Shearing Cattle

The climactic scene has arrived. It’s a duel to the death between sheepherder and cattle rancher in “Drag-a-Long Droopy,” one of Tex Avery’s great cartoons. He sets up the collision in long shot.



Then they meet.



And here’s the end result.



Well, no, this is the end result.



It’s the Law of the West, you know.

Animation by Grant Simmons, Walt Clinton, Ray Patterson, Mike Lah and Bob Bentley.