A Peck O' Trouble

A Peck O' Trouble

7 mins | Animation | March 27, 1953

Lazy Dodsworth the Cat wants to catch a woodpecker for his breakfast. The woodpecker has built its home inside the upper trunk of a very tall tree, and Dodsworth puts on a professor's cap, pretending to be a passive teacher of bird-catching and thereby deceive an eager-to-learn kitten into doing the perilous ascending of the tree to try to catch the woodpecker. The true fact, is Dodsworth's schemes were deceptive and deceiving the kitten, throughout.

A Peck O' Trouble

7 mins | Animation | March 27, 1953

A Peck O' Trouble
Lazy Dodsworth the Cat wants to catch a woodpecker for his breakfast. The woodpecker has built its home inside the upper trunk of a very tall tree, and Dodsworth puts on a professor's cap, pretending to be a passive teacher of bird-catching and thereby deceive an eager-to-learn kitten into doing the perilous ascending of the tree to try to catch the woodpecker. The true fact, is Dodsworth's schemes were deceptive and deceiving the kitten, throughout.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures
Original title A Peck O' Trouble
Directors Robert Givens, Robert McKimson
Writers Tedd Pierce

Cast

Mel Blanc

as The Kitten (voice)

Sheldon Leonard

as Dodsworth (voice)