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Happy Go Luckies (1923)

1923 · Animation · 7 min · dir. Paul Terry

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Synopsis

In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are better than one” is the moral. To modern eyes, our trickster duo may look like two dogs—in the show they pretend to be one long dog—but audiences of the ’20s would have recognized a dog-and-cat team. The black body, white face, and sharp ears would have been most familiar from the greatest jazz-era trickster cat, Felix. Dogs and cats—much easier to…

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Director
Paul Terry
Studio
Fables Pictures Inc.
Released
1923-11-23
Running time
7 minutes

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