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Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)

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Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)

Name: Little Pancho Vanilla
Genre: Animation
Released: 1938-10-07

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October 7, 1938
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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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Cast & Crew.

Mel Blanc

Little Pancho Vanilla

Frank Tashlin

Director

Tedd Pierce

Story

Leon Schlesinger

Producer

Shirley Reed

Mexican Girls

Carl W. Stalling

Original Music Composer

Ynez Seabury

Mother

Treg Brown

Editor / Sound Effects Editor

Robert McKimson

Animation

Art Loomer

Background Designer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
October 7, 1938

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Animation

Last updated: 2025-03-01

This Movie Is About.

mexico

bullfight

cartoon

short

Wiki.

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).