Bugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him.Bugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him.Bugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him.
- Director
- Writer
- Star
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIncluded on the Blu-ray and DVD releases of The Maltese Falcon (1941).
- Alternate versionsReissued in 1942 with a Blue Ribbon title card replacing the original title sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
- SoundtracksBy the Waters of Minnetonka: an Indian Love Song
(1914) (uncredited)
Music by Thurlow Lieurance
Lyrics by J.M. Cavanass
Played during the opening scene
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Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt is the ninth Oscar-nominated cartoon for 1941 I'm reviewing here
This is the ninth Oscar-nominated cartoon for 1941 I'm reviewing on this site, having previously done the same for George Pal's Rhythm in the Ranks, Friz Freleng's Rhapsody in Rivets, Walter Lantz' Boogie Woogie Boy of Company B, Rudolf Ising's The Rookie Bear, Hanna-Barbera's The Night Before Christmas, Jack King's Truant Officer Donald, Dave Fleischer's Superman, and Paul Fennell's How War Came. In this one Bugs Bunny is reading a poem about Indian (or Native American) Hiawatha rowing his boat searching for a forest rabbit before realizing he's such a creature and Hiawatha finds him! In other words, it's another version of Elmer Fudd. Many funny gags abound courtesy of writer Michael Maltese with mostly excellent direction (or "supervision" as the credit was at the time) from Friz Freleng who was credited as I. (for Isadore) Freleng during this period. This was his first Bugs cartoon. It was also the second one nominated for the Academy Award of which the first was Bugs' debut in A Wild Hare. I'm not sure it was that good but hey, it's entertaining enough. Only one more nominated cartoon to go and it's the one that won...
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- La cacería de conejos de Hiawatha
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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