Movie: A Peck o' Trouble

Top 2 Billed Cast

Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc

The Kitten (voice)

Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard

Dodsworth (voice)

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1953-03-27

  • Average

    5.6

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
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    English
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