One Froggy Evening (1955)
Genre:
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Musical (more)
Plot Outline: A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner. (more)
User Comments:
Von Stroheim Can Kiss My Singing Green ***
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User Rating:
 
8.9/10 (545 votes)
| (in alphabetical order) | | Bill Roberts | .... | Michigan J. Frog (singing voice) (uncredited) | | ��(more) |
Runtime:
7 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16892)
Trivia:
'Steven Spielberg' once described this as "the most perfect cartoon ever made".
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Goofs:
Continuity: When the owner of the frog gets thrown out of the talent agency, there's a hand-print on the wall to the side of the door he is thrown from. In the next shot it's gone.
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Quotes:
Michigan J. Frog:
[singing] Hello, my baby / hello, my honey / hello, my ragtime gal. / Send me a kiss by wire / baby, my hearts on fire / if you refuse me / honey, you'll lose me / then you'll be left alone / Oh baby, telephone and tell me I'm your own.
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Awards:
1 win
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User Comments:
7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Von Stroheim Can Kiss My Singing Green ***, 24 July 1999
Author:
Douglas Butcher ([email protected]) from The Great American Heartland
"Greed" is one of the great American classics, but so often we limit
ourselves to thinking of a film as a multi-hour feature film with live
actors. In "One Froggy Evening" Chuck Jones tells the story of a
construction worker demolishing a building and discovers a frog in the
cornerstone. A SINGING FROG. Naturally, the first impulse is to make money
on the frog. The only problem, the frog will only sing for this one guy. Not
paying crowds, not talent agents, ONLY HIM. Slowly he is driven mad, not so
much by the frog but by his own failed plans with the frog. Failing to
recognize the special gift he has, he sees the building going up and sticks
the frog back into the cornerstone. Years pass, and when the laser
demolition-man is vaporizing the building with his 21st century technology,
what does he find? A SINGING FROG. "You know," he thinks, "I could make some
money." And so the cycle continues. People of any time are the same, they
never learn. There's your moral. Chuck Jones does in 7 minutes what Von
Stroheim took 7 hours to do. A genuine masterpiece of animation.
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