Very Cool!!!

the audience applauded

Sorry, this movie sucks

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

. . . and that both institutions are run by the Criminal Class in this animated short released more than five decades before the Derivatives Crisis. As a banker, Nasty Canasta flattens Bugs Bunny's fortune with confiscatory 100% account fees. Nasty uses this ill-gotten loot to open a swank gambling palace. Bugs approaches this Den of Iniquity feigning ignorance, to put Nasty off his guard. In reality, the savvy hare is a magnet for gold coins, eliciting them like a Diviner flushes water out of deserts. From the slots to the roulette wheel to the poker table, the wily bunny attracts the jingling yellow coins like fleas accumulate dogs. Even Russian Roulette pays off for Bugs, after which Nasty blows his brains out. Of course, Warner always maintains that if there's anything nastier than a banker, it must be a million- or, a billionaire. At least 127 of the 1,090 official Looney Tunes warn us that if Scrooge McDuck ever takes up residence in the White House, we're all doomed. Premier Trudeau will be sure to build the Great Wall of Canada--at his country's expense--to keep out all the fleeing American Refugees. Will Bugs come out of semi-retirement to play another Trump card?

Bugs Bunny is tunneling to see his cousin in San Francisco when he hits his head on a large gold nugget. Bugs doesn't enjoy his gold for long as he's soon swindled out of it by a crook called Nasty Canasta (love that name!). Six months later, Canasta has used the gold to build himself a profitable casino. Bugs shows up and decides to get even with the swindler by taking him for all he's worth. A funny and nicely-animated short from director Chuck Jones. I liked how the action starts during the opening credits, something Jones did quite a bit. Since the cartoon's only 7 minutes or so I appreciate how he tried to get in as much as he could. I liked the villain Nasty Canasta a lot. Aside from having a cool name, he's voiced by the great Daws Butler. Bugs is in top form here, especially when in disguise at the casino. Some hilarious gags like 'draw poker' and 'bigger hand.' Just a fun short.

Written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Chuck Jones, featuring a great music score by Carl W. Stalling, "Barbary-Coast Bunny" is an enjoyable Bugs Bunny cartoon that takes place in 19th-Century San Francisco! When Bugs (voiced by Mel Blanc) discovers a mound of gold, a slick cigar-chomping gambler (voiced by Daws Butler) cheats him out of it and flees. Will this be the end of Bugs Bunny's fortune? My favorite moments from this cartoon: Watch Bugs' eyes - and his animated reaction - when he first discovers the gold. Likewise, look at Bugs' wry facial expression as he starts to leave the saloon (with a wheelbarrow full of gold) and then tells the gambler that it isn't any fun to play with him when he overreacts. Plus, I like how Bugs plays roulette with the bullet chamber of the gambler's pistol."Barbary-Coast Bunny" can be found on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4 Disc 1. As I've pointed out in other written commentaries, director Chuck Jones can evoke laughter from the simplest facial expressions. In addition to Bugs Bunny's expressions that I've described above, watch the various expressions on the gambler's face each time that Bugs outsmarts him in a game.

I like how Bugs' speech has improved over the years. Instead of the normal, "You realize this is war" he now says (at least in this cartoon) "You realize that this is not going to go unchallenged!"Bugs had just gotten stupidly swindled out of his big rock of gold by some unscrupulous bandit, who rode away with this lode. Six months later, in San Francisco (dig the fantastic artwork of The City, by the way), a derby-wearing Bugs looks into a fancy new saloon and sees "one of those new fancy tele-o- phones," which is really a slot machine. The boss of the place is the crook who stole Bugs' gold, but our hero doesn't notice that right away.....or does he?Suffice to say, Bugs - quite the gambler - finds a way to get even.