The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

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The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, famed for its surreal, fast-paced parody of hardboiled detective stories starring Daffy Duck as “Duck Twacy.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American animated film
Looney Tunes cartoon
animated short film
animationType traditional hand-drawn animation
backgroundArtist Richard H. Thomas
basedOn detective fiction tropes
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States
director Bob Clampett
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
era Golden Age of American animation
featuresCharacter Daffy Duck
Duck Twacy
featuresStyle exaggerated cartoon violence
rapid-fire slapstick humor
featuresTheme hardboiled detective parody
genre comedy
parody
surreal comedy
hasFictionalAliasForProtagonist Duck Twacy
hasFormat theatrical short
hasSetting Daffy Duck's dream
includesCharacter villainous gang of criminals
includesObject piggy bank
languageOfTitle English
layoutArtist Thomas McKimson
mainCharacter Daffy Duck
musicBy Carl W. Stalling
notableFor fast-paced gags
parody of crime and detective comics
surreal visual style
originalLanguage English
parodies Dick Tracy
partOfFranchise Looney Tunes
plotFocus investigation of stolen piggy banks
producer Edward Selzer
productionCompany Warner Bros. Cartoons
releaseDate 1946-07-20
releaseYear 1946
runtimeMinutes 7
series Looney Tunes
starsVoice Mel Blanc
studio Warner Bros. Cartoons
targetAudience general audience
title The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
voiceActor Mel Blanc

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Bob Clampett notableWork The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery title The Great Piggy Bank Robbery