Hard Luck Duck (1995)

Directed by

William Hanna

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A naive duck wanders away from his alligator friend and becomes the target of a hungry fox who wants to cook him. The cartoon follows the fox's attempts to catch the duck and the duck's close calls.

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What happens

Hard Luck Duck is a What a Cartoon! animated cartoon directed by William Hanna, produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, and broadcast as a part of World Premiere Toons on Cartoon Network on April 16, 1995. The cartoon involves Hard Luck Duck (Russi Taylor), after venturing away from Harley Gator (Brad Garrett)'s watch, is a hungry fox (Jim Cummings)'s target to be cooked. Although he was a producer on many Hanna-Barbera titles until his death on March 22, 2001, Hard Luck Duck is notable for being, with fellow What a Cartoon! short Wind-Up Wolf, the last cartoons written and directed by William Hanna, whose career began in the Golden Age of American animation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with the short To Spring (1936) and his later Tom and Jerry series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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