Homeless Hare
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| "Homeless Hare" | |
| Merrie Melodies series | |
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
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| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Animation by | Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc John T. Smith (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | 1950 (USA) |
| Format | Technicolor, 7 min (one reel) |
| Language | English |
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Homeless Hare is a 1950 Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical animated short starring Bugs Bunny. It was directed by Chuck Jones. Bugs has to deal with an unruly construction worker after his home is destroyed.
[edit] Plot
Bugs wakes up after a long night to find that a construction worker (Whom Bugs derisively refers to as "Hercules") has just shoveled up his rabbit hole near a skyrise being built. Bugs kindly asks the construction worker to put his hole back, but the worker simply dumps Bugs and the dirt in a dump truck. Bugs then declares 'war' on the worker, dropping a steel girder on him, and then playing with the elevator controls while the worker is inside the elevator. The worker manages to get the better of Bugs, knocking him out temporarily and causing Bugs to sleepwalk. When Bugs recovers and sees the worker ordering a timid worker to do his work, this infuriates Bugs. Bugs takes a look at the floor plans for the skyrise, then drops a single red-hot rivet down a hole, which bounces around until it burns through a rope holding up a giant steel pipe. The pipe then falls on top of the worker, who finally waves the white flag in defeat. The next shot is of the finished skyrise, with a slight indentation in the middle. At the bottom, Bugs sits in his hole - the building having been built around it - and declares, "After all, a man's home IS his castle."
