The Reckless Driver
Genres
Overview
Driving down a U.S. highway, Woody Woodpecker passes a billboard which reminds him that he should renew his driver's license. He heads to the Department of Motor Vehicles and asks Officer Wally Walrus, who takes an immediate dislike to Woody, to give him the test. He puts Woody through the eye test, the reflex test, and the fingerprint test...with Woody constantly making short work of the walrus' patience.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
6 min
Release Date
1946-08-26
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
7
Vote Average
7.3
Mel Blanc
Woody Woodpecker's Laugh (archive sound)
Hans Conried
Wally Walrus (archive sound)
Ben Hardaway
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Jack Mather
Wally Walrus (archive sound)
Will Wright
Wally Walrus (voice)
7.2
Tee for Two
Tom is golfing, but having no success. Jerry insures that remains the case.
1945-07-21 | en
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
6.2
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
6.9
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
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
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
6.1
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
5.9
Johnny Puff: Secret Mission
Johnny Puff and his friends go on a secret mission to save Taigasville from the evil plans of the villainous engineer Otto von Walrus.
2024-01-12 | 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
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
8.0
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
For a chance at free food at a barn dance, Woody Woodpecker dresses as a girl to fool ticket taker Wally Walrus.
1951-10-29 | en
6.6
Wild and Woody!
Woody Woodpecker gallops into a wild western town, which can't keep a sheriff very long due to the notorious outlaw (and sheriff-killer) Buzz Buzzard. Woody volunteers for the position but barely has time to shine up his badge before Buzz rides in with intent to do harm to Sheriff Woody. But Woody has no intentions of allowing Buzz to follow through on his intents.
1948-12-31 | en
7.3
Born to Peck
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.
1952-02-25 | en
5.7
Don't Look Now
It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
1936-11-07 | 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
Woody the Freeloader
Woody Woodpecker fakes an illness to get all the comforts of home from a little old lady.
1968-04-01 | en