Bugs Bunny tries to protect a castle by kicking Sam the Terrible out and not letting him back in.Bugs Bunny tries to protect a castle by kicking Sam the Terrible out and not letting him back in.Bugs Bunny tries to protect a castle by kicking Sam the Terrible out and not letting him back in.
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- TriviaArthur Davis's final credit as an animator for Warner Bros. cartoons during the original theatrical era. He had left the studio by June 1960, demanding he be released from his contract because fellow animator Phil Monroe had been promoted as supervisor of the commercials unit instead of him. He freelance directed one more cartoon, Quackodile Tears (1962), as a favor to Friz Freleng while he was working at Hanna Barbera. When Freleng and David H. DePatie started DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, he took a job there, directing many Pink Panther shorts.
- GoofsWhen the villagers flee Sam, they cross a stone bridge to get into the castle. But halfway through the cartoon the bridge has become a wooden drawbridge, and the only part of the bridge that is made of stone is the end nearest the castle.
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Sam the Terrible: You better open that gate, Prince Varmint, or I'll bust it down.
- Alternate versionsWhen this cartoon aired on ABC (still retitled as "Prince Varmint"), the aforementioned explosives gag was edited thus: after Sam lights the fuses of the explosives, he manages to cross the still-lowered drawbridge and escape the explosives just before they blow up. However, he still looks much the worse for wear when he enters the castle.
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"Ya double crossers...I'm a comin' back and I ain't comin' back to play marbles!"
Not one of my favourite Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam cartoons. It is a very entertaining one, but not as good as From Hare to Heir, Bugs Bunny Rides Again, Sahara Hare, Mutiny on the Bunny and Roman-Legion Hare. I didn't care for the animation here, generally the Looney Tunes shorts weren't as fluid or as luscious as the ones from the 40s and 50s and sadly Prince Violent was no exception with some colours that looked rather flat to me and while Sam is well animated Bugs is somewhat scratchy compared to normal. Excepting the hilarious scene at the end and when he is used as a boat, the pachyderm doesn't have that much of an interesting role here. However, the music is rousing and energetic yet lush and beautiful as well. The writing is as witty as you would expect, Bugs and Sam both have their fair share of great lines but Sam's final line is an absolute gem, possibly one of his best ever. The gags are not the most imaginative of their outings, but especially when Sam is flattened trying to knock the castle down and the bit with the dynamite it is still funny. I have also loved seeing the cleverness of arrogant yet likable Bugs and the stupidity of greedy and abrasive Sam, and both are used well and are great characters commanding the screen right from their first entrances. Mel Blanc is as outstanding as ever. All in all, a very good short but not one of my favourites. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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- Runtime7 minutes
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