{"id":46243,"date":"2025-02-05T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46243"},"modified":"2025-02-01T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:10:43","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-hare-lift-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/05\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-hare-lift-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Hare Lift (1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hare Lift<\/strong> (1952)<br \/>\nDirected by\tFriz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by\tWarren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by\tKen Champin, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl W. Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Bank robber Yosemite Sam makes a gun-toting withdrawal from the Last National Bank, warning those inside the bank to \u201ckeep a-reachin&#8217; for the ceilin&#8217; till ya&#8217; reach it!\u201d But the sound of approaching police sirens forces him to flee and drives to the airport where the world\u2019s largest airplane has arrived for public exhibition. Bugs Bunny is alone in the airplane, sitting in the cockpit while pretending he\u2019s a pilot. Sam mistakes him for the real pilot and forces Bugs to take off \u2013 even though Bugs knows nothing about flying. Nonetheless, Bugs starts the airplane and begins to drive it down a main street before abruptly taking it on a wild ride up to the moon and then back in a dizzying plummet to Earth.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHare Lift\u201d has a few cute sight gags when it begins \u2013 Sam\u2019s ill-gotten gains are stuffed in a bag with a dollar sign that\u2019s roughly the same as his body, and upon exiting the bank he wipes away the asset total advertised on the front window from \u201c4,562,321.08\u201d down to \u201c.08.\u201d Later in the cartoon, a button marked \u201cRobot Pilot\u201d unleashes a mechanical robot from a closet that quickly realizes the aircraft is doomed and puts on a parachute before jumping out into the skies.<\/p>\n<p>But once \u201cHare Lift\u201d gets off the ground, it plays like a low energy retread of the classic \u201cFalling Hare\u201d with an insouciant Bugs taking the role of the mischievous gremlin in the 1943 short while Sam becomes the beleaguered and battered passenger who \u2013 like Bugs nine years earlier \u2013 twice falls out of the airplane while it is in flight. But \u201cHare Lift\u201d lacks the demented feral energy of \u201cFalling Hare\u201d and its sense of mayhem deflates before Bugs hits the brakes \u2013 literally and figuratively \u2013 on the cartoon\u2019s action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hare Lift (1952) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Ken Champin, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross Music by Carl W. Stalling Bank robber Yosemite Sam makes a gun-toting withdrawal from the Last National Bank, warning those inside the bank to \u201ckeep a-reachin&#8217; for the ceilin&#8217; till ya&#8217; reach it!\u201d But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,2077],"class_list":["post-46243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46246,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46243\/revisions\/46246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}