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A Bone for a Bone (1951)

A Bone for a Bone poster
Directed by
Friz Freleng
Genre
comedy film, animated film, family film
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two polite but sly gophers square off against a human gardener in a battle over a garden. The gophers use clever tricks to steal vegetables and avoid capture.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalsnappywittyslyanimatedfast-paced

What happens

A Bone for a Bone is a 1951 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng. It was released on April 7, 1951, and features the Goofy Gophers. The cartoon is the first of four Goofy Gophers cartoon directed by Freleng, and would be the final work by J.B. Hardaway at the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, having returned after almost a decade at rival studio Walter Lantz Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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