Crazy Cruise

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Crazy Cruise
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Story by Michael Maltese
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Rod Scribner
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • March 14, 1942 (1942-03-14)
LanguageEnglish

Crazy Cruise is a 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon. [1] The short was released on March 14, 1942. [2]

Contents

It was directed by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, whose names do not appear on the surviving print of the cartoon. Because Tex left the studio for Paramount Pictures in September 1941 before production was completed (it was the last he worked on), Clampett finished it, and both names were officially left off the credits. The only credits given are the story by Michael Maltese, animation by Rod Scribner, and musical direction by Carl Stalling.

Plot

This is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce that featured practically none of its stable of characters, just a series of gags, usually based on outrageous stereotypes and plays on words, as a narrator (voice of Robert C. Bruce) describes the action:

Reception

Motion Picture Exhibitor (April 8, 1942): "A burlesque cartoon, this pokes fun at all things held sacred by serious travel cruises. High spots are a land of ferocious cannibals known as the Hut Sut tribe and a battleship camouflaged so perfectly that only men aboard are visible. It's vivisection of more pompous travel films. Good." [3]

Home media

This cartoon was released, uncut, uncensored and digitally remastered, on the fifth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.

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References

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