The bowery boys meet the monsters cannot hold a moving candle to ghost chasers, the teams best horror comedy, but boasts some prime malapropisms, the most ridiculous robot since the phantom creeps, paul wexler as a lurchlike butler, a giant maneating plant, a female vampire, steve calvert as cosmos the gorilla, and leo gorcey turning into a cavemanstyle monster. In addition to including the homophones hair and hare, the title is also a pun on longhairs, a characterization of. In 1949, the warner brothers cartoon studio was at their peak. A 10minute talk about how the restoration was accoml. The censored looney tunes and merrie melodies guide. Filmography for gabriel dell turner classic movies. Bowery bugs bugs tells the story about why steve brody jumped off the brooklyn bridge in 1886.
He made some terrific cartoons, but only one that featured bugs. On the bowery offers some of the most indelible faces in an american docudrama, faces ravaged by alcohol and poverty, creased by defeat and selfdeception, surrounded by a new york city that. George raft played brodie in the 1933 film the bowery, and the warner bros. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. National film registry by the library of congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. A popular bmovie series made between 1946 and 1958 featured the bowery boys, led by slip and satch. Bugs bunny rides again 1948 haredevil hare 1948 hot cross bunny 1948 hare splitter 1948 aladin his lamp 1948 my bunny lies over the sea 1948 hare do 1949 rebel rabbit 1949 high diving hare 1949 bowery bugs 1949 longhaired hare 1949 knights must fall 1949 the grey hounded hare 1949 the wind blown hare 1949. It has a documentary quality and little acting was required except for the protagonist whose performance was a bit stiff pun intended.
First off, the boys look back to their roots as the forties wind down with angels alley, complete with gangsters and fighting priests and the crime. In contrast with the irish immigrant tenement of the five points, one of the worst city slums in america, the bowery was a more prosperous workingclass community. Bowery bugs, from what ive gathered, was technicolor. On the bowery is a 1957 film directed by louis rogosin. Bowery bugs is a 1949 merrie melodies short directed by arthur davis. A 35minute look at bugs bunny an the origins of looney tunes.
Interestingly enough, rogosin claimed not to have seen an american film for many years prior to his making of on the bowery. Pictures as part of the looney tunes series, and was the 60th short to feature bugs bunny. This third volume of the complete bowery boys film collection carries within it some milestone moments for the series along with more mirth and malaprops than you can swing a crumpled fedora at. This is a practically perfect collection, with all the cartoons complete, but there are a few hiccups. List of bugs bunny cartoons looney tunes wiki fandom. Bowery bugs is a bugs bunny cartoon directed by arthur davis, written by lloyd turner and bill scott, and released in mid1949 as part of the merrie melodies series. I only have ice for you 1937 original titles recreation duration. The bowery was a haven for alcoholic drifters, mostly men, living desperate existences in. Bowery bugs 1949 original titles recreation youtube. They had established most of their enduring and beloved stable of characters, and were building on the legacy of legendary directors such as bob clampett, tex avery, and frank tashlin. As happy rabbit porkys hare hunt debut, as happy rabbit, presto changeo as happy rabbit, hareum scareum as happy rabbit, elmers candid camera as happy rabbit. Once upon a time, poor people lived on manhattan island. Bowery bugs june 4, 1949 mm, arthur davis longhaired hare june 25, 1949 lt, jones knights must fall july 16, 1949 mm, freleng the grey hounded hare august 6, 1949 lt, mckimson the windblown hare august 27, 1949 lt, mckimson with b.
Longhaired hare is a 1949 american animated short film directed by chuck jones and written by michael maltese. The film has everything you could ever want from a cartoon. List of bugs bunny cartoons wikimili, the best wikipedia. New york, the 50s, stark, sharp, beautiful black and white. It will be only animation in picture, balance of technicolor film being live action. Out in the wilderness elmer runs into a lot of grief when bugs bunny enters the frame. Gorman hendricks, a longtime bowery resident, and frank matthews, who collects rags and cardboard on a pushcart. The golden collection series was launched following the success of the walt disney treasures series which collected archived disney material these collections were made possible after the merger of time warner which owned the color cartoons released from august 1, 1948 onward, as well as the blackandwhite looney tunes, the postharmanising blackandwhite merrie melodies and. Complete national film registry listing sort films by title, year of release, and year inducted into the registry by using the up and down arrows at the top of each column. The film chronicles life on new yorks skid row, which then was the bowery, focusing on three days in the life of a small group of its residents. The list of animators was rarely complete, and credits were assigned more on a. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to bowery bugs. Sach convinces the boys that it is real and they go down to the recruiters office and enlist.
Bowery bugs 1949 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Cartoon pictures and video for bowery bugs 1949 bcdb. Space jam and 8 bugs bunny cartoons have bg audio, but no english counterpart. Bowery bugs 1949 merrie melodies theatrical cartoon series.
Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography 1940s. Bosley crowther of the new york times described on the bowery as sordid and pitiful. As mentioned before, i have a special place in my hear for this series and we have a typical early flick of the bowery boys in this one. The film was released on january 24, 1951, by monogram pictures and is the twentyfirst film in the series. There had been some talk that clark gable would play the raft role. The hilarious and ever entertaining bugs bunny cartoons. The bowery was the first film from twentieth century pictures the movie features wallace beery as saloon owner chuck connors, raft as steve brodie, the first man to jump off the brooklyn bridge and live, jackie cooper as a pugnacious child, fay wray as the leading lady, and pert kelton as a bawdy dance hall singer. Top o the morning 1949 is yet another example of how much the irish love to parody themselves, or more specifically as in the case of this hollywoodmade movie, how much irish americans love to parody the irish. Despite its reputation as one of the most notorious street gangs. Bowery boys movie poster book, volume 1 by greg lenburg to celebrate this longrunning, popular film series, the bowery boys movie poster book, volume 1 presents, for the first time, rare, color posters from nearly 50 of their movies from the dead end kids to. Steve brodies stunt inspired a slew of pop culture references, including the 1933 hollywood film the bowery, in which fellow lower east sider george raft portrayed brodie in the lead role. Viewed on tcm in the summer of 2019 latest and have the dvd of the film and all 48 flicks. Brody replies, i aint got no bumps on my head, and, naturally, bugs creates some by striking brody with a mallet.
But others recognized the little fugitives and on the bowery as signs of the emergence of a new cinematic art form. The military is performing a practice air raid on new york city. Leo gorcey, huntz hall, lloyd corrigan comedy ghost film haunted house film. A total of 307 shorts were released during the 1940s. It is with this simple setup that tex avery unleashes what could be argued as the funniest cartoon ever made, and certainly one of the highlights of averys career, standing alongside classics such as kingsize canary 1947 and little rural riding hood 1949. The bowery is portrayed in the 1934 krazy kat cartoon bowery daze. Only the real irish in ireland know the truth behind the silliness, and are usually quite forgiving of the irish american cousins for believing their own fantasies about ireland. Download pdf copies of the entire list of registry titles sorted alphabetically or by year of release. Complete national film registry listing film registry. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. There is a scene of bugs saying, how about me readin the bumps on your head. On the bowery was restored in 2006 from the original negatives by the cineteca di bologna and the laboratory limmagine ritrovato, in cooperation with rogosin heritage, inc. Bowery bugs is a bugs bunny cartoon directed by arthur davis, written by lloyd turner and bill scott, and released in mid1949 as part of the merrie melodies.
Bowery bugs art davis was an animator at the wb studio for years. The complete looney tunes and merry melodies filmography. A black cat walks by and something falls on the bulldogs head. Its principal characters are ray salyer, a railroad worker who has just arrived on the bowery after railroad work, and two older men. Bowery bugs bowery bugs bowery bugs 1949 merrie melodies theatrical cartoon series by dave koch. On the bowery, a film directed and produced by lionel rogosin and distributed by milestone films, chronicles three days on new yorks skid row, which went from elegant large mansions to a place of low rents and cheap drinks after being darkened by the elevated trains that covered the bowery. That daredevil steve brodie, king of the bowery the bowery boys. Looney tunes and merrie melodies are two wb series that feature various characters, however, most of their cartoons are under. Specifically, many of them lived in the bowery, a rundown neighborhood on the lower east side. Bowery bugs 1949 06041949 us animation 7m user score. A tale of the sporting life of the bowery from the. This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by warner bros.
Bowery battalion is a 1951 comedy film starring the bowery boys. The 1949 cartoon bowery bugs tells a fictionalized version of the steve brodie story, with bugs bunny as brodys tormenter. Bugs finally destroys his opponent by making him sing a ridiculously long high note, which tears the complete bowl down. Animated pictures from the cartoon bowery bugs from warner bros. On the bowery makes plain how on target oneill was. With cartoons like longhaired hare director chuck jones really came into his own. The bowery boys were a nativist, anticatholic, and antiirish criminal gang based in the bowery neighborhood of manhattan, new york city in the earlymid19th century. The post war years saw the establishment of a more settled arrangement of working. Home series looney tunes aired order season 1949 episode 14 home series. When steve brodie jumped off the brooklyn bridge in 1886 he needed a rabbits foot for good luck. What is depicted is a man teetering on the edge of descent into permanent residency on the bowery.