Hare Trigger
| Hare Trigger | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | May 5, 1945 |
| Run time | 7:55 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation | Manuel Prerez Ken Champin Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Hare Trigger, is the two hundred and fifty-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on May 5, 1945. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
A masked robber by the name of Yosemite Sam tries steal a train, which happens to be the same one Bugs Bunny is riding on.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: Eh... What's up, Doc?
Yosemite: What's up? Why, ya ornery, fur-bearin' critter! This here's one of them thar train robbery hold-ups.
Bugs: Oh, yeah? Well, you must be Jesse James.
Yosemite: Jesse James? Ho, ho, ho! Phooey! Why, everybody knows me. I'm Yosemite Sam! The meanest, toughest, rip-roaring-est, Edward Everett Horton-est hombre what ever packed a six-shooter! (fires shots in the air) That's who I am!
Yosemite: I'm a-givin' you one second to draw a gun!
Bugs: (draws an illustration of a gun) How's dis, Chunky?
Yosemite: Say, that's a right small picture ya got there, partner! Y'know, I'm fair to meddlin' with a pencil myself.
Yosemite: The varmint got me! Imma headin'... fer the last... round-up...
Narrator: Is this the end of Bugs Bunny? --will our hero be dashed to bits on the jagged pits below?
Bugs: Is he to be doomed to utter destruction? Will he be rendered non-compos mentis? (to audience) Eh, he don't know me very well, now, do he?
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Locations
Objects
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
It is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon to use the shortened 1945-55 rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along."
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: May 5, 1945 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a play on "hair trigger", referring to any weapon or other device with a sensitive trigger.
- This is the first Bugs Bunny cartoon to begin with the "Bugs Bunny in" opening.
Errors
Legacy
- Yosemite Sam would go on to become one of Bugs Bunny's most well-known rivals, after Elmer Fudd.
Critical reception
Home availability
- In the United States:
