Three Little Wolves (film)

Three Little Wolves is a Silly Symphonies cartoon. Released on April 18, 1936, and directed by Dave Hand. It was the third Silly Symphony cartoon starring the Three Little Pigs. It introduces the Big Bad Wolf's sons, the Three Little Wolves, all of whom just as eager for a taste of the pigs as their father.

Plot

This short opens with the Wolf describing to his sons the edible parts of a pig. The cubs, after pelting their father with stones shot from slingshots just for a prank (first at his hat which falls off, then, as he picks up his hat, his rear), and after he threateningly exclaims that he'll blow their ears off if they don't behave ("Hey, cut it out or Pop'll blow your ears off!"), sing and dance to "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" Then it fades to Fifer and Fiddler Pig doing exactly the same thing of singing and dancing. They then discover a wolf alarm (used for emergencies only) and then they discover Practical Pig building a contraption called a Wolf Pacifier. Fifer and Fiddler then play around with the alarm (which is in the form of a horn) to get Practical's attention and when he discovers that it was just a trick, he warns his brothers, "Someday the Wolf'll get ya. Then you'll be in a fix. You'll blow that horn and I won't come. I'll think it's one of your tricks." He then storms off in a huff, but not after Fifer and Fiddler scare him again by blowing the horn right behind him, causing him to fire a big hole in the top of his hat with his blunderbuss.

Unbeknownst to Fifer and Fiddler, however, the Big Bad Wolf and his three sons are stalking them. The Wolf dresses in drag, this time as Little Bo Peep and he/she sadly tells the pigs that he/she lost his/her sheep and doesn't know where to find them. Then the pigs discover the sheep (the Wolf's three sons in disguise) and the Wolf and his sons, still in disguise, run away home, to the wolves' cave and the pigs follow. The Wolf then locks the door and swallows the key. At first, the pigs embarrassedly think that "Bo Peep" has sexual intentions (a rather unusual scene; "Why, Bo Peep!"), but of course, the wolves spring their trap and soon overwhelm the pigs. They try to blow the wolf alarm horn, but Practical, of course, doesn't come. Soon Fifer and Fiddler are soon put on a dinner dish by the wolves and they tauntingly blow the horn repeatedly. Still hoping for Practical to come to their rescue, the pigs challenge the wolf cub blowing the horn to blow it real loud ("Uh, why don't you blow it loud?"). He tries to, but can't, and the pigs think that was a sissy blow ("That's a sissy blow."). So the Big Bad Wolf tries to blow the horn to prove what the Wolf family is made of ("Sissy, huh? Gimme that horn. I'll show 'em!"). This time, it gets tooted real loud, so loud that this time, Practical hears ("The Wolf!") and goes to the rescue, pulling the Wolf Pacifier along behind him.

Now the Wolf is just about to place the pigs in the oven, but just before he does so, he hears a knock on the door. It's Practical, disguised as a fruits-and-vegetables salesman and he's giving a free sample on tomatoes and the Wolf accepts the offer and comes out, asking for Practical to let him have it ("Free sample? Well! Let me have it."), which Practical does... right in the Wolf's face. Furious, the Wolf chases Practical into the Wolf Pacifier contraption. The result is the Wolf getting assaulted by the contraption's many mechanisms: buzzsawed, bashed on the head by rolling pins, kicked by boots, punched by boxing gloves (at which point, the Wolf's sons rush out of their den to see what was going on), tarred and feathered and, finally, being shot out of a cannon, with his sons following him. The short ends with the Three Little Pigs emerging from the Wolf's den, playing "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" patriotically (with Fifer playing a flute, Fiddler beating a homemade drum and Practical holding a flag, which is really the Wolf's clothes).

Voice cast

• Billy Bletcher as Big Bad Wolf
• Pinto Colvig as Practical Pig
• Dorothy Compton as Fifer Pig
• Mary Moder as Fiddler Pig

External links

• Three Little Wolves (film) at the Internet Movie Database
• Three Little Wolves at The Encyclopaedia of Disney Animated Shorts