Foundling Beaky Buzzard is adopted by a couple of polite, English sparrows named Monte and Gwendlyn. When Monte tries to teach lame-brained Beaky to catch a chicken, Beaky's ineptitude results in Monte being repeatedly struck with a mallet and caught in a grenade explosion.
Practical Effects
McKimson's precise timing of escalating mallet trauma
Acting
Blanc's posh sparrow vs dopey vulture vocal gymnastics
Director
Robert McKimson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beaky debuted in 1942's 'Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid' but McKimson redesigned him here as gawkier and more pathetic.
The British sparrow couple parodies postwar American fascination with English manners—polite on surface, accepting absurd violence underneath.
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