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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1175

The Booze Hangs High

19306 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 6:08
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Warner Bros. Cartoons · Public domain

Synopsis

Bosko turns a farmyard into a musical playground, finding instruments in an animal's tail and a pitchfork. Feeding the pigs introduces a bottle of alcohol into the performance. Rhythm, drinking and bodily gags carry the animals through an increasingly unruly routine.

DirectorsHugh Harman Rudolf Ising

Inspirations

Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising parody songs and performance elements from the musical Song of the Flame. The short's title itself plays on one of that film's songs.

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