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'{{Short description|1948 animated short film directed by Chuck Jones}} {{Infobox film | image = Haredevil Hare title card.png | director = [[Chuck Jones|Charles M. Jones]] | story = [[Michael Maltese]] | animator = [[Ben Washam]]<br>[[Lloyd Vaughan]]<br>[[Ken Harris]]<br>[[Phil Monroe]] | background_artist = [[Pete Alvarado|Peter Alvarado]] | layout_artist = [[Robert Gribbroek]] | starring = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>(all voices) | music = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]] | editing = | producer = | studio = [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]] | distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]<br>[[The Vitaphone Corporation]] | released = {{Film date|1948|7|24}} | color_process = [[Technicolor]] | runtime = 7:42 | language = English }} '''''Haredevil Hare''''' is a 1948 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon directed by [[Chuck Jones]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/60/mode/2up |pages=60–61}}</ref> It stars [[Bugs Bunny]] and it is the debut for [[Marvin the Martian]] &mdash; although he is unnamed in this film&mdash;along with his Martian dog, [[K-9 Looney Tune|K-9]].<ref name=Beck>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=187}}</ref> Marvin's nasal voice for this first film is different from the later one he is most known for. ==Plot== [[File:Looney Tunes 'Haredevil Hare' - screenshot.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Bugs Bunny, disguised as a Martian, hands Marvin the Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Animation by Ken Harris.]] The cartoon opens with the newspaper ('The Daily Snooze) headlines "Scientists to Launch First Rocket to Moon" and "Heroic Rabbit Volunteers as First Passenger" (also with two titles that look as though they were pulled from real papers, namely, "Big eastern interests" and "60,000 Greeks in big push on guerrillas"). However, the scene then changes to Bugs literally being dragged across the [[launching pad]] to the waiting [[rocket]] as he frantically protests against what is to be expected of him, but then immediately becomes cooperative when he sees the rocket being loaded with [[carrot]]s. The rocket is then launched into space. Shocked by the sudden acceleration of the rocket, Bugs attempts to exit it, but when he opens up the hatch, he is horrified when he sees that the rocket has now already left Earth. When the rocket lands on the [[Moon]], Bugs completely goes to pieces, but quickly regains his composure as he starts to walk on the surface of the moon, contemplating the fact that he is the first living creature to set foot on it, while passing behind a large rock on which the words "[[Kilroy was here]]" are written. Another rocket soon lands nearby, called the ''Mars to Moon Expeditionary Force'' from the planet [[Mars]], and from it emerges an unnamed [[Martian]] (later known as [[Marvin the Martian]]), who begins work on something that involves a missile and clearly concerns [[Earth]]. Curious, Bugs asks Marvin what he is up to, and Marvin explains he is there to blow up the earth. Bugs is initially not concerned, until he realizes the severity of the situation and steals from Marvin the missile's fuel source, a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, a small device resembling, and that operates the same as, a mere stick of [[dynamite]]. He shortly has to then deal with Marvin's Martian [[dog]], named [[K-9 (Looney Tunes)|K-9]], who, as ordered to by Marvin, retrieves it while Bugs is distracted trying to send an [[SOS]] to Earth. In one of his classic word switcharoos, and after that through flattery, which the dog is absent-mindlessly, extremely prone to, Bugs successfully gets the Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator back. This prompts an angry Marvin to berate and scold his dog. Bugs quickly arrives disguised as a Martian with a "special delivery from Mars" and hands Marvin the Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, now wired to a [[detonator]]. While Marvin is celebrating the return of the Uranium PU-36, Bugs activates the detonator. The explosion reduces the moon to a [[crescent]]. A silhouette on earth resembling [[Friz Freleng]] contacts Bugs Bunny, and asks if he has a statement to the press. Bugs, hanging precariously from the edge of the Moon, with Marvin and the dog clinging to him and dangling below, answers that he does, and in his typical [[Brooklyn]] accent yells out, "GET ME OUTTA HERE!" ==Reception== Animation producer [[Paul Dini]] writes, "Before director Chuck Jones cast Bugs Bunny in the more or less permanent role of unflappable hero, the director and his animators seemed to delight in emotionally challenging their long-eared star. Nowhere is that more gleefully apparent than in 1948's ''Haredevil Hare'', wherein the reluctant space-going rabbit is called upon to display terror, greed, nonchalance, innocence, and frustration, with side trips to wise-guy confidence and doe-eyed flirtation. Ben Washam's brilliant animation of Bugs' extended post-crash jitters in reason enough to place this cartoon among the Warner Bros. greats."<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Beck |editor1-first=Jerry |title=The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons |date=2020 |publisher=Insight Editions |isbn=978-1-64722-137-9 |page=89}}</ref> ==Home media== This cartoon is included on disc 3 of the ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1]]'' DVD set and also included on disc 2 of the ''[[Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1]]'' [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] box set with the cartoon restored and in [[High-definition television|high definition]]. This short is also available on disc 1 of ''[[The Essential Bugs Bunny]]''. ==See also== * [[Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)]] * [[List of Bugs Bunny cartoons]] * [[List of Marvin the Martian cartoons]] == References == {{reflist|}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} * {{IMDb title|0040422}} {{Chuck Jones}} {{S-start}} {{Succession box | before= [[Bugs Bunny Rides Again]] | title= [[List of Bugs Bunny cartoons|Bugs Bunny Cartoons]] | years= 1948 | after= [[Hot Cross Bunny]]|}} {{S-end}} [[Category:1948 films]] [[Category:1948 short films]] [[Category:1948 animated films]] [[Category:1940s American animated films]] [[Category:1940s animated short films]] [[Category:American films]] [[Category:Looney Tunes shorts]] [[Category:Warner Bros. 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