I saw this film on the DVD entitled "Cartoon Crazys: And The Envelope Please". This is a rather poor compilation of supposedly award winning and nominated films. Poor because several of the films are very lame and are NOT award nominated, the prints are rather bad and parts of some of the cartoons are missing! One of the films that is missing portions is THE DOVER BOYS. Now here is the sad and sleazy part--the jerks who packaged this collection clipped the opening and closing credits off this and one other Looney Tune cartoon (PIGS IN A POLKA)--thus not giving anyone credit for having made this film. Plus, unlike the title to the collection suggests, THE DOVER BOYS was never award nominated--though it certainly is a very good film. If you do want to see this film, try buying "The Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2". It not only is the entire cartoon, but the print is light-years better, as the one in "Cartoon Crazies" is very orange and second-rate.
If you compare this cartoon to later Looney Tunes films made during the post-WWII years, you might think that my score of 8 is a bit too high. However, compared to the average film the studio was making during the war years, it's definitely among their best and seems to merit an 8. Sadly, while not nominated, it was a lot better than Looney Tunes' PIGS IN A POLKA which was the nominee that the year. The parody of the old fashioned Rover Boys adventures is very funny and the ending is cute and unexpected.
The "classic" Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes cartoons we all love and admire were almost exclusively made AFTER the war and the quality of the 1947-1955 cartoons are consistently great and a joy to watch. So, buying the Golden Collections seems like a great idea.
If you compare this cartoon to later Looney Tunes films made during the post-WWII years, you might think that my score of 8 is a bit too high. However, compared to the average film the studio was making during the war years, it's definitely among their best and seems to merit an 8. Sadly, while not nominated, it was a lot better than Looney Tunes' PIGS IN A POLKA which was the nominee that the year. The parody of the old fashioned Rover Boys adventures is very funny and the ending is cute and unexpected.
The "classic" Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes cartoons we all love and admire were almost exclusively made AFTER the war and the quality of the 1947-1955 cartoons are consistently great and a joy to watch. So, buying the Golden Collections seems like a great idea.