High Diving Hare
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Bugs is barker for a carnival sideshow. When the high diver, Fearless Freep, doesn't show up, his biggest fan Yosemite Sam makes Bugs take his place. Classic high diving gags abound as Sam keeps falling to his doom.
Characters
Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Isadore Freleng (as I. Freleng)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Tedd Pierce
Animation
- Animator
- Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Pete Burness
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Telegram Boy)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Crew
- Layouts
- Hawley Pratt
- Backgrounds
- Paul Julian
Production notes
Yosemite Sam pounds on the door and says "Open that door! Open up that door!" and then turns to the audience and adds, "You notice I didn't say Richard." This is a period joke that references a popular 1947 song "Open the Door, Richard".
The Blue Ribbon release featured blue rings. This release also features the original title cards and includes credits.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
The Blue Ribbon release featured blue rings. This release also features the original title cards and includes credits.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Pictures
Reviews
High Diving Hare
No reviews for what could be the greatest Yosemite Sam cartoon ever made?! Well, it's getting one now.
Awesome film. Bugs' and Sam's chemistry is perfect. Like Tracy and Hepburn (with more head injuries).
High Diving Hare
Well-nigh Freleng's greatest Bugs cartoon, as well as the greatest Sam cartoon. Bugs has to do little or nothing to foil Sam once he's atop the high-dive...but watch this film on a big theatre screen sometime. The perspective shots, when Sam forces the rabbit up the latter, really make you feel Bugs' terror, so that his victory is all the more deserved for the rest of the film and you can laugh to your heart's content.
It's films like this, too, that remind one of Freleng's stature as the IMPRESARIO of animation directors...the vaudville setting calls to mind "Show Biz Bugs," "Stage Door Cartoon," and "Hare-Do" and Freleng's whole desire to show his audience a good time.