The Beach Nut

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = The Beach Nut
series = Woody Woodpecker


caption =
director = James Culhane
story_artist = Ben Hardaway
Milt Schaffer
animator = Philip DeGuard
Lester Kline
Dick Lundy
voice_actor = Hans Conried
Ben Hardaway
musician = Darrell Calker
producer = Walter Lantz
studio = Walter Lantz Productions
distributor = Universal Pictures
release_date = flagicon|US October 16, 1944
color_process = Technicolor
runtime =
movie_language = English
preceded_by = "The Barber of Seville"
followed_by = "Ski for Two"
imdb_id = 0149815

"The Beach Nut" is the 11th animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker" series. Released theatrically on October 16, 1944, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Plot

The film opens in medias res with vacationer Wally Walrus beating Woody Woodpecker into submission on a beach boardwalk. Wally explains to the gathered crowd what happened earlier to provoke his anger:

Wally decides to go to the beach to relax, but is constantly disturbed by beachgoer Woody.

Wally Walrus

"The Beach Nut" marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, Wally Walrus. Voiced by actor Hans Conried, Wally would become Woody's primary arch ememy steadily through to 1948, before being more or less replaced with Buzz Buzzard in "Wet Blanket Policy".

Cultural References

*While surfing Woody sings My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.

References

*Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. " [http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1944.html 1944] ". "The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia".