"Ducking the Devil" is one of McKimson's most successful films, because it aptly combines the ferocity of Taz with the cowardliness and avarice of Daffy Duck, who reads in a newspaper that the Tasmanian Devil escaped. It warns: "The Tasmanian devil is a powerful, vicious, evil tempered brute ... hungry at all times ... it will eat anything but is especially fond of wild duck". On the radio Daffy hears that the Tasmanian Devil is an "extremely rare and valuable animal" he can collect a cash reward of $5,000 if he can lure the Devil back to a zoo in a city. "The brute becomes dosile when exposed to music" says the man on the radio.

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The premise works admirably, and the scenes of Daffy scrambling to provide music, first from a radio whose plug cord is not sufficiently long, next from a trombone that comes apart, then from his own, drying vocal chords, each time finding a solution at the last possible moment before Taz devours him, are all superbly animated.

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Title Ducking the Devil (1957)
Story Ted Pierce
Animation George Grand Pré, Ted Bonnicksen
Layouts  Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds Bill Butler
Filmeditor Treg Brown
Voice Characterization Mel Blanc
Music Milt Franklyn
Directed by&; Robert Mc Kimson

This text is an edited version of the original text of Kevin McCorry.