A young couple picks up a demonic hitchhiker in the familiar, but tight & effective, horror flick from Andre Ovredal.
The Bootleg Files: Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble in Songs from Mary Poppins
BOOTLEG FILES 938: “Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble in Songs from Mary Poppins” (1965 album mashing up the Disney and Hanna-Barbera classics).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None – but, then again, it is a spoken-word recording.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Clearing the rights to this would be nearly impossible.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: It would be fun as a special feature on a Flintstones-related DVD, but that is unlikely.
This week’s entry is not about a film or television production, but instead focuses on a bootleg video that shares a rare example of cross-pollination between two rival animation studios – in this case, Hanna-Barbera characters promoting films made by the Walt Disney Company in a long-playing album.
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Short Film For You [Ani-May 2026]
I Love Boosters [2026] [SIFF2026]
Three boosters find themselves in the middle of an anti-capitalist sci-fi caper in Boots Riley’s hilarious, raucous, and over-the-top satire, I Love Boosters. Presented as the opening selection at the Seattle International Film Festival, it now enters wide release on May 22nd.
Short Film For You [Ani-May 2026]
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu [2026]
A bounty hunter and his young apprentice search for an Imperial warlord and become embroiled in Hutt schemes in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Jon Favreau’s very fun but flawed big-screen version of the hit Disney+ show.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Unmentionables (1963)
The Unmentionables (1963)
Directed by Friz Freleng
Story by John Dunn
Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Bob Matz, Art Leonardi, Lee Halpern
Music by Bill Lava
“The Unmentionables” is a spoof of the then-popular television series “The Untouchables,” with Bugs Bunny as the federal agent Elegant Mess (a riff on the series’ crime fighter Elliot Ness). He is tasked with bringing in the notorious underworld figures Rocky and Mugsy, but he does his job a little too well. Bugs handcuffs the miscreants to his wrists and marches them to justice, but winds up serving their prison sentence with them because he lost the handcuff keys.
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