Lightning wolf

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Movie
Original title Lightning wolf
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 10 mins
Rod
Director Tex Avery
script Rich Hogan
production Fred Quimby
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
music Scott Bradley
synchronization

Blitz Wolf is an American animated short film by Tex Avery from 1942. The Oscar-nominated propaganda film against Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich uses the fairy tale about The Three Little Pigs as a parodic basis.

action

The three little pigs each build a house: the first builds one out of straw, the second one out of wood and the third out of stone, with a trench and a large defensive structure. The other two pigs laugh at the third one, which warns of the evil Adolf Wolf, who will attack Pigmania - they would have concluded a non-aggression pact with Adolf Wolf .

Wolf attacks Pigmania a little later. With a mechanical blower, he blows over the first pig's hay house. The wooden house is destroyed by a bomb. Both pigs flee to the third pig, which is now attacking Adolf Wolf with its rocket launchers. There is a trench warfare between the pigs and the wolf, which the pigs win in the end. Adolf Wolf rides a bomb that leaves a crater that extends into hell . The wolf wakes up there and is greeted by a chorus of devils.

production

Blitz Wolf was released on August 22, 1942. The film contains numerous allusions on the one hand to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, but also references to American culture.

Adolf Wolf wears a Hitler mustache and speaks pseudo-German with a few understandable words such as " Pumpernickel ", "Blitz" and "Stutzen", some of which are subtitled "translated". His tanks have swastikas made of sausages, he himself approaches the house of the first piggy alternately with a goose step and a Hitler salute or creeping up. The end fade-in was extended as "The End of Adolf". In addition, the rhyme “If you'll buy a stamp or bond / we'll skin that skunk across the pond” (German for example: “If you buy a postage stamp or a bond / we will skin the skunk over the pond) peel off ”) the cartoon.

When the first pig's house was blown away, a sign saying “ Gone with the Wind ” and next to it a sign saying “Corny gag, isn't it?” (German: “Trashed joke, right?”) stand. Rockets from Adolf Wolf are stopped by the third pig using an open Esquire magazine. Various anti-Japanese sequences were removed from broadcasts after the end of World War II .

synchronization

role Original speaker
Adolf Wolf Bill Thompson
Three pigs Pinto Colvig
teller Bill Thompson

Awards

Blitz Wolf was in 1943 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not against Der Fuehrer's Face , also a propaganda film against the Third Reich with Donald Duck prevail in the lead role.

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