| I Like Mountain Music | |
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| Directed by | Rudolf Ising |
| Produced by | Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Johnny Murray Rudolf Ising The King's Men[1] |
| Music by | Frank Marsales |
| Animation by | Isadore Freleng Larry Martin Uncredited: Bob Clampett Thomas McKimson Paul Smith |
| Color process | Black and white Color Systems, Inc. (1973 Korean redrawn three-strip color edition) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6:59 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
I Like Mountain Music is a 1933Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed byRudolf Ising.[2] The short was released on June 14, 1933.[3]
This cartoon is a follow-up to the 1932 shortThree's a Crowd, in which literary characters came to life and stepped off their book covers. In this film, the characters on magazine covers come to life.[4]
The short is a part of theUltra HD Blu-ray,Blu-ray andiTunes releases ofGoodfellas as a part of aMerrie Melodies &Looney Tunes bonus features compilation.[5]
At night, the magazines at a drugstore come to life and put on a show. However, the man on the crime magazine seizes the opportunity to rob the cash. Now it's up to the sleuths of the detective magazine to catch him.Sherlock Holmes andDr. Watson, among others, follow their trail.
Celebrity cameos includeEdward G. Robinson, who is inside the pages of a crime magazine.Will Rogers comes in, twirling a lasso, and delivers his trademark line, "All I know is just what I read in the papers." ComedianEd Wynn appears in an ad for "Vexico Quick-Exploding Gasoline" whileEddie Cantor takes off the beard of a violinist to reveal he's actually Rubinoff. (At the time, Wynn's NBC radio show was sponsored byTexaco, with the tagline that the firm's product was "quick starting gasoline," and violinist/orchestra leaderDavid Rubinoff was one of the featured players on Cantor's radio show for Chase and Sanborn—the "Jimmy" referred to by the Cantor caricature is probablyJimmy Wallington, the show's announcer.) In the last minute of the cartoon,Mussolini is shown briefly making a fascist salute, directing mustachioed soldiers (armed with bayonets) to chase the bad guys.
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