The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie



The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Movie (originally entitled "The Great American Chase") is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated wraparound, hosted by Bugs Bunny. These cartoons, which also feature Elmer J. Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat, and Marvin The Martian, include (in order):
 * Hare-Way to the Stars
 * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
 * Robin Hood Daffy
 * Duck Amuck
 * Bully For Bugs
 * Ali Baba Bunny
 * Rabbit Fire
 * For Scent-imental Reasons
 * Long-Haired Hare
 * What's Opera, Doc?
 * Operation: Rabbit

The cartoons are followed by a 15-minute compilation featuring Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, culled from 11 cartoons (*To Beep or Not to Beep, Zoom and Bored, Hopalong Casualty, Whoa, Be-Gone!, Ready, Set, Zoom!, There They Go-Go-Go, Gee Whizzz..., Going! Going! Gosh, Stop, Look and Hasten, Beep Prepared, Fast and Furry-ous).

The cartoons and bridging scenes were directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, and animated by Maurice Noble and Ben Washam, both of whom also supplied the backgrounds. A running gag is established at the film's beginning; Chuck Jones had put the "That's all folks!" card in the wrong place, which Bugs corrects as "That's NOT all Folks!". This happens again at the end; That's all Folks! was being written again, but Bugs stops it and makes it rewrite as "That's not quite all Folks" before the credits roll. Right at the end, just before the Warner Communications Company logo, the same catchphrase appears but written as "That's really all Folks!". On top of the logo is Bugs, and he says, "Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!"