Captain Hareblower
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| Captain Hareblower | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | January 16, 1954 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Captain Hareblower is the three hundred and nineth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 16, 1954. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
It's an all-out high-seas battle between Bugs Bunny and Pirate Sam when he attacks a trading sail ship and demands that it surrenders.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: I don't know what he's so excited about. Talcum powder doesn't explode. Or I could be wrong ya know...
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- Ocean
Objects
- Crate of carrots
- Matches
- Talcum powder
Vehicles
- Pirate Sam's ship
- Trading ship
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Crew credits
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 16, 1954 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on the C.S. Forester character, Captain Horatio Hornblower.
- Bugs used the same gag that he used on Sea-Goin' Sam in Buccaneer Bunny: throwing a lit match into Sam's powder room to blow up his ship, with the ship blowing up after Sam hesitates to retrieve the match.
- This is one of the few Bugs Bunny shorts to not feature his mugshot in the intro, most likely because the new mugshot for him had yet to be made for the smaller circa-1954 color rings intro. It would make its debut in the next Bugs short, Bugs and Thugs.
- This is the first cartoon to be released after the Warner animation studio reopened on January 4, 1954, after a brief seven-month shutdown in 1953 during the height of the 3D film craze.
- This is the only cartoon where both Bugs and Sam lose in the end.
Legacy
- The high-seas battle was reused in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island, marking one of the scantest scene times for Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes film.
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 Disc.
