Big Man from the North

Big Man from the North is a 1930 Looney Tunes short directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.
== Plot ==
A blizzard ravages Canada, even blowing away the title screen when the scene shows a mounted police cabin. Inside, a dog Mountie sergeant walks back and forth with a pipe, occasionally spitting at the stove when he hears a knock at the door. It's Bosko, a sheriff! Bosko runs in, and he and the sergeant struggle to close the door due to the blizzard outside. Bosko hangs on to the sergeant's pants, which come off embarrassingly. The sergeant has enough strength to shut the door and lock it. The dog scorns at Bosko, still holding the sergeant's pants. Bosko sheepishly asks the sergeant, "These y-yours Mr. Sergeant?” The clothed sergeant dog walks behind a table, points at a $5000 wanted poster and tells Bosko to "get your man!” A nervous Bosko replies "W-w-who me?" in which the sergeant orders him to go. Bosko runs outside, bracing himself for the wind where two big dogs and one small dog attached to a sled who barks in a pattern.
Silly antics ensue as Bosko rides the sled through the snowy hills and fields. Sliding downhill, the small dog gets hit by boulders which spin him in the air two times. With extreme speed at the end of the hill, the dogs collide with a bar wall transforming them into a three-headed dog which walks away.
Bosko approaches the bar doors, noticing the same wanted poster that the sheriff had shown him. He spit-shines his sheriff star before walking in. Guns loaded, he walks into the bar where the patrons and Honey are having a great time. Honey sings along with the piano "Chinnin' and Chattin' with May" with all patrons keeping the beat. Bosko, lovestruck, puts his guns in his pants and starts to scat-sing too with Honey with a scene showing the patrons applauding the audience of which are beavers, dogs, horses, a moose, etc. Bosko moves toward the piano playing a solo performing many playing tricks along the song. Beaver slap their tails to the beat on a bar table (animation reused in "Bosko at the Zoo") with the cannibal pelican (!) from "Congo Jazz" emerges from a spittoon. Bosko begins to scat-sing and play the piano at the same time until he hears gunshots. It's the outlaw from the poster, loaded and wildly shooting things. He bangs the bar table, probably demanding for beer.
Behind the outlaw, Bosko screams, "Hey!" but instead of the outlaw being afraid, the outlaw laughs. "You is arrested!” screams Bosko firing his gun, but Bosko's gun is a pop gun giving the outlaw an easy break. Bosko spits out the lamp on the ceiling, then, a battle in the dark ensues. When the light goes back on, the outlaw looks around for Bosko, who's in a spittoon shooting a machine gun at the outlaw's rear. With a knife, the outlaw gets stuck in the saloon doors. Bosko grabs the knife and plunges it into the enemy's bottom. Bosko fires a rifle and shoots the hair off the outlaw to reveal it's a wimp. Embarrassed, the outlaw runs away.
== Availability ==
lt smart money.jpg|(2008) DVD Smart Money (1931 film)
lt wgc3.jpg|(2008) DVD Warner Gangsters Collection Volume 3
== Censorship ==
* When this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon, back when their Looney Tunes on Nick compilation show was on Nick at Nite and frequently aired black and white 1930s cartoons, the scene of Bosko stabbing the villain in the backside was cut, though the part where Bosko shoots the man in the butt wasn't edited.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-b.aspx
== Notes ==
* This cartoon was shown in theatres with Man to Man during its original release.
* This cartoon fell in the public domain in 1958 as Sunset Productions did not renew the copyright in time.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
fr:Big Man from the North
Category:1930
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Bosko Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons directed by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons animated by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons animated by Robert Edmunds
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown