Abdul the Bulbul Ameer

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After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.After Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar trods on his toe, Abdul the Bulbul Ameer challenges him to a fight.

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6.1/10

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Leon Belasco

Ivan Skavinsky
(uncredited)
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Hans Conried

Abdul
(uncredited)

Johnny Murray

Fight Commentator
(uncredited)

Harry Stanton

Singing Narration
(uncredited)

Directors
- Robert Allen
- Hugh Harman
Writer
- Gus Arriola
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Trivia
Leon Belasco, who voices the character of the Russian Ivan Skavinsky, was born in the Russian Empire city of Odessa (in present-day Ukraine).

Goofs
When Abdul first removes the slipper from his right foot and pinches Ivan's Attaché's nose between his big toe and the adjacent toe, the foot has four toes. In the closeup of Abdul's smashed right foot, he has five toes. The next shot shows Abdul's left foot and ripped slipper (with the right foot slipper completely intact), and it has only four toes.

Quotes
[first lines]
Singing Narration: The sons of the prophet are brave men and bold / And quite unaccustomed to fear / But the bravest by far in the ranks of the shah / Was Abdul the Bul-bul Ameer.
Abdul: You said it, boss.

Soundtracks
Abdul Abulbul Amir
(uncredited)
Written by William Percy French and Frank Crumit

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6/10

Songs My Father Sang

Robert Allen and Hugh Harman direct this cartoon, based on a musical version of the poem about Ivan Sklavinsky Sklavar and Abdul the Bulbul Emir duking it out.

It was one of the comic songs my father sang to us when I were a lad, although he was fonder of "The Walloping Wind o' Blind". This one had a more risque version about the sultan's harem, but I didn't find out about that until I googled it in preparation for this review. Live and learn.

Harman & Ising had lost a lot of their status at MGM, which now had an active cartoon division, under the supervision of Fred Quimby; soon he would hire Tex Avery, and make it a powerhouse in the animation field. For the moment, here's a rare funny Hugh Harman cartoon, thanks, no doubt, to Mr. Allen.