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An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.
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- Writers
- Star
Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Dave Monahan
- Aesop(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe title reads "Tortoise Beats Hare" even though Cecil's last name it Turtle, he is in fact a tortoise. A tortoise spends most of its time on land, where's a turtle spends most of its life in water. A tortoise shell is domed, where the turtle shell is more streamlined to create less resistance when swimming. Also their legs differ. Tortoises have thick stumpy legs made for walking. Turtles have webbing between their toes and have long claws.
- Quotes
Bugs Bunny: Why you... you little blankety-blank-blank toitle... how did... you did... I didn't...
Cecil Turtle: ...and "how" about my ten bucks?
Bugs Bunny: Oh, alright; here!
Bugs Bunny: [after he gives Cecil the money] Onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightnineten! And I hope ya choke!
- Crazy creditsBugs Bunny walks out on screen and reads the credits aloud, mispronouncing all the names. He becomes furious when he finally reads the title proclaiming his defeat for the entire audience to see. He then rips up the title screen, and the background appears.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)
- SoundtracksHere We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
(uncredited)
Traditional
[Variations played often in the score]
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Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to a race and you just know who is going to win. This classic film from Tex Avery contains plenty of nice action and some great jokes, although in a way I find it rather hard to cheer for anyone from either side since both are cheating throughout the film. Perhaps that's just my brain over thinking things but this is still a very entertaining and very funny film. There are many great gags but the best are Bugs when he starts to go mad wondering how Cecil keeps passing him up. The final gag is also a winner. As good as this short is I think its sequel TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE is even better.
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to a race and you just know who is going to win. This classic film from Tex Avery contains plenty of nice action and some great jokes, although in a way I find it rather hard to cheer for anyone from either side since both are cheating throughout the film. Perhaps that's just my brain over thinking things but this is still a very entertaining and very funny film. There are many great gags but the best are Bugs when he starts to go mad wondering how Cecil keeps passing him up. The final gag is also a winner. As good as this short is I think its sequel TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE is even better.
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- Michael_Elliott
- May 2, 2009
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- Черепаха перемагає зайця
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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