Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking skeletons, animate hieroglyphics and other strange sights..
William Nolan, Tex Avery, Jack Carr
United States
If you have seven minutes to spare today and love weird, rubbery black-and-white cartoons, The Shriek is absolutely worth a quick look.It is perfect for anyone who likes early, chaotic animation where the laws of physics do not exist, but if you need things like a deep plot, you will probably hate it.This is an old Osw...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
William Nolan
Hal Roach
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"If you have seven minutes to spare today and love weird, rubbery black-and-white cartoons, The Shriek is absolutely worth a quick look.It is perfect for anyone who likes early, chaotic animation where the laws of physics do not exist, but if you need things like a deep plot, you will probably hate it.This is an old Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short from 1933, and it is basically a wild parody of those old desert romance movies. The story starts with a peg-legged sheik who just swoops in and kidnaps ..."
