| The Hungry Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hugh Harman (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby (uncredited) |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc (wolf, uncredited) Paul Frees (rabbit, uncredited) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley (uncredited) |
| Animation by | Pete Burness (uncredted) Kenneth Muse (uncredited) Irven Spence (uncredited) Jack Zander (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | February 21, 1942 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 9 minutes, 14 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Hungry Wolf is a 1942 one-reel animated cartoon short subject from MGM. It tells the story of a hungry wolf who one day, while starving during a cold winter, meets with a rabbit and is struggling between his hunger and conscience.
A wolf is out of food, and begins hallucinating, seeing a rope as sausages and a rolling pin as an ear of corn. A young rabbit, lost in the snow, comes in, and the wolf eyes him hungrily. The rabbit is amazingly polite, and just before the wolf is about to cook him, asks the wolf to be his daddy. The wolf can't eat him, and sends him away. But the hunger will not stop, so he sets out in search of the rabbit.