Red Hot Riding Hood

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Adventure Animation Comedy Family Musical Short

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.

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7.7/10

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Elvia Allman

Grandma
(uncredited)

Sara Berner

Red
(uncredited)
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Daws Butler

Wolf Howl
(voice)
(uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Wolf Howl
(uncredited)

June Foray

Tall Cigarette Girl
(voice)
(uncredited)

Frank Graham

Wolf
(voice)
(uncredited)

Kent Rogers

Wolf (some lines)
(voice)
(uncredited)

Connie Russell

Red
(singing voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Tex Avery
Writer
- Rich Hogan
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Trivia
This cartoon (along with all other subsequent cartoons featuring "Red") was initially banned from television, judged as being too provocative.

Quotes
[opening lines, after quick musical introduction and opening credits]
Narrator: Good evening, kiddies. Once upon a time, Little Red Riding Hood was skipping through the woods. She was going to her grandmother's house to take grandma a basket of nice goodies. But waiting in the woods was a mean old wolf ready to pounce upon poor Little Red Riding Hood.
Wolf: Oh, stop it! "Waiting in the woods was the mean old wolf ready to pounce on poor Red Riding Hood." I'm fed up with that sissy stuff. It's the same old story over and over. If you can't do this thing a new way, Bud, I quit!
Red: [Little Red Riding Hood throws her basket, to the ground angrily] Me too. Every cartoon studio in Hollywood has done it this way.
Grandma: Yes, I'm plenty sick of it myself.
[All three start complaining at the same time]
Grandma: ...The man smells!
Narrator: Ok! Ok! All right! We'll do the story a new way!

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)

Soundtracks
Runnin' Wild
(1922)) (uncredited)
Music by A.H. Gibbs
Lyrics by Joe Grey and Leo Wood

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10/10

Genius - they certainly don't make'em like this any more

Nope - they sure don't make'em like this any more. But modern-day animators working on pixillated mega-productions owe Tex Avery and his "Termite Terrace" co-workers a large debt. Rather than retell The Avery story (there are several books around that will do that), just look out for his classic MGM cartoons of the '40s and '50s, and marvel at the genius on show. "Red Hot Riding Hood" is one of his best and was the first in the "Red" series. It's an out-and-out classic, with a plot loosely based on the children's fairy tale playing second fiddle to beautifully drawn and animated scenes and some fantastic big-band music. The visual pacing in this toon is so fast that if you blink you'll miss another screwball gag. Look for it on TV (yes it does still get shown, in the UK at least) or even better, go see it at the movies. Great stuff and I never tire of it.