Good Noose (1962)

Good Noose Review

Good Noose is a 1962 animated short film from the Looney Tunes series. It is a pretty solid, but far from great cartoon.

Daffy Duck is a stow-away on a ship commanded by a portly, who orders his First Mate, a parrot named Mr. Tristan, to locate any stowaways aboard his ship and to provide a rope to hang the unwanted passengers. Daffy is found and sentenced to hang but offers to entertain the Captain with magic if the Captain will spare his life. The Captain agrees to this proposition, but Daffy is not a magician, and each of his attempted tricks fail.

The plot of this short is really nothing to write home about. It’s an odd cartoon where Daffy is all on his own with no other famous Looney Tunes star co-starring with him. That led to him stealing the show obviously as the captain is quite forgettable and the parrot is only okay. The animation is pretty good and the final gag was great, but most of the humorous situations as presented here aren’t all that funny and/or exciting.

Daffy is a star, but even he could not save Good Noose from feeling rather uninspired and forgettable.

My Rating – 3.6