a banana. He then gets a new idea: create a fake female road runner.
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