Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
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| Directed by |
Greg Ford Terry Lennon |
| Produced by | Steven S. Greene Kathleen Helppie-Shipley |
| Written by |
John W. Dunn Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce |
| Starring |
Mel Blanc Julie Bennett Roy Firestone B.J. Ward |
| Narrated by | Rolf Saxon |
| Music by |
Milt Franklyn William Lava Carl Stalling (majority from old cartoons) |
| Cinematography | Tim Whintall |
| Edited by | Treg Brown |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a 1988 Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and animated bridging sequences, starring Daffy Duck. It was the final theatrical production in which Mel Blanc provided the voices of the various Looney Tunes characters before his death on July 10, 1989. It was also the only compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts not composed by Robert J. Walsh. The film was released to theaters by Warner Bros. on September 24, 1988.
The film opens with the 1988 short The Night of the Living Duck. This short is exclusive to this film.
Street corner salesman Daffy tries to make a pitch to reclusive billionaire and "ailing buzzsaw baron" J.P. Cubish (a dog)---who has offered wealth to anyone who can make him laugh before he passes on---only to be stymied by Cubish's butler (also a dog). Eventually driving off the butler, Daffy becomes Cubish's jester, taking uncounted pies in the face while Cubish laughs uproariously. After Cubish's death soon afterward ("died laughing", reports one newspaper), Daffy inherits the Cubish fortune...locked in a safe...under the provision that he will use the money to provide a service to the community and follow Cubish's creed to display honesty in business affairs. The now-wealthy Daffy derides the idea ("What a rube!" he says of Cubish), but his deceased benefactor returns as an unseen ghost, with the intention of taking back his fortune until Daffy agrees to uphold the terms. The irked Daffy vows to use the money to wipe out ghosts (à la Ghostbusters) such as Cubish.
Setting himself up as a "Paranormalist at Large," Daffy persuades Bugs Bunny to appear in commercials (despite the rabbit's intention of going to Palm Springs), then hires Porky Pig (accompanied by Sylvester) as an underling; Cubish continues to make money vanish from inside the safe whenever Daffy seems to be operating dishonestly.
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