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'Blitz Wolf' may not be up there with Avery's very finest, but it is a very clever take on a famous story that has actually been very well-adapted in animation (it's also one of the better takes on it) and is definitely one of the best "WWII propaganda" cartoons, though it is much more than that.
Tex Avery's iconic wolf began life as Hitler, before switching to the more respectable profession of being a really horny guy. He goes to Hell here, but this is only a temporary inconvenience as he would return several times.
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Cartoon Studio
- Tex Avery
Blitz Wolf is a 1942 American animated propaganda short film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A parody of the Three Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by Tex Avery (in his first cartoon for MGM) and produced by Fred Quimby. [2]
Blitz Wolf (1942) Warner Brothers saw fit to run a disclaimer before this little cartoon, explaining that the racial stereotypes contained herein “… were wrong then, and they are wrong now.”
Blitz Wolf. Directed by: Tex Avery. Genres: War, Propaganda Film, Cartoon, Slapstick. Rated the #103 best film of 1942.
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- Tex Avery
- Tex Avery
- 22 August 1942
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Blitz Wolf (1942) (animation short) In Tex Avery's debut short film (almost ten minutes in length) at MGM, a propagandistic version of Disney's Three Little Pigs (1933) - with the character of a wolfish Adolf Hitler:
