Rushing Roulette
- Studio
- DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Wile E. uses a camera, a boulder, a spring, a helicopter and other devices.
Characters
Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Robert McKimson
Producing
- Producer
- David H. DePatie, Isadore Freleng (as Friz Freleng)
Writing
- Writer
- David Detiege
Animation
- Animator
- Bob Matz, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Norm McCabe, Don Williams
Music
- Music
- Bill Lava
Editing
- Editor
- Lee Gunther
Crew
- Layouts
- Dick Ung
- Backgrounds
- Tom O'Laughlin
Production notes
This was one of a number Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons to appear musical. The musicals included Hip Hip-Hurry!, Rushing Roulette, Sugar and Spies, and Hook, Line and Stinker.
Reviews
Rushing Roulette
Assumedly made before the budget cutbacks really took effect, this cartoon looks alright, is suitably fast-paced, and contains about the 429th variation on the Freleng 'touch-this-key-on-the-piano-BOOM!' gag. Not a classic, but better than even some of Jones's Roadrunner cartoons. The music by Bill Lava is at its usual high standard. However, 11 subsequent Larriva cartoons adapted this same introduction tune. And I still can't get it out of my head now...
Rushing Roulette
Although McKimson's roadrunners were much better than Larriva's, I still think Chuck Jones should have been the soul director of every roadrunner cartoon. It's a sacrelige for anyone else to do it.