{"id":51635,"date":"2026-02-11T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51635"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:24:23","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-horse-hare-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-horse-hare-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Horse Hare (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horse Hare<\/strong> (1960)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Michael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>In the Old West of 1886, Sergeant Bugs Bunny is tasked with being the sole guard on duty at Fort Lariat while the U.S. Cavalry leaves on a special mission. Once the Cavalry departs, Yosemite Sam \u2013 here known as \u201cRenegade Sam\u201d \u2013 leads a battalion of considerably incompetent Indian warriors in an attempt to overtake the fort. Needless to say, Bugs easily outwits these intruders while repeatedly humiliating Sam during the battle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first Bugs Bunny cartoon of the 1960s is yet another version of Sam trying and failing to penetrate a fortified edifice with Bugs as the only occupant. If that\u2019s not bad enough, director Friz Freleng and writer Michael Maltese repeat sights gags used with more effectiveness in earlier works. This may have been the cartoon to launch a new decade, but it started off with the same old shtick. It also didn\u2019t help that the animation looked cheap and cruddy \u2013 obviously, the budget for this cartoon was on the low side. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorse Hare\u201d doesn\u2019t receive the same level of television play as other cartoons in the series due to its stereotyping of American Indians. Most of that humor is benign (the warriors speak in broken English, Bugs substitutes TNT sticks for arrows), although one gag runs afoul of today\u2019s self-policing political correctness. As Bugs shoots down the marauding attackers, he sings \u201cTen Little Indians\u201d while making harsh marks of his victims. With one mark, he stops and erases part of it while quipping, \u201cUh oh, sorry, that one was a half-breed.\u201d As the stereotypical Indians might say: Ugh!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/ok.ru\/videoembed\/2657834043942?nochat=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse Hare (1960) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis Music by Milt Franklyn In the Old West of 1886, Sergeant Bugs Bunny is tasked with being the sole guard on duty at Fort Lariat while the U.S. Cavalry leaves on a special mission. Once the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3490,2077],"class_list":["post-51635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-friz-freleng","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635","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=51635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51637,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635\/revisions\/51637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}