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Fresh Hare (1942)

 -  Family | Animation | Short  -  22 August 1942 (USA)
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In the Canadian North Woods, Bugs is wanted dead or alive and Elmer is out to bring him in.

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Bugs Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
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Elmer Fudd (voice) (uncredited)
The Sportsmen Quartet ...
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Storyline

Mountie Elmer is on the trail of Bugs who's wanted dead or alive, "preferably dead". Elmer gets handcuffed to a bomb. Bugs looks through all Elmer's keys but can't seem to find the right one... Bugs foils Elmer with tricks like the Elmer-shaped snowman. Finally Bugs lets himself be arrested. Elmer takes Bugs back to the log stockade and puts Bugs up before a Mountie firing squad. But Bugs starts singing "Dixie". The stockade becomes a field of cotton, and all the Mounties, including Elmer, turn into singing Negro minstrels! Written by David Steele

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Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

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Jäniksen metsästys  »

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Trivia

Features, for the last time, the redesigned overweight Elmer Fudd of the early 40s. See more »

Quotes

[while chasing Bugs in the snow, Elmer crashes into a tree; the snow falls off the tree, revealing ornaments on it; Elmer emerges from the snow, wearing a Santa Claus beard and hat made out of snow]
Bugs Bunny: Merry Christmas, Santie.
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Soundtracks

Oh, You Beautiful Doll
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Music by Nat Ayer
Played during the shot of the Wanted poster with Bugs done up as Hitler
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The Wabbit Hunting Diet
19 January 2004 | by (Rijswijk, ZH, Netherlands) – See all my reviews

You know the quality is going to be above average when a cartoon starts with an big orchestral intro and a still picture to complement the titles. Bugs Bunny, looking slightly less cute than he would in later years (and still having to be content with his name under the titles) evades and tricks Elmer the Mountie at every turn. Back in these days Elmer was so overweight he had to wear a girdle. But if you look closely you can actually see him sweating off those pounds during the wild chase scenes.

In the forties the Warner Studios were still competing with Disney to produce the best looking animation around. It is obvious a lot of thought and care went into the backgrounds and character animation. Yet they still could not compare to the competition. However when it came to gags the Merry Melodies were unbeatable. There are probably more jokes crammed into these 7 minutes than in any 7 Disney cartoons of the same era. Only the final scene involving a black and white minstrel show feels a bit awkward nowadays, for we like to forget that these totally incorrect programmes ever existed. In fact it was not until the late Sixties that this type of shows was banned, about the same time the Merry Melodies ended their run.

7 out of 10

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