Deduce, You Say! (1956)

Original title

Deduce, You Say

Directed by

Chuck Jones

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Daffy Duck plays a bumbling detective named Dorlock Homes who tries to catch a criminal called the Shropshire Slasher. Porky Pig is his sidekick Watkins. This is a Looney Tunes cartoon from 1956.

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What happens

Deduce, You Say! is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released on September 29, 1956, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. The title is a play on the exclamation, "The deuce, you say!" The cartoon features Daffy Duck as the dim-witted detective Dorlock Homes (a parody of Sherlock Holmes) and Porky Pig as his sidekick Watkins (Dr. Watson), as they attempt to locate and apprehend the dangerous "Shropshire Slasher." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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