Convict Concerto
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Daws Butler
Grace Stafford
(all uncredited)
| Convict Concerto | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Directed by | Don Patterson (uncredited) |
| Story by | Hugh Harman |
| Produced by | Walter Lantz |
| Starring | Dal McKennon Daws Butler Grace Stafford (all uncredited) |
| Music by | Clarence Wheeler Piano player: Raymond Turner |
| Animation by | Ray Abrams Don Patterson Herman Cohen |
| Backgrounds by | Raymond Jacobs Art Landy |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal International |
Release date |
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Running time | 6:11 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Convict Concerto is a 1954 Woody Woodpecker cartoon directed by Don Patterson. Released theatrically on November 22, 1954, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.[1][2]
Woody is a shy piano tuner who is held at gunpoint by a bank robber named Mugsy who is a fugitive. Mugsy hides out inside the grand piano Woody is tuning, and directs him to start playing immediately. Mugsy plays part of Frédéric Chopin's Funeral March to threaten Woody, who replies with a rousing rendition of Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2". He manages to play the entire piece while being harassed by the gun-wielding Mugsy as well as a bricks-for-brains policeman hot on the trail of the stolen loot.
