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Egghead Rides Again (1937)

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Egghead Rides Again (1937)

Name: Egghead Rides Again
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Western, Kids & Family
Released: 1937-07-17

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Plot.

City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.

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This Movie Is About.

horse ·

hotel ·

surrealism ·

cartoon ·

wyoming ·

ranch ·

calf ·

branding ·

egghead ·

hotel clerk ·

pogo stick

Cast & Crew.

$Tex Avery$

Tex Avery

Red (voice) (uncredited) / Director

Mel Blanc

Egghead (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)

Leon Schlesinger

Producer

Carl W. Stalling

Original Music Composer

Treg Brown

Editor

Irven Spence

Animation

Virgil Ross

Animation

Paul J. Smith

Animation

Roy Rogers

Yodeling Specialty

Danny Webb

Bar-None Foreman

Media.

Details.

Release Date
July 17, 1937

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Genres
Animation Comedy Western Kids & Family

Wiki.

Egghead Rides Again is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937. The cartoon marks the first appearance of Egghead, a character who eventually appear in three more cartoons, "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (produced in 1937 and released in 1938), "A-Lad-In Bagdad" (1938) and "Count Me Out" (1938), both cartoons released in 1938, according to David Gerstein (an animation historian) and Michael Barrier.