If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.
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Mel Blanc | Bugs Bunny |
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Shepard Menken | Old Storyteller |
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Lennie Weinrib | Prince Abadaba |
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Bea Benaderet | Witch Hazel |
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June Foray | Granny |
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Tom Holland | Slowpoke Rodriguez |
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Arthur Q. Bryan | Elmer Fudd |
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William Roberts | Michigan J. Frog |
Director | Friz Freleng |
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Charles M. Jones |
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Robert McKimson |
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Maurice Noble |
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Hawley Pratt |
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Writer | John W. Dunn, David Detiege, Friz Freleng, Warren Foster, Charles M. Jones, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce | |
Producer | Friz Freleng | |
Musician | Milt Franklyn, William Lava, Carl W. Stalling, Robert J. Walsh |