Hopalong Casualty

Hopalong Casualty is a 1960 Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, featuring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. Chuck Jones directed. Wile E. Coyote (Hard-Headipus ravenus), as usual, tries various devices to try to trap the Road Runner (Speedipus rex), all of which backfire. For instance, his attempt to trick the Road Runner into an Acme Parcel-making Machine results in a neatly-packaged Coyote. The opening sequence finds the Coyote actually chasing down, leaping and grabbing his quarry by the throat. A two-second wrestling match follows, with both combatants in a round ball rolling down the road from the force of their running - but Wile E. emerges "holding" only a smoke outline of the bird. In the cartoon's longest...