Hare-abian Nights
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | February 28, 1959 |
| Run time | 6:30 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Ben Washam Ken Harris Arthur Davis (uncredited) |
| Director(s) | Ken Harris |
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Hare-abian Nights is the four hundred and forty-fourth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 28, 1959. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Ken Harris.
Bugs Bunny winds up in an Arabian palace and is forced to the sultan as many stories as he possibly can.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: Ehhh, not a bad act. But, uh... Don't call us, we'll call you.... (to audience) And I can think of a few things I'd like to call 'em.
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- Middle East
- Arabian palace
- Middle East
Objects
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 28, 1959 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on Arabian Nights, an English title given to One Thousand and One Nights.
- This short reuses clips from previous Bugs Bunny cartoons:
- This is one of two shorts in the golden age of American animation starring Yosemite Sam not to be directed by Friz Freleng, although sequences from a Freleng cartoon are used in this short; the other is the 1964 Looney Tunes short, Dumb Patrol, which was instead directed by Gerry Chiniquy of the Friz Freleng unit.
- It is the only Yosemite Sam cartoon from the classic era to have no involvement from the Friz Freleng unit, and the only Sam cartoon from that era which the Chuck Jones team worked on. Jones himself never directed any Yosemite Sam cartoons until the Looney Tunes short, From Hare to Eternity (1996), which was the last Warner Bros. cartoon he directed in his lifetime.
Everlasting Influence
- The plot of this short would be reused and expanded for the movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.
Home availability
- In the United States:
