Homesteader Droopy

In this movie, Droopy moves out west to build a farm. However, when he fences off the water hole, the wolf comes by to shoot him and his wife and baby, because, like everything, it's the law of the west.

I don't think I've ever seen a Tex Avery cartoon that wasn't excellent. As a result, I have to use a completely different scale to evaluate his cartoons. This one is a 10, because the gags keep coming as fast as they can, including one shot that looks like a Gary Larson FAR SIDE cartoon. While the quality of the art has declined from wartime, due to dropping budget and inflation, that matters little. Avery is collaborating with his best writer, Heck Allen. When Allen wasn't coming up with gags for Avery -- and bemusedly noting that Avery didn't need him -- he was writing western novels. He did most of them under pseudonyms because he thought the studio wouldn't like it. After more than fifty novels and eighty screenplays, he died in 1991 at the age of 79.