The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979)

Directors:

Chuck Jones
Phil Monroe

Writers:

Michael Maltese (written by) and
Chuck Jones (written by)
(more)

Release Date:

30 September 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Music | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

It's classic encounters of the funniest kind!

Plot:

Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.

Plot Keywords:

Road Runner | Road Runner The Character | Reference To Daffy Duck | Cartoon Rabbit | Reference To Marvin The Martian

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Mel Blanc	...	Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig / Marvin the Martian / Wile E. Coyote / Pepe le Pew / Dr. I.Q. High / Hassan (voice) (also archive footage)
Arthur Q. Bryan	...	Elmer Fudd (voice) (archive footage)
Paul Julian	...	Road Runner (archive sound)
Nicolai Shutorov	...	Giovanni Jones (singing voice) (archive footage)

Directed by
Chuck Jones		(also archive footage)
Phil Monroe		("Bugs at Home" segments)

Writing credits
Michael Maltese		(written by) and
Chuck Jones		(written by)
John W. Dunn		uncredited

Produced by
Chuck Jones	....	producer

Original Music by
Dean Elliott		(segments "Bugs at Home")
Milt Franklyn		(archive footage)
William Lava		(archive footage)
John Seely		(archive footage)
Carl W. Stalling		(archive footage)

Film Editing by
Treg Brown

Production Design by
Ray Aragon		(segment "Bugs at Home")
Maurice Noble

Production Management
Mary Roscoe	....	production manager (segments "Bugs at Home")

Art Department
Don Foster	....	graphics

Visual Effects by
A.C. Gamer	....	effects animator (uncredited)
Harry Love	....	effects animator (uncredited)

Animation Department
Peter Alvarado	....	background artist
Irv Anderson	....	animator (segment "Bugs at Home")
Bob Bransford	....	animator
Keith Darling	....	animator
Philip DeGuard	....	background artist (as Phil Deguard)
Philip DeGuard	....	layout artist
Don Foster	....	animator
Robert Gribbroek	....	background artist (as Bob Gribbroek)
Robert Gribbroek	....	layout artist
Ken Harris	....	animator
Abe Levitow	....	animator
Phil Monroe	....	animator
Maurice Noble	....	layout artist
Manuel Perez	....	animator (segment "Bugs at Home") (as Manny Perez)
Tom Ray	....	animator
Virgil Ross	....	animator (segment "Bugs at Home")
Richard H. Thomas	....	background artist
Richard Thompson	....	animator (as Dick Thompson)
Lloyd Vaughan	....	animator
Ben Washam	....	animator
Irv Wyner	....	background artist ("Bugs at Home" segements)

Music Department
Milt Franklyn	....	orchestrator (archive footage) (uncredited)

Other crew
Marian Dern	....	assistant to producer: "Bugs at Home" segments

Thanks
Dorothy Jones	....	dedicatee

Production Companies

• Warner Bros

Distributors

• Warner Bros (1979) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1982) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Warner Home Video (1991) (Germany) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:S | Sweden:7 | USA:G | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | UK:U | Portugal:M/6 | West Germany:6

Company:

Warner Bros

Trivia:

Bugs's house, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall, is modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: About 5 minutes into the movie as Bugs relates the beginning of man and he points out our fourth rate star, the Sun, you can see "Start 56+0 Filter 16 Yellow" written in the middle of the Sun.

Quotes:

Bugs Bunny:[sees Giovanni Jones staring at him] Eh, what's up, Doc?
[Giovanni Jones sandwiches him with the harp, then leaves]
Bugs Bunny:Hmm, also a Rabbit-Hater. Oh, well.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

Alouette

an interesting compilation

In "The Great American Chase", Bugs Bunny traipses through his house and tells us the story of chases. To make his point, he shows us several classic cartoons (some starring him) dealing with situations involving hot pursuits. Well, not all of them have chases; some are there just for fun. Bugs remembers how Chuck Jones sent him into space, where he met Marvin the Martian; then how Daffy Duck and Porky Pig tried to colonize Planet X and had to contend with Marvin the Martian; how Daffy (as Robin Hood) had a very hard time recruiting Porky (as Friar Tuck); how Daffy's scenery frustratingly changed every few minutes; how he, Bugs, ended up in a bullfight; how he and Daffy dug into Ali Baba's cave; how he and Elmer Fudd acted out "The Ride of the Valkyries"; how Wile E. Coyote tried and failed to eat him; and finally, how Wile E. decided to try something a little more his size, by which we mean the Road Runner. The Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner chase is really the best part of the movie. Overall, it's a pretty neat compilation of classic cartoons, and I liked the scene where Bugs remembers his "fathers" (Mel Blanc, Chuck Jones, etc.).