Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1945 · 7 mins · English

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Directed by

Friz Freleng

Starring

Mel Blanc

Sylvester obsessively chases a woodpecker that has nested high in a tree. He climbs, but the bird greases the trunk; his attempts to cut it down are foiled by a snarling dog, a running gag. He tries many tricks—placing his paw in the bird’s hole, getting a tomato smashed, seeing the bird disguised as an angel—yet sees through each ruse. In the end he rigs the tree with dynamite, the dog intervenes, the bird relights the fuse, and Sylvester ends up dressed as an angel himself.