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Bugs and Thugs

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Bugs and Thugs
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Directed byI. Freleng
Story byWarren Foster
Produced byEdward Selzer
StarringMel Blanc
Music byMilt Franklyn
Animation byManuel Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Arthur Davis
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byIrv Wyner
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner 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] 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.

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.

Reception

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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

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Bugs and Thugs is available on the following DVDs:

The short is also available to stream on Max in some territories.

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

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See also

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References

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  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 6 June 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 25 March 2024.
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