Bonanza Bunny
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | September 5, 1959 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Robert C. Bruce |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Tom Ray George Grandpré Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder |
| Director(s) | Robert McKimson |
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Bonanza Bunny is the four hundred and fifty-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 5, 1959. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Robert McKimson.
In Dawson City, Yukon, Bugs Bunny has struck it rich when he has a bag of gold. However, Blacque Jacque Shellacque, the most roughest, toughest, muklukest Canuck in the Klondike, arrives and wants to take Bugs' bag of gold.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: Oh boy! The fun you can have with a bunch of old rocks and a can of yellow paint!
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Gold
- Playing cards
- 21 Card
- Stick of Dynamite
- Gunpowder Bag
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Robert Gribbroek
- Backgrounds: William Butler
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: September 5, 1959 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- From this point until the initial closure of the studio in 1964, all cartoons feature red/crimson colored rings, with the exceptions of the abstracted cartoons: Now Hear This, Bartholomew versus the Wheel, and Señorella and the Glass Huarache.
- This is the last Warner Bros. cartoon that Robert C. Bruce narrated before he moved into producing industrial films and television commercials.
- The gag where Blacque Jacque Shellacque opens fire on Bugs and then moves to reveal his own wanted poster is reused from an earlier cartoon called Drip-Along Daffy (1951) where Nasty Canasta also tries to shoot Daffy, then moving to show his own wanted poster.
- The scene afterwards of the patrons' reaction and dashing out was also modeled after this short.
- Two of the large sacks lined up against the back wall of the storeroom are labeled "Butler Spuds" and "Gibbroek Corn Meal", as inside-jokes to background artists William Butler and Robert Gribbroek respectively.
Legacy
- This cartoon marks the debut of Blacque Jacque Shellacque, who would make one more classic appearance in the 1962 Looney Tunes short, Wet Hare.
- Most of the scenes from this cartoon were used in the TV special, How Bugs Bunny Won the West.
- The dog barks heard from the husky pulling the sled Bugs rides on at the end of the cartoon are the same ones Mel Blanc would later use in voicing Dino the dinosaur in the 1960s Hanna-Barbera animated TV series, The Flintstones.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection on Blu-ray.
