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5 January 1935 (USA)
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Plot:
Max Hare and Toby Tortoise are having a foot race. Max has much more style, and is generally cocky. He pauses for a short nap...
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Won Oscar.
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The Tortoise and the Hare was another excellent Disney Silly Symphony
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Cast
 | Eddie Holden | ... | Toby Tortoise (voice) |
| Ned Norton | ... | Max Hare (voice) |
Directed by | |||
| Wilfred Jackson | (uncredited) | ||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Aesop | fable (uncredited) | |
| Larry Clemmons | story (uncredited) | |
Produced by | |||
| Walt Disney | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Frank Churchill | (uncredited) | ||
Animation Department | |||
| Larry Clemmons | .... | animator (uncredited) | |
| Dick Huemer | .... | animator (uncredited) | |
| Ward Kimball | .... | animator (uncredited) | |
| Eric Larson | .... | assistant animator (uncredited) | |
| Hamilton Luske | .... | animator (uncredited) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- United Artists (1934) (USA) (theatrical)
- Walt Disney Home Video (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
- Walt Disney Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD)
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9 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Many Warner Bros. animators have admitted that Max Hare is the inspiration for Bugs Bunny.See more »
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Toby Tortoise:Well - Heh, heh, heh - May the best man - heh - win.
Max Hare:Thanks, I will. but I won't beat ya too bad. Shake.
[Toby goes to shake Max's hand, but he pulls it away]
Max Hare:Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
Toby Tortoise:Heh-heh-heh-heh. That's a funny joke, but - Heh-heh - you caught me fair and square.
Max Hare:No hard feelings?
Toby Tortoise:Uh-uh.
Max Hare:Put 'er there.
[Again Max pulls away his hand just as Toby stretches out his]
Max Hare:Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
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Max Hare:Thanks, I will. but I won't beat ya too bad. Shake.
[Toby goes to shake Max's hand, but he pulls it away]
Max Hare:Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
Toby Tortoise:Heh-heh-heh-heh. That's a funny joke, but - Heh-heh - you caught me fair and square.
Max Hare:No hard feelings?
Toby Tortoise:Uh-uh.
Max Hare:Put 'er there.
[Again Max pulls away his hand just as Toby stretches out his]
Max Hare:Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha!
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Just watched this Oscar-winning animated short on YouTube. Based on the classic Aesop Fable, the obnoxious hare challenges the shy tortoise to a relay race. If you're familiar with the tale, you know how it goes but this being animated, you get the hare causing some wind to blow as well as him stopping to chat up some feminine admirer fans while the tortoise keeps going. There are some amusing gags but nothing hilarious. Still, this was a pretty exciting cartoon from Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies and it spawned a sequel-Toby Tortoise Returns-that I did think was hilarious. Oh, and it's easy to see why Frank Tashlin thought the hare-eventually called Max in the sequel-was the inspiration for Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny. So for all that, I highly recommend The Tortoise and the Hare. P.S. I first saw some of these scenes when The Disney Channel presented on their "DTV" program their version of The Doobie Brothers' "It Keeps You Running" with this as well as other Disney cartoon scenes for the music video.