Something I've always wondered

[PorkyandDaffy]

Who is Bugs impersonating in BUCCANEER BUNNY when he dresses up as a captain and sticks his lip out?

[rodney]

Charles Laughton probably, who starred in Mutiny On The Bounty.

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
Who is Bugs impersonating in BUCCANEER BUNNY when he dresses up as a captain and sticks his lip out?

Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh from the film MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. Laughton caricatures can also be seen in "Good Noose", "Shiskabugs", "Porky's Road Race", and "Have You Got Any Castles?"


-Jon

[PorkyandDaffy]

Thanks.

[Patrick McCart]

That adaptation (much, much better than the Marlon Brando remake) was extremely popular in the 2nd half of the 1930's, thus the numerous references to it in the Looney Tunes.

Coincidentially, WB owns the film due to it being from MGM.

[Cartman]

Charles Laughton can also be seen in the Disney cartoon "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood."

[Greg Method]

Originally posted by Jon Cooke

Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh from the film MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. Laughton caricatures can also be seen in "Good Noose", "Shiskabugs", "Porky's Road Race", and "Have You Got Any Castles?"

And, of course, "Roman Legion Hare."

[PlopKat]

A caricature of Charles Laughton also appears in Porky's Road Race (1937, directed by Frank Tashlin).

-PlopKat

[Patrick McCart]

The reference in Roman Legion Hare might have been from Spartacus. What year was it made in?

[Paul Penna]

Originally posted by Patrick McCart
The reference in Roman Legion Hare might have been from Spartacus. What year was it made in?

Well, "Spartacus" was 1960, and "Roman Legion-Hare" was 1955, so that's not it. Laughton's only film portrayal of Nero was in 1932's "Sign of the Cross." He was also the Roman emperor Claudius in the unfinished 1937 film, "I, Claudius."

Like Bligh and Henry VIII, though, Nero seems a role he was born to play.