{"id":49242,"date":"2025-08-20T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=49242"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:08:39","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-barbary-coast-bunny-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/20\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-barbary-coast-bunny-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbary-Coast Bunny <\/strong>(1956)<br \/>\nDirected by\tChuck Jones<br \/>\nStory by\tTedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by\tAbe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny is burrowing underground to visit his cousin Herman in San Francisco when he bangs head-first into a giant gold nugget. The swindler Nasty Canasta tricks Bugs into believing he has a depository bank for storing the gold, and Bugs entrusts his new fortune with the miscreant. After Nasty violently waylays Bugs, the angry rabbit vows revenge. Six months later, he tracks down Nasty to the San Francisco casino that he built with Bugs\u2019 gold. Bugs disguises himself as a na\u00efve rural visitor, but this seemingly innocent fa\u00e7ade enables him to casually drain the casino of its money by winning Nasty\u2019s rigged games.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarbary-Coast Bunny\u201d is notable for the reinvention of Nasty Canasta from a physically imposing and near-silent cowboy villain in a pair of Daffy Duck cartoons into a slovenly, cigar-chomping character with a silly voice. Clearly, that earlier character \u2013 whose stoic and machismo menace brilliantly played off Daffy\u2019s frantic neuroticism \u2013 would not work with Bugs.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of amusing moments when Bugs\u2019 faux-rube mistakes a slot machine for a \u201ctelly-o-phone\u201d and later when he spins the cylinder of Nasty\u2019s revolver and generates a gold coin shower from the weapon. But sadly, the cartoon falls flat. Tedd Pierce\u2019s screenplay is annoyingly verbose, and even Bugs\u2019 trademark \u201cOf course you realize this means war\u201d is stretched out to a wordier (but not funnier) \u201cYou realize this is not going to go unchallenged.\u201d Even worse, the casino action is lethargic, with Nasty mostly sitting around while trying (and failing) to rip off Bugs. Thus, the cartoon degenerates into being all talk and nearly no significant motion.<\/p>\n<p>While an unbilled Daws Butler offers a nicely silly voice for Nasty, the reconfigured character was ultimately a dull adversary that never turned up again in the Golden Age cartoons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956) Directed by Chuck Jones Story by Tedd Pierce Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris Music by Carl Stalling Bugs Bunny is burrowing underground to visit his cousin Herman in San Francisco when he bangs head-first into a giant gold nugget. The swindler Nasty Canasta tricks Bugs into believing he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":49243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,1317,3807],"class_list":["post-49242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-chuck-jones","tag-nasty-canasta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242","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=49242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49247,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242\/revisions\/49247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}