Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

• 7.1 Animation
• 1982-11-19
• 74 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig / Yosemite Sam / Sylvester / Sylvester, Jr. / Speedy Gonzales / Tweety / Genie / Hassan / Big Bad Wolf / Beanstalk Giant / Elvis Gorilla / Stork (voice)) Bea Benaderet (Witch Hazel (voice)) Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd (voice)) June Foray (Granny / Mother Gorilla / Goldimouse (voice)) Shepard Menken (Old Storyteller (voice)) Lennie Weinrib (Prince Abba-Dabba (voice))

Director:

Chuck Jones Friz Freleng Robert McKimson

Writer:

John W. Dunn Friz Freleng David Detiege Warren Foster