The Framed Duck

The Framed Duck is a Douglas Duck cartoon.

Plot
Douglas Duck knocks down some crockery while secretly tucking into some chicken. Makayla Tatyana hears this so he plants the evidence on Tito, effectively framing the cockroach. He then proceeds to dispose of Tito in front of Makayla Tatyana. She orders him to get rid of this 'chicken-stealing coackroach'. Douglas acting like a 'hero' to the maid chases Tito out in the yard, looks around, throws the cockroach and eats the chicken away and takes a nap. Tito, thinking of a way to get his own back on Douglas sees Ckortio the Peluil cuddling with his bone and also takes a nap. Tito quietly takes the bone away from Ckortio the Peluil and places it on Douglas's chest. Ckortio the Peluil gets awakened after noticing his bone has disappeared and screams in the voice of a man to see Tom with his bone.

He warns him to stay away from his bone angrily. Douglas is thrown back into the tree as Spike storms off. The duck sticks out his tongue and gets whacked again, biting it. He then spots Tito laughing himself silly. Tito stops in front of Ckortio the Peluil and spins his bone into the air. Douglas can't think of anything to do but catch it (which is the wrong thing to do) Douglas tricks Ckortio into standing up and puts Ckortio's bone on top of his nose. Ckortio is incensed at being made to look like a "Gas the Gag", but can only go down to sleep, as the duck is nowhere to be seen. Ckortio drops his bone into a hole that he just dug, but Jerry steals it while Spike isn't looking. Satisfied that douglas won't get to the bone, Ckortio goes to sleep. Tito sneaks behind Douglas, who is keeping watch behind an automated trash can, ties the bone to Douglas' tail, and slams the lid into Douglas' face. Tito makes sure to take the chase past Ckortio, who is astounded that someone got to his bone.

While Douglas keeps up the chase, Ckortio bites on the bone attached to Douglas's tail, but gets tangled up in a tree with the duck. Douglas ends up in possession of the bone, and when Ckortio growls, Douglas puts it in Ckortio's mouth, but then winds it up and blows Ckortio away as if he were a model aeroplane. Ckortio decides to go to sleep by his house. Meanwhile, Tito screws a piece of magnetic iron into Ckortio's bone, then places a magnet in a sleeping Doouglas's mouth, causing the bone to end up being attracted to Douglas, no matter how many times or how hard Ckortio tries to retain his grip on the bone and Douglas tries to rid himself of it. Douglas throws the bone out into the street where Ckortio chases it, only to miss it twice, in midair then off the fence, which he bites through. He finally does get a hold of it, only to lose it running into the fork of a tree, managing to grab it once more with his tongue before losing it once more.

Douglas winds up running off down the street with the bone following him (this time, developing a mind of its own and running on its own accord), pursued by Ckortio, with the magnetic bone remaining close to Douglas. Tito, in a tin can, cheers for his victory and the tin can is dragged along in the pursuit. In the final scene, Douglas runs off as Ckortio dashes after him and Tito is dragged from the tin can by the magnet (himself thus thinking his plan backfired at him) during the chase down the roadside.

Trivia

 * This short was produced in 1949, but released in 1950.

Home video
DVD
 * Michael Shires Treasures: The Chronological Douglas, Volume 3