Bugs and Thugs

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Bugs and Thugs
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Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Warren Foster
Produced by Edward Selzer
Starring Mel Blanc
Music by Milt Franklyn
Animation by Manuel Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Arthur Davis
Layouts by Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds byIrv Wyner
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • March 13, 1954 (1954-03-13)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Bugs and Thugs is a 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. [1] [a] The short was released on March 13, 1954, and stars Bugs Bunny, with Rocky and Mugsy. [2] The film is a semi-remake of the 1946 cartoon Racketeer Rabbit . It is also the first Warner Bros short to feature Milt Franklyn as a musical director.

Contents

In the film, Bugs mistakes the getaway car of a bank robber for a taxi and enters it uninvited, being taken hostage as a result.

Plot

Bugs Bunny walks through a city park reading a newspaper about rabbit hunting season. After grabbing a carrot from his bank's safe deposit box he ends up in a getaway car with Rocky and Mugsy who have just robbed a bank. While stopped at a gas station Bugs calls the police. Rocky and Mugsy's car breaks down after getting hit by a train. They go to a hidden safe house where Bugs outwits them before the police arrive where Rocky and Mugsy beg to be taken away. Bugs then becomes a private detective.

Reception

Jerry Beck writes, "A remake of director Friz Freleng's earlier crime classic Racketeer Rabbit (1946), which featured caricatures of Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre as the gangsters, Bugs and Thugs is faster and funnier, has a great modern design (thanks to Hawley Pratt's layouts), and introduces two great new foils — Rocky and Mugsy — for Bugs Bunny." [3]

Home media

Bugs and Thugs is available on the following DVDs:

The short was also available to stream on HBO Max in some territories until March 2025.

The short is also part of the Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and iTunes releases of Goodfellas as a part of a Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes bonus features compilation that also includes Racketeer Rabbit . [4]

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 259. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. pp. 26–27. ISBN   978-1-64722-137-9.
  4. ↑ Brown, Kenneth. "GoodFellas Blu-ray (DigiBook)". Blu-ray. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  1. ↑ While released in 1954, the short was copyrighted on December 28, 1953.
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