| Ali-Baba Bound | |
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| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Vive Risto |
| Color process | Black-and-white Color (1968 redrawn colorized edition and 1992 computer colorized version) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
Ali-Baba Bound is a 1940Warner Bros.Looney Tunes cartoon directed byBob Clampett.[1] The short was released on February 10, 1940, and starsPorky Pig.[2]
The title is a spoof of the song "I'm Alabama Bound".
In theSahara Desert, where it is so hot even the fan dancers use electric fans, Porky Pig is in theFrench Foreign Legion. While leaving a restaurant (known as theBrown Turban) he gets a message labelledConfessions of a Nasty Spy from a caricature ofGeorge Raft as a spy named Tattle Tale Gray thatAli-Baba and his dirty sleeves are going to attack aBeau Geste type desert fort.
Porky is given the task of getting there before the bombing begins. He goes toU-Drive Rent-a-Camel and rentsBaby Dumpling the camel then races off in order to get to the fort.
He gets there, only to discover that all the Legionnaires have gone to theLegion convention in Boston. He is thus alone with Baby Dumpling when Ali-Baba, known as "the mad dog of the desert," decides to attack the fort. After a familiar scenario of gags (one defeated desert warrior marches about with a sign saying, "This fort unfair to Arabs"), Ali-Baba enters the fort and menaces Baby Dumpling, the camel. Baby Dumpling blows a nearby bugle and calls for help.
Back at the rental store, the Mother Camel hears Baby Dumpling's call and begins running into the desert to rescue him and Porky, but then changes course back to the rental store and gets a full tank of water from the nearby filling station. Will a full tank, the Mother Camel races to the fortress and knocks Ali Baba over the fortress wall, saving Porky and Baby Dumpling.
Finally, asuicide warrior (who has been sitting on the bench that says "Reserved for Suicide Squad" with the attackers' secret weapon, a bomb tied to his head) runs toward the fort, intending to blow it up. Porky sees him coming and throws open the fort's front door and he charges through as Mother Camel and Baby Dumpling open the fort's rear door, redirecting him to the oasis, where he runs right into Ali-Baba, turning Ali-Baba and the Dirty Sleeves into tents that are easily sellable. That's all folks!
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