Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)
7m
Running Time
October 7, 1938Release Date
Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)
7m
Running Time
October 7, 1938Release Date
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Plot.
Little Pancho Vanilla dreams of becoming a bullfighter, but his mother tells him that's impossible. The greatest bullfighter in Mexico, Don Jose, is coming to town; Pancho tells the local women he's better, so he goes to the amateur tryout, but he gets thrown out because he's so small. The bull quickly disposes of the other amateurs, sending one over the fence, where he catapults Pancho into the ring right on top of the bull, knocking out the bull to great acclaim from the crowd.
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Little Pancho Vanilla is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, with story by Tedd Pierce. The short was released on October 8, 1938.Pancho is a Mexican boy, described by comics historian Don Markstein as "even more heavily stereotyped and lacking most of [Speedy Gonzales]'s particularly admirable attributes."Despite only appearing in one cartoon, Pancho was resurrected in 1952 as a backup feature in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic book, appearing from issue #130 (Aug 1952) to #154 (Aug 1954).