{"id":51157,"date":"2025-12-31T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51157"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:42:32","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-apes-of-wrath-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-apes-of-wrath-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Apes of Wrath (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apes of Wrath <\/strong>(1959)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Warren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>A drunk stork tasked with delivering a baby gorilla to his impatient parents loses the simian infant during a jungle stop. Unwilling to admit his negligence, the stork knocks out Bugs Bunny, dresses him in a diaper and baby bonnet, and delivers him to the gorillas. The father gorilla (named Elvis, for some reason) is appalled by the sight of Bugs as his baby and grabs a mallet to pulverize the decidedly non-gorilla-looking infant. But the mother gorilla (who has no given name) is in love with her new baby and chastises her husband (with a rolling pin to the head) for being an unkind father. Bugs decides to take advantage of this unlikely situation and antagonize the ill-tempered gorilla father, until the stork delivers the real baby and Bugs is forced to escape from the revenge-hungry gorilla that he ruthlessly annoyed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cApes of Wrath\u201d is another example of director Friz Freleng recycling material, this time pilfering from the 1948 Bugs Bunny romp \u201cGorilla My Dreams\u201d plus the 1953 Sylvester cartoon \u201cA Mouse Divided.\u201d This retread lacks the wit and inventiveness of the original material, although some fun can be found with Bugs\u2019 obnoxious behavior backfiring on him on two specific occasions \u2013 when he demands that his gorilla father give him a drink of water and when he threatens to cut a rope serving as a bridge between two cliffs. Bugs also gets his comeuppance in the closing gag featuring a surprise appearance by Daffy Duck, but that moment isn\u2019t particularly funny.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this cartoon and \u201cGorilla My Dreams,\u201d the gorilla character was also a memorable menace in \u201cHurdy-Gurdy Hare\u201d (1950), which was among the best Bugs Bunny cartoons. It is a shame he wasn\u2019t used more often \u2013 but, then again, how many gorilla-themed cartoons could Bugs have? And while the angry gorilla character had a more docile wife in \u201cGorilla My Dreams,\u201d the aggressive mate in \u201cApes of Wrath\u201d (voiced by an unbilled June Foray) added a funnier dimension to the proceedings as a humorless spouse who asserts her dominance with a few well-placed knocks of a rolling pin to her belligerent spouse\u2019s noggin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apes of Wrath (1959) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy Music by Milt Franklyn A drunk stork tasked with delivering a baby gorilla to his impatient parents loses the simian infant during a jungle stop. 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