Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . and "Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel" (both children's picture books by Virginia Burton), Bugs Bunny finds his town hole threatened by a construction foreman. After four minutes of back and forth (in which Bugs generally prevails), an amusing sequence begins with Warner Bros.' favorite rabbit getting "Girdered." This leads to the dazed hare flirting with disaster high above the city, not unlike the BABY'S DAY OUT film and story. When a bucket of rain water saves the day, Bugs uses a red hot bolt to combine THE PRICE IS RIGHT's "Plinko Game" with a Rube Goldberg-like mechanical sequence to gain the upper hand in his fight to preserve his home. In nearly every American city today you can find evidence is the older parts of town of similar victories won by the "little guy" against the building sprawl of Big Interests. There are no such zoning anomalies in the newer sections of the city, ever since the Greedy Fat Cats invented the legal theft concept of "Eminent Domain."
Petri Pelkonen
A construction worker, who Bugs Bunny refers to as Hercules, has shoveled off his rabbit hole.He refuses to put it back.This means war! Homeless Hare from 1950 is a Merrie Melodies cartoon by Chuck Jones.Besides Mel Blanc we hear John T. Smith as a voice artist.This short has a lot of funny, zany stuff.We see Bugs playing with the elevator controls while the worker is inside the elevator.We see Bugs impersonating a building inspector, who orders the worker to make a high brick wall.We also see Bugs being knocked out.At the end we learn that a man's home is his castle.Not necessarily the most classic Bugs Bunny, but still very enjoyable.
Tweekums
While the story of this Bugs Bunny short isn't one of the best the execution is great. The cartoon opens with Bugs' rabbit hole being dug up my a construction worker, of course this means war and we all know who is going to win. Bugs is soon getting his revenge; dropping items on the worker, bouncing him up and down in an elevator and then disguising himself as the works foreman and ordering the worker to build a tall structure which is topped by a see-saw where a few bricks prevent the worker from falling... as Bugs takes off the bricks the worker removes items of clothing till he is left in his underwear, Bugs shows no mercy and removes the final brick sending him falling. Bugs doesn't get it all his own way, he is stunned when the worker swings a girder into his face, in this stunned state he staggers around the top or the building, each time we thing he is about to fall he steps onto an item being moved by a crane or a conveniently placed rope. This is the most creative part of the cartoon, the second best part is what Bugs does next... I won't say what he does exactly, just that it involves the creative use of a very hot rivet.Bugs is funny as usual and it was nice to see somebody get the better of him if only for a short while, it is just a shame the antagonist wasn't somebody more interesting. This was a nice addition to the DVD of "White Heat" starring James Cagney; a reminder that once when you went to the movies you got more than one film and a few adverts for your money.
Lee Eisenberg
If we've seen enough Bugs Bunny cartoons, we should know that he doesn't let anyone walk all over him and get away with it. This is truly the case in "Homeless Hare", as a brutish developer digs up Bugs's rabbit hole to make room for a building. The rest of the cartoon pretty much consists of Bugs coming up with ways to punish the developer. Probably the best part is the whole sequence that looks as if it was designed by Rube Goldberg, namely because you think that one thing is going to happen, but something even funnier ends up happening! How did they come up with these things?!Anyway, these cartoons are just plain great. I don't know how we got by without these.As Daffy said in "Stupor Duck": Couldn't they find a better place to put a building?
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