Azure
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One of the great Bugs Bunny Cartoons, folks.
I love this one as well! Thanks for posting the video. One of my favorite scenes in that cartoon is when Bugs disguises himself and visits Cecil the Turtle's house (with a typewriter hidden in his beard). I recently found out that Bugs was impersonating the "Old Timer" from the Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, who had the famous catchphrase, "That ain't the way I heard it, Johnny."
I also like the cartoon with the original race between Bugs and Cecil. I think it's called "Tortoise Beats Hare". Bugs watches some scenes from that one in the beginning of the cartoon you posted.
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Thanks, Azure. Rabbit Fire is one of the truly great Looney Tunes cartoons, the first time, I believe, in which Bugs and Daffy were co-starred, with, as you say, Mel Blanc's wonderful voice contributions combined with great writing and director Chuck Jones's emphasis upon characterizations for much of the humour.
And any cartoon in which we get to hear Daffy's great signature proclamation - "You'reee des-pik-a-bull," gets my vote as great comedy. I swear that Mel gleefully puts an extra little bit of extra slobber into those deliveries, as well.
He probably did. LOL I'm sure that they had to wipe the microphone down really well afterward.
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Rebecca
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Six Cylinder Love
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They Drive by Night
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Is it Road House (1948)?
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The Moonlighter
Next: a general store
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Edgar Bergen...appeared without Charlie McCarthy in I REMEMBER MAMA.
Did Charlie McCarthy ever appear without Edgar Bergen?
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Burns & Allen -- Gracie Allen appeared in The Gracie Allen Murder Case and Mr. and Mrs. North without George Burns. I don't think that George appeared in a movie without Gracie until after she died in 1964. Starting in 1975, he made several more movies (like The Sunshine Boys).
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Edmund Gwenn in Foreign Correspondant ?
Yes, that's correct. I adore Edmund Gwenn and I got a kick out of seeing him play a bad guy in this movie. LOL
Your turn, Lavender.
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I'm pretty sure this is Captains Courageous - one of my favorites.
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Thanks, Shutoo.
Next: an assassin poses as a bodyguard
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Another Looney Tunes fan here!
Mel Blanc truly was an amazing voice actor. I remember watching a documentary about Mel Blanc where someone commented on how Blanc made difficult vocal tasks seem easy. One of the difficult things he was able to do was to make one of his characters imitate another character. He does this in a scene in "Rabbit Fire" when Bugs and Daffy imitate each other.
Here's a clip of that scene.
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I think The Letter counts, doesn't it?
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7.) John Williams composed the music for this film. He won the Oscar for Best Score.
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7.) She made her film debut in the 1937 film Lancashire Luck.
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Glenn Ford in The Gazebo!
Love this movie
You got it! Your turn, GregoryPeckfan.
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Five Star Final
Next: washing dishes
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Hint: The man has also put tarp down on the floor near the front door.
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The Roaring Twenties
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Meet John Doe
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Saturday's Children
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Midnight Manhunt
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Psycho
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Yes, he was. One of my favorite Bob Clampett-directed WB cartoons is "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". I can't post the whole video, so I'll tell the story with a mix of pictures and video clips.
After reading his Dick Tracy comic book, Donald Duck accidentally knocks himself out. He dreams that he is "Duck Twacy", the famous detective.
After receiving several phone calls about stolen piggy banks, Daffy discovers that his own piggy bank has been stolen.
He decides to take action right away. While he's out looking for clues, he has a run-in with Sherlock Holmes.
"Scram, Sherlock. I'm workin' this side of the street!"
He hops on a streetcar (driven by Porky Pig) that takes him directly to the gangster's no-so-secret hideout.
When he goes into the hideout, he encounters some very interesting-looking gangsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ly35NQfZw8
After defeating the bad guys, Daffy finds all the stolen piggy banks.
He is thrilled when he finally finds his own piggy bank.
He jubilantly kisses his piggy bank over and over until.......
......he wakes up and realizes that he is actually kissing a real pig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cN9t2BW8xs
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