Barbary Coast Bunny
| Barbary-Coast Bunny | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series | |
| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Voices by |
Mel Blanc Daws Butler (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by |
Abe Levitow Richard Thompson Ken Harris |
| Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | July 21, 1956 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6' 49" (one reel) |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Napoleon Bunny-Part |
| Followed by | Half-Fare Hare |
Barbary-Coast Bunny is a 1956 Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short produced by Edward Selzer. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce.
In this story, the villain, Nasty Canasta, steals a large slab of gold from Bugs Bunny who retaliates by later bankrupting the villain's new casino in San Francisco. The title refers to San Francisco's Barbary Coast district.
Bugs is tunneling the cross country to meet his cousin in San Francisco, only to run head first into a boulder which is a large nugget of gold. Bugs is considering how to keep the gold safe; Nasty Canasta sees this and sets up a simple stand claiming to be a banker who can safely store Bugs' gold. The rabbit falls for the ruse. When Bugs decides to ask for his gold back, Canasta claims the bank is closing and traps the rabbit in the folded up stand while he rides away with the gold. Furious, Bugs vows revenge: "You realize this is not going to go unchallenged."
Six months later, Canasta has used his ill-gotten gains to start a casino in San Francisco which is shamelessly rigged in the house's favor. Bugs enters the casino in the role, playing a hopelessly naïve country boy who confuses a slot machine for a "telle-o-phone". When Bugs uses it to phone his mother for some money, he hits the jackpot much to Canasta's shock. In an attempt to recoup this loss, Canasta convinces Bugs to stay for a game and thinks he is maneuvering the apparently easy mark into playing a game of roulette on the pretense of it being a game of marbles. To build his would-be victim's confidence, Canasta arranges for Bugs to win on his first spin, but Bugs develops a winning streak on the same number (#23). Having nearly lost the money, Canasta covers #23 with a block of wood and sets the wheel up for the marble to stop on #00. When it does, he laughs and strikes the table in triumph, causing the ball to bounce and hammer through the knot in the wood block, giving Bugs another win.
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