Hot Noon (or 12 O'Clock for Sure)

Hot Noon
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Directed by	Paul J. Smith Additional director: Don Patterson (uncredited)
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Animation by	Laverne Harding Robert Bentley Gil Turner Additional animation: Ray Abrams Herman Cohen Ken Southworth (all uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal International
Running time	6' 11"
Country	United States

Hot Noon (or 12 O'Clock For Sure) is the 51st animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on October 12, 1953, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.

Plot

Woody is a piano player at the Old Crow Bar where a beautiful Mexican girl in a red dress and green sombrero sits atop his piano. Word of Buzz Buzzard coming to town is that he is out to get the sheriff and kill him. It spreads and every sheriff at the Bar gives Woody their badges. The woman still sitting on top of the piano then takes Woody in her arms, strangles him and says, "Es mi hombre magnifico. You are my little sheriff. You will get the bad hombre, no?" She gives him a kiss, convincing him to stop Buzz. Then Woody jumps out.

Woody plays piano again and the woman grateful congrats him for catch Buzz. When Woody finishes his tune, the girl gives him a kiss as a reward. The top of her sombrero shakes wildly. Then, Woody shoots up through her sombrero, through the bar roof and into the air, laughing.

Notes

Hot Noon (or 12 O'Clock For Sure) was the first entry in the Woody Woodpecker series directed by veteran animator/director Paul J. Smith, who had worked at the studio as animator for several years. Smith had directed a handful of Lantz "cartunes" by the time this film was released. This is also the only appearance of Buzz Buzzard's brothers, Booze and Bizz Buzzard. This cartoon is a parody of Fred Zinneman western movie "High Noon", released one year before.

References

• Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1953". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia