Born to Peck
Genres
Overview
An elderly, suicidal Woody Woodpecker reminisces about his life as a woodpecker, as his ability to peck wood has vanished, leaving his life seemingly without energy.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
6 min
Release Date
1952-02-25
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
7
Vote Average
7.286
Mel Blanc
Woody Woodpecker's 'Guess Who?' Signature (archive sound)
Grace Stafford
Woody's Laugh / Mama & Papa Woodpecker (archive sound)
7.2
Tee for Two
Tom is golfing, but having no success. Jerry insures that remains the case.
1945-07-21 | en
5.4
My Last Five Girlfriends
Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, flashes back to his last five relationships (in the last four years) and considers what caused each one to fail. Based on the novel 'Essays in Love' by Alain de Botton.
2010-03-19 | en
6.0
License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
1999-01-23 | ja
6.8
Box Car Bandit
A bandit and his horse find out that a big shipment of gold bullion is being shipped by train, so they make immediate plans to hijack it. As fate would have it, Woody Woodpecker is the train's guard.
1957-04-07 | en
6.3
Niagara Fools
Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel, which the guard tells him is forbidden. Woody immediately decides to do it anyway.
1956-10-22 | en
6.9
Hatch Up Your Troubles
A baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.
1949-05-14 | en
7.2
The Old Grey Hare
Failed hunter Elmer Fudd laments that he's never able to catch the rabbit (Bugs Bunny); just then a bolt of lightning strikes, and the voice of God takes him through a flash-forward to the year 2000. Elmer and Bugs, now both elderly, look back to when they first met as babies.
1944-10-28 | en
7.0
Knock Knock
A woodpecker (Woody) repeatedly pecks the roof of Andy Panda's and his father's home. Daddy sets out to stop it.
1940-11-19 | en
6.5
Chew-Chew Baby
Boarding house proprietor Wally Walrus takes out an ad in the local paper looking for a sweetheart. Woody Woodpecker reads this and decides he might be able to trick Wally out of some cooking if he dresses up like a girl and answers the ad.
1945-02-04 | en
6.8
The Beach Nut
A crowd gathers at the beach to witness vacationer Wally Walrus thrashing Woody Woodpecker. Wally explains, in flashback, why he is trying to rid himself of Woody.
1944-10-15 | en
6.2
The Egg and Jerry
A lost baby woodpecker, that believes Jerry is its mother, does everything it can to save the mouse from Tom, who is once again in pursuit. A CinemaScope remake of the 1949 Tom and Jerry cartoon Hatch Up Your Troubles.
1956-03-23 | en
6.1
Woody Dines Out
Woody Woodpecker goes out to dine and accidentally stumbles into a taxidermist's shop, thinking it is a restaurant. The taxidermist, wanting a woodpecker to stuff, doesn't inform Woody otherwise.
1945-03-31 | en
6.8
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker spends his day singing loudly and pecking holes in trees. He infuriates the other woodland creatures - when he isn't baffling them with his bizarre behavior. Woody overhears a squirrel and a group of birds gossiping about him. Even though he just sang a song proclaiming his craziness, he denies their whispered accusations that he's nuts. But after they trick him into knocking his head on a statue, the poor bird hears voices in his head and decides the animals might be right. He decides to see a doctor.
1941-07-16 | en
6.4
Anna & Bella
Two sisters look back on their life together.
1984-08-16 | nl
5.6
A Peck o' Trouble
Lazy Dodsworth the Cat wants to catch a woodpecker for his breakfast. The woodpecker has built its home inside the upper trunk of a very tall tree, and Dodsworth puts on a professor's cap, pretending to be a passive teacher of bird-catching and thereby deceive an eager-to-learn kitten into doing the perilous ascending of the tree to try to catch the woodpecker.
1953-03-27 | en
7.0
Gold Diggin' Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker in the old prospecting days.
1972-06-18 | en
8.0
Bye, Bye, Blackboard
In the final theatrical Woody Woodpecker cartoon, Woody's dog Alfie follows him to school, where teacher Mrs. Meany tries to keep the dog out of her classroom.
1972-09-01 | en
8.0
Sleepy Time Chimes
Woody Woodpecker tries to get a night's rest in a bell tower.
1971-02-01 | en
8.0
How to Trap a Woodpecker
George the woodsman's wife, fed up with life in the wilderness, shows him an ad for an expensive fancy hat. She then kicks him out of his log cabin and sends him on a quest to trap Woody Woodpecker and obtain his feathers to make such a hat.
1971-06-18 | en
8.0
Woody the Freeloader
Woody Woodpecker fakes an illness to get all the comforts of home from a little old lady.
1968-04-01 | en