One of Norm McCabe's cartoons from his very short tenure as a director at Warner Bros. - he took over Bob Clampett's unit when Clampett took over Tex Avery's, and then Frank Tashlin took over the unit - "Hop and Go" looks like a possible precursor to the Hippety Hopper cartoons. The cartoon portrays a dimwitted kangaroo named Claude Hopper (his voice is provided by Pinto Colvig, most famous as Goofy in the Disney cartoons). A total sucker, Claude never realizes what a pair of sadistic Scottish rabbits are using him for their own personal entertainment!
One of the rabbits is named Sandy. I hear that the Scots do often shorten Alexander to Sandy. Anyway, it's an OK cartoon for the brief entertainment that it provides. McCabe never really got a chance to develop a theme or style in his cartoons - the famous Looney Tunes directors all developed their own styles - but the few of his that I've seen certainly have made me laugh. This one did. Worth seeing, although it probably did function more as a place-holder when it came out; 1943 saw the release of such greats as "A Corny Concerto", "Super-Rabbit", "Pigs in a Polka" and "Porky Pig's Feat".
One of the rabbits is named Sandy. I hear that the Scots do often shorten Alexander to Sandy. Anyway, it's an OK cartoon for the brief entertainment that it provides. McCabe never really got a chance to develop a theme or style in his cartoons - the famous Looney Tunes directors all developed their own styles - but the few of his that I've seen certainly have made me laugh. This one did. Worth seeing, although it probably did function more as a place-holder when it came out; 1943 saw the release of such greats as "A Corny Concerto", "Super-Rabbit", "Pigs in a Polka" and "Porky Pig's Feat".