Convict Concerto

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Convict Concerto Woody Woodpecker series

Directed by	Don Patterson
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Story by	Hugh Harman
Voices by	Daws Butler Dal McKennon Grace Stafford
Music by	Clarence Wheeler Raymond Turner
Animation by	Ray Abrams Herman Cohen Don Patterson Raymond Jacobs Art Landy
Studio	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 22, 1954
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6' 11"
Preceded by	A Fine Feathered Frenzy
Followed by	Helter Shelter
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Convict Concerto is the 58th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 22, 1954, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal-International.

[edit] Plot

Woody is a shy piano tuner who is held at gunpoint by a bank robber named Mugsy (Dal McKennon) who is on the lam. Mugsy hides out inside the grand piano Woody is tuning, and directs him to start playing immediately. Woody breaks into a rousing rendition of Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2," and manages to play the entire piece while being harassed by a gun-wielding Mugsy as well as a bricks-for-brains policeman (Daws Butler) hot on the trail of the stolen loot.