The Wild Chase

Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico, races against the Road Runner, the Texas road burner, in the Mexico–United States border zone. During the race, Sylvester the Cat and Wile E. Coyote join forces in an attempt to catch their speedy opponents, with predictable results. Often they mistakenly end up injuring each other in comical fashion.

Initially, Wile E. Coyote descends precipitously from a cliff in his endeavor to capture the Road Runner, an occurrence subsequently replicated by Sylvester subsequent to an encounter with Speedy. Their strategy to launch rocks at their competitors goes awry, resulting in the rocks descending upon themselves. Subsequently, they covertly position iron pellets beneath birdseed and cheese, attaching a grenade to a magnet on a roller skate; however, this scheme concludes with the grenade detonating in Wile E.'s visage. Moreover, their attempt to dislodge a flat rock from a cliff results in both characters plunging over the edge. In their endeavor to demolish a culvert, they mishandle the detonator, precipitating the detonation of the dynamite upon themselves. Finally, they employ a rocket car to pursue the racers, ostensibly achieving victory, but are subsequently disqualified as only Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are duly registered participants.

The cartoon culminates with Sylvester and Wile E. being propelled into the atmosphere as the rocket car erupts in a pyrotechnic display.

• Co-Director: Hawley Pratt
• Story: Friz Freleng & Cal Howard
• Animation: Norm McCabe, Don Williams, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Laverne Harding
• Layout: Dick Ung
• Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
• Film Editor: Lee Gunther
• Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc
• Music: Bill Lava
• Produced by: David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
• Directed by: Friz Freleng