Little Beau Pepé

1952
6.9| 0h7m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 28 March 1952 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
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After driving the Foreign Legionnaires from their fort with his aroma, lovesick skunk Pepe falls for the camp mascot, a cat who's accidentally gotten a white stripe painted down her back.

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Cast

Mel Blanc

Director

Chuck Jones

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Warner Bros. Pictures

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Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
TheLittleSongbird Pepe Le Pew is not my favourite Looney Tunes character, but he is an entertaining one and also one that I appreciate much more than I did as a 10-year child 10 years ago. For me, For Scent-imental Reasons is Pepe's best cartoon, but Little Beau Pepe is still great. The animation is done in an elegant and beautifully-coloured style, one of the better-looking Pepe cartoons for me. The music is full of character and has a wonderful sense of irony and lush affection that suits Pepe and Looney Tunes cartoons so well. The writing has wit and that delicious self-irony that is an essential part of Pepe's character. The gags are just as clever and well timed, the ending is particularly great. The story is simple but effective in that regard, and is very crisply paced. Pepe and Penelope are very easy to like sort of characters, and Mel Blanc's vocals are superb.In conclusion, lots of fun. 9/10 Bethany Cox
MartinHafer This is yet another fun and typical Pepe Le Pew cartoon. While the formula is pretty well set and there are no huge surprises, it is a fun and very pleasant cartoon--and features some wonderful Chuck Jones animation.The film begins in a fort in North Africa manned by the French Foreign Legion. Their mascot is a cat and NATURALLY she is accidentally painted to look like a skunk. When a real skunk appears (Pepe), the Legionaires run--leaving Pepe to pursue la petite femme skunk! The action seems like a combination of a Foreign Legion film and THE SHEIK and what's best about it is its funny ending when the hunter becomes the hunted. Great stuff and hard to beat entertainment.
Robert Reynolds The whole premise of the Pepe Le Pew cartoons is based on a whopping bit of irony-a French skunk styling himself as "the great lover" (think Charles Boyer squared) but, for reasons obvious to everyone save himself, he finds it difficult to get a date on Saturday nights. Like a great many would-be Lotharios, when the tables turn, Pepe turns chicken and runs. A very funny cartoon, with a joke that will be particularly enjoyable for horse racing fans, at least older ones anyway. One party-pooper note: by law (unless it's been changed) French nationals cannot join the French Foreign Legion, which, given the name, should be stunningly obvious. Well worth tracking down. Recommended.
Angel-Marie Warning: May contain spoilers that may shock or disturb younger or more sensitive viewers. Please don't sue if your kid reads this and cries.Though "The Cats Bah" took first place for Most Stylishly Done PLP (Pepe Le Pew) Cartoon, I have to give this one honorary mention, because of the styling of the Sahara Desert, the oasis, and the tent with the many purple and pink throw pillows and lace curtains (I can still see it when I shut my eyes!)Anyway...Like I said about "Scent Of The Matterhorn", "Two Scents Worth"...well, pretty much all 17 of the Jones-directed Pepe Le Pew cartoons (except for "Dog Pounded, which was directed by Freleng, and "Odor of the Day", directed by Arthur Davis--and including the 1959 one directed by Jones' animator, Abe Levitow), this one just oozes a subtle (sometimes overt) sense of sex appeal that only WW-II era cartoons and "Three's Company" could measure up to, but never beat. The entire last part where Pepe carries his unconscious object of desire to a tent all the way out in an oasis decorated with what I had mentioned earlier and makes an aphrodisiac out of really strong perfumes that work too well, which sends Pepe racing across the desert while his aphrodisiac-affected Penelope pursues him (reminiscent of "For Scent-imental Reasons, BTW) unsettled me (at first) and Pepe's ending remark, "Why is it that whenever a man is captured by a woman, all he wish to do is get away?" was a little sexist, but true to life.9 stars out of ten.