Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

Directed by

Tex Avery

Genre

comedy film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black cat with bad luck powers helps a smaller animal escape a bulldog's bullying. The cartoon is full of slapstick gags and quick visual comedy.

slapstickfast-pacedplayfulwhimsicalcartoonishlivelysurprising

What happens

Bad Luck Blackie is a 1949 American animated comedy short film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Tex Avery-directed short was voted the 15th-best cartoon of all-time in a 1994 poll of 1,000 animation industry professionals, as referenced in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons. The title is a play on Boston Blackie, a popular radio show at the time. The cartoon marks the first appearance of Tex Avery's version of Spike the Bulldog (later renamed as Butch the Irish Dog in 1955's "Deputy Droopy"), who would later appear in Droopy cartoons in the late-1940s into the 1950s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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