Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.
Direction
Freleng's framing device is meta before meta was cool
Editing
Seamless weaving of 1940s-60s classics into coherent narrative
Acting
Mel Blanc's vocal marathon — 13+ characters, zero breaths taken
Director
Friz Freleng
Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny / King Arthur / Sir Osis of Liver / Sir Loin of Beef / Yosemite Sam / Gerry the Idgit Dragon / Daffy Duck / Sylvester / Tweety Pie / Porky Pig / Speedy Gonzales / Treasury Director / Rocky / Mugsy / Judge / Clancy / O'Hara / Cops / Pepe Le Pew / Clarence (B.A. Bird) (voice)
June Foray
Granny (voice)
Bea Benaderet
Granny (voice)
Stan Freberg
The Singing Narrator / Big Bad Wolf / Three Little Pigs (voice)
Frank Nelson
Satan (voice)
Frank Welker
Reporter Dog / Lawyer (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 'new' 1981 film contains zero original animation — every frame was recycled from Freleng's 1948-1963 shorts, making it perhaps the most expensive clip show ever theatrical.
Freleng literally built a movie around his own Oscar win for 'Knighty Knight Bugs' (1958), creating cinema's most elaborate acceptance speech.
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