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The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.
Kenny Gardner
- Dick
- (voice)
Jack Mercer
- Mr. Bumble
- (voice)
- …
Tedd Pierce
- C. Bagley Beetle
- (voice)
- (as Ted Pierce)
Carl Meyer
- Smack
- (voice)
Stan Freed
- Hoppity
- (voice)
Pauline Loth
- Honey
- (voice)
Pinto Colvig
- Mr. Creeper
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Margie Hines
- Mrs. Ladybug
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Buzz
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMuch of this movie's financial failure is blamed on the fact that it was released on 5 December 1941, only two days before Pearl Harbor was bombed.
- GoofsWhen the sprinkler is going off, a bug in a blue dress disappears right before the scene ends.
- Quotes
Hoppity: I told you we belong here in the garden. The lady human said so. You heard her.
Mr. Bumble: Gosh! And she knew my name.
- Alternate versionsReleased to TV as "Hoppity Goes to Town" by NTA, with copyright date and one minute missing. A hasty retitle patch-job somewhat ruins the beginning-credits sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Family Classics: Family Classics: Hoppity Goes to Town (1962)
- SoundtracksWe're the Couple in the Castle
(1941)
Music by Hoagy Carmichael
Lyric by Frank Loesser
Played in the score during the opening credits and often in the film
Sung by Kenny Gardner (uncredited) several times
Featured review
Mr. Bug and Fleischer
Leslie Carbaga's excellent book on the Fleishers tells the whole story of the Fleischer's big move of their entire animation unit to Florida, and their subsequent ejection by Paramount.
Mr. Bug Goes to Town didn't destroy the animation pioneers' credit with Paramount, although it's often told that way, and this was Paramount's favorite version of the story. According to Carbaga, the big studio, more than anything, wanted to get their mitts on the animation studio and ease the famously bickering brothers out of the picture altogether. Mr. Bug provided them the pretext to do just that. --The sad closing of a great quirky, innovative chapter in American animation.
I wanted to comment, also, that the film actually debuted December 4, 1941, not December 7. That may have been close enough to do the trick, anyway, in terms of national mood damaging the film's success. But another part of the legend of this troubled little film is that it was killed by having the bad luck to be in the theaters at the same time Dumbo (released October 23, 1941) was still doing very brisk holiday business. I haven't done the research into box office numbers, but I'd say that Dumbo's concurrent presence in theaters likely had an impact on Mr. Bug. Movie-going was at an all time high at this period, and successful films could go strong in theaters for months. -- Something unimaginable in these typically short-run, quick to-DVD days.
Mr. Bug Goes to Town didn't destroy the animation pioneers' credit with Paramount, although it's often told that way, and this was Paramount's favorite version of the story. According to Carbaga, the big studio, more than anything, wanted to get their mitts on the animation studio and ease the famously bickering brothers out of the picture altogether. Mr. Bug provided them the pretext to do just that. --The sad closing of a great quirky, innovative chapter in American animation.
I wanted to comment, also, that the film actually debuted December 4, 1941, not December 7. That may have been close enough to do the trick, anyway, in terms of national mood damaging the film's success. But another part of the legend of this troubled little film is that it was killed by having the bad luck to be in the theaters at the same time Dumbo (released October 23, 1941) was still doing very brisk holiday business. I haven't done the research into box office numbers, but I'd say that Dumbo's concurrent presence in theaters likely had an impact on Mr. Bug. Movie-going was at an all time high at this period, and successful films could go strong in theaters for months. -- Something unimaginable in these typically short-run, quick to-DVD days.
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- Jun 25, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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