A Wet Knight
| A Wet Knight | |
|---|---|
| Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series | |
 First scene | |
| Directed by | Walter Lantz Bill Nolan |
| Produced by | Walter Lantz |
| Story by | Walter Lantz Bill Nolan |
| Music by | James Dietrich |
| Animation by | Manuel Moreno Ray Abrams Fred Avery Bill Weber Vet Anderson Lester Kline Bunny Ellison |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 20, 1932 |
| Color process | Black and white |
| Running time | 8:45 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Cat Nipped |
| Followed by | A Jungle Jumble |
A Wet Knight is an animated short film starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and produced by Walter Lantz. It is the 61st Oswald short produced by Lantz and the 113th overall.
Storyline
Oswald and a live female stuffed doll are boating in the lake. To spice up their trip, Oswald plays a guitar. Suddenly, it started to rain, and night fell rather quickly. The rainstorm was so heavy that their boat split in half and sunk. Fortunately for them, land was just nearby as Oswald and the doll jumped to their safety.
Looking for shelter in the midst of the forrest that night, Oswald and the doll found an abandoned castle. The two became curious about what's inside, and they made their move through the entrance. Upon entering, the castle's entrance door closed by itself, and the two wonderers were quite surprised.
The first of the bizarre things they encountered were a trio of bear-like images made of fog. Oswald and the doll were trembled for a moment but breathed a sigh of relief when the fog characters dissipated.
Meanwhile, a mutated gorilla arrives just outside the castle. Although lightning bombard around it several times, the large creature was able to dodge every strike. The gorilla then proceeds into the castle.
Back inside, Oswald and the doll saw a faint cloudy image of a person playing the harpsichord. This time, they were less afraid. The rabbit attempts to touch the humanoid image but couldn't as if he was contacting thin air. Just then, the mutated gorilla showed up behind them. Insisting that the huge ape was just another illusion, Oswald tried to punch it. He then realized that the gorilla was real when he felt its presence. Oswald and the doll hurriedly fled, and so did the ghostly harpsichord player.
After dashing through some of the castle's hallways for a few minutes, Oswald told the doll to hide in a casket while he goes around to look for weaponry. When Oswald left, however, a skeleton came by and steps inside the casket. The doll was frightened and quickly gets out.
As he goes on walking, Oswald picks up an ax and decides to take on the huge ape. When they met, Oswald swings his weapon and the gorilla was intimidated. But before the rabbit could land a blow, the head of the ax falls off.
Disarmed, Oswald retreats and quickly returns to the casket where he left his friend. Upon opening the coffin's lid, he was surprised that the doll wasn't there but the skeleton that took over.
The doll was just a few corridors ahead of her partner. Upon hearing loud noises getting nearer, she hides into a chamber near a dead end and locks its door. Oswald tries to enter that room, assuming his friend was inside, but no one opened. As the gorilla was closing in on the rabbit, the doll finally opens the door and gives Oswald a double-tubed rifle. Oswald uses the gun but the bullets just drop out of the rifle's end rather than being fired.
In doubt of what he should do, Oswald puts a small wooden stave between his neck and shoulder, and challenges the gorilla to knock it off. The gorilla throws a right hook and Oswald was sent bouncing off the walls, but the stave remained in place. The gorilla then decides to flick the tiny piece of wood off with its finger which worked. Little did the gorilla know that the flicked stave started knocking down a number of nearby ornaments. This domino effect lead to toppling a statue holding a torch, causing it to light the fuse of a cannon which is aimed at the gorilla. Upon being struck by the cannonball, the gorilla was reduced to bones. The doll, at last, comes out of the chamber and exaggeratedly gives Oswald hugs.
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External links
Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wet_Knight
