{"id":52058,"date":"2026-03-11T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=52058"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:21:54","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-lighter-than-hare-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/11\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-lighter-than-hare-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Lighter Than Hare (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lighter Than Hare <\/strong>(1960)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>From a human resources perspective, one must admire Yosemite Sam\u2019s occupational versatility. Originally conceived as a desperado, he later worked as a pirate ship captain, a prison guard, a Hessian mercenary, a sheik, a medieval knight, and in \u201cLighter Than Hare\u201d he is an extraterrestrial invader. Nice work if you can get it, eh?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cLighter Than Hare,\u201d an alien invasion craft captained by \u201cYosemite Sam of Outer Space\u201d lands outside of a City Dump where Bugs Bunny is living. Bugs taps into the scrap materials around him for a series of inventions that come in handy when Sam\u2019s robot soldiers try to apprehend the wily Earth creature.<\/p>\n<p>Typical of these late-stage Bugs Bunny cartoons, the carrot-chomping hero too easily dispatches his enemies. Director Friz Freleng did double-duty as screenwriter, and to his credit he came up with some genuinely funny gags, including Bugs mistaking an alien robot for a trash can \u2013 the degraded metallic being coughs up garbage \u2013 and Bugs using his ears as helicopter blades to take him skyward. There is also a funny reference to the radio show version of \u201cAmos \u2018n\u2019 Andy\u201d that was still being broadcast in 1960, long after radio mostly ceased to be a national entertainment medium.<\/p>\n<p>A special shout-out goes to Milt Franklyn, whose original score mixes typical cartoon music with the theremin-style accompaniment one associates with science-fiction of that era. Franklyn was mostly overshadowed by his predecessor Carl Stalling as the music master of the Warner Bros. cartoons, but in \u201cLighter Than Hare\u201d he creates one of his most original and invigorating compositions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/ok.ru\/videoembed\/1947139312171?nochat=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lighter Than Hare (1960) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Friz Freleng Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross Music by Milt Franklyn From a human resources perspective, one must admire Yosemite Sam\u2019s occupational versatility. Originally conceived as a desperado, he later worked as a pirate ship captain, a prison guard, a Hessian mercenary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3490,1175,2077],"class_list":["post-52058","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-warner-bros","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058","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=52058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52061,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions\/52061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}