Panhandle Scandal

Panhandle Scandal
File:Panhandle-title.jpg Title card
Directed by	Alex Lovy
Story by	Dalton Sandifer
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Starring	Grace Stafford Dal McKennon
Music by	Clarence Wheeler
Animation by	Laverne Harding Don Patterson Ray Abrams Art Landy
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal International
Release date	May 18, 1959
Language	English

Panhandle Scandal is the 94th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on May 18, 1959, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

Plot

Dapper Denver Dooley, a bandit with a price on his head, approaches the town of Rigger Mortis, Texas and sees a sign, "No Bandits Allowed," signed by "Woody Woodpecker, Marshal." He stops and asks a peon where he can find the marshal. The peon replies, "You mean the one with the red hair, the big nose, who goes 'Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha'?" The bandit says, "That's him." The peon replies, "I don't know him, senor." A disgusted patron runs to the marshal's office for help, and soon, outside the swinging doors, appear two long legs in cowboy boots. The bandit sees this, turns chicken, and finds that the legs he saw are actually those of Woody on stilts. In the final sequence, with Dapper Denver and the peon on a handcar running head-on into an engine, the peon jumps unharmed, but the bandit is really shaken up. Tapping the peon on the head, he asks, "What happened to that woodpecker?" The peon takes off his hat, false face and short, and it's Woody Woodpecker who now has the bandit securely tied up so that he can cause no more harm or trouble.

References

• Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1959". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.