{"id":47170,"date":"2025-04-09T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=47170"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:55:44","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-captain-hareblower-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/09\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-captain-hareblower-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Captain Hareblower (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Captain Hareblower <\/strong>(1954)<br \/>\nDirected by\tFriz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by\tWarren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by\tManuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl W. Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Yosemite Sam returns to 18th century oceanic miscreancy, this time as Pirate Sam with a schooner that he sails all by himself. Just the thought of encountering him creates panic on well-manned ship \u2013 the crew abandons their vessel when Sam approaches, leaving only Bugs Bunny, a stowaway in a carrot crate who never heard of Pirate Sam and has no fear of what he can create. Sam bellows for Bugs to surrender, reminding him that \u201cI\u2019ve got you outnumbered one to one.\u201d However, Sam quickly discovers his new long-eared foe is no pushover.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Friz Freleng&#8217;s \u201cCaptain Hareblower\u201d is too much of a replay of his 1948 \u201cBuccaneer Bunny,\u201d with recycled gags including Sam repeatedly getting shot in the face by cannonballs, failing to extract Bugs from a crow\u2019s nest, and having his ship blown to &#8220;smithereenies&#8221; when Bugs throws a match into a lower deck powder room. <\/p>\n<p>But whereas \u201cBuccaneer Bunny\u201d races at rapid speed with ingenious gags \u2013 most notably the obnoxious parrot whose snitching is punished by Bugs with an oversized dynamite stick \u2013 \u201cCaptain Hareblower\u201d moves at a more leisurely pace with a nonchalant Bugs constantly outwitting his frustrated foe.<\/p>\n<p>Still, watching Sam get shot at point blank range with a cannon is always funny, no matter how many times the gag is repeated, especially when he throws a mini-tantrum while in an incinerated state over being outsmarted once again. And to its credit, \u201cCaptain Hareblower\u201d has a pair of wonderfully ingenious gags \u2013 one involves Sam getting swallowed by a giant fish when he is trying to swim undetected beneath the waves to deliver a bomb to Bugs\u2019 ship, and the film\u2019s closing gag involving a \u201cpowder room\u201d with a mirrored vanity desk featuring a pot of talcum powder. If you\u2019ve not seen the cartoon, I won\u2019t spoil the surprises in each scene because they are truly that inventively funny. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Hareblower (1954) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis Music by Carl W. Stalling Yosemite Sam returns to 18th century oceanic miscreancy, this time as Pirate Sam with a schooner that he sails all by himself. Just the thought of encountering him creates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,778,2077],"class_list":["post-47170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-pirates","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170","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=47170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47172,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170\/revisions\/47172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}