{"id":52322,"date":"2026-04-01T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=52322"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:39:02","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-prince-violent-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-prince-violent-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Prince Violent (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prince Violent<\/strong> (1961)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt<br \/>\nStory by Dave Detiege<br \/>\nAnimation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Art Davis, Bob Matz<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn <\/p>\n<p>The Viking Sam the Terrible makes a one-man invasion of a Dark Ages countryside, causing its inhabitants to flee for safety within a castle. Bugs Bunny, who views the Nordic invader as &#8220;broken loose electric can opener,&#8221; takes it upon himself to repel Sam, who makes repeated but disastrously futile efforts to gain access the castle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ugh, here we go again \u2013 yet another cartoon with Yosemite Sam in an unlikely costume trying and failing to breach a fortified structure where Bugs Bunny is in control. Instead of an uncooperative camel (as in \u201cSahara Hare\u201d) or a bumbling dragon (as in \u201cKnighty Knight Bugs\u201d), Sam is uneasily assisted by an easily displeased pink elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Friz Freleng shared directing credit with longtime animator Hawley Pratt, which proves that two directors are not better than one. Dave Detiege\u2019s script recycles old Looney Tunes gags with no great originality and the visual style of the short is flat and boring.<\/p>\n<p>The only notable aspect to \u201cPrince Violent\u201d was the decision by Warner Bros. to change its title to \u201cPrince Varmint\u201d for television broadcasts. Strangely, the word \u201cviolent\u201d was inappropriate for the kiddie audience but the physical mayhem on the screen was acceptable. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLx4y9OpxpQ?si=gZRZvnal_jyQzsWu\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Violent (1961) Directed by Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt Story by Dave Detiege Animation by Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Art Davis, Bob Matz Music by Milt Franklyn The Viking Sam the Terrible makes a one-man invasion of a Dark Ages countryside, causing its inhabitants to flee for safety within a castle. Bugs Bunny, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,3490,1175,2077],"class_list":["post-52322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-friz-freleng","tag-warner-bros","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52322","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=52322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52326,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52322\/revisions\/52326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}