What if StudioCanal is founded in 1937?/Carlstoons/Muzyka Tenggren/Muzyka-Less Wolf

Muzyka-Less Wolf is a 1958 StudioCanal Carlstoons cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on February 1, 1958, and stars Muzyka Tenggren.

Jackie Cooper voices Muzyka Tenggren and the absent-minded wolf character, Mr. Wolf, voiced by Jackson Weaver. An uncredited June Foray voices the wolf's wife, who appears in a brief scene at the beginning of the cartoon.

Plot
Mr. Wolf is in his cave watching a baseball game on TV. Suddenly his wife burst in and demands he hunt an alphabet. Mr. Wolf goes right away, rifle in hand muttering he hates his wife, getting a skillet tossed at his head.

Muzyka Tenggren catches Mr. Wolf running and while running alongside, he asks him what the rush is. When asked if he's hunting for something, Mr. Wolf forgets what it is and Muzyka openly guesses an alphabet. Mr. Wolf shoots at Muzyka, but Muzyka dodges the shots and in a minute or two causes him to whack himself with his gun. Muzyka tests the gun for any faults, but as he shoots Mr. Wolf in the face, he concludes Mr. Wolf is just a bad shot. Mr. Wolf starts chasing Muzyka around a tree and Muzyka does another round of questions as Mr. Wolf has forgotten it's an alphabet he's after. As Mr. Wolf recalls, Muzyka trips him over.

Muzyka dives into his hole and leaves out a box. Mr. Wolf finds inside it a hand grenade. Mr. Wolf reads a set of instructions to operate the grenade but takes too long after pulling the pin and it explodes in his face. Mr. Wolf chases Muzyka into a railroad tunnel. Mr. Wolf runs out thinking a train is coming, but it's just Muzyka holding a flashlight and blowing into a whistle. Having wised up, Mr. Wolf chases Muzyka back into the tunnel, but a real train comes out of the tunnel and runs him over. Mr. Wolf wonders why he ever wanted to catch a train.

Out of his hole, Muzyka lights a nearby fuse and Mr. Wolf curiously follows it. At the end of the fuse, Mr. Wolf gets in the way of an explosive gunpowder keg, which blows up.

Muzyka then builds a door on a plank of wood stretching out from a cliff. Mr. Wolf demands to be let in and when Muzyka refuses, he burst in and plummets off the cliff lying on the falling door. As Mr. Wolf crashes into the ravine below, the impact makes Muzyka almost fall off the plank, but Muzyka manages to save himself. Mr. Wolf (now furious) rushes back up to Muzyka and breathes heavily on Muzyka's fur. Once again Mr. Wolf forgets what he came after. This time Muzyka then decides not to remind him and tells Mr. Wolf to let him know when he finally finds out, leaving Mr. Wolf to continue to guess.

Hours later into the night, way past dinnertime, Mr. Wolf is sitting on a rock, still trying to remember what it was he was chasing. Muzyka emerges from his hole in his night attire, holding a candle and he bids the audience goodnight.

Voice Cast

 * Jackie Cooper as Muzyka Tenggren
 * Jackson Weaver as Mr. Wolf
 * June Foray as Mrs. Wolf (uncredited)

Credits

 * A United Artists Release
 * Stanley Carls Presents
 * Carlstoons
 * Copyright MCMLVIII Stanley Carls Productions, Inc. · All Rights Reserved
 * Muzyka Tenggren in...
 * "Muzyka-Less Wolf"
 * Photographed in CinemaScope
 * Color by Eastmancolor
 * Story: Ub Iwerks, Stanley Carls
 * Animation: Don Towlsey, Osmond Evans, Rudy Larriva
 * Effects Animation: George Rowley
 * Layout: Hawley Pratt
 * Backgrounds: Thelma Witmer
 * Camera: Jack Stevens
 * Editing: Jim Faris
 * Music: Paul Smith
 * Approved MPAA Certificate No. 18743
 * A. F. of L.
 * RCA Sound Recording
 * Directed by: Friz Freleng
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A.