Fox Devil (1952)

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Movie
German title Fox devil game
Original title Foxy by Proxy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1952
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Friz Freleng
script Warren Foster
production Eddie Selzer
music Carl Stalling
cut Treg Brown

Fuchsteufelswild is a 1952 American animated short film directed by Friz Freleng .

action

Mounted hunters blow their hunting horns to wake their hunting dogs. Some smaller dogs come out of a huge kennel, followed by a large hound who is delighted with the prospect of the hunt - especially the moment when the foxtail is about to be clipped. The hunters and dogs run down Bugs' rabbit hole and wake him up, leaving the larger foxhound behind. After Bugs sends the bigger dog to where the other dogs went, he puts on a fox costume and plays a prank on the big dog. Bugs is amazed that the dog cannot tell a rabbit from a fox. When the big dog realizes that he has been set up, he runs back to the tree where Bugs was standing and finds it without a costume.

Then Bugs, who has slipped back into his fox costume, lays false fox tracks in order to mislead the dogs. The wrong tracks eventually lead to railroad tracks that the dog continues to follow. When the dog finally finds the costumed Bugs, he says that the dog has to catch a train because he would have followed train tracks. Shortly afterwards, the dog hangs on the front of a locomotive and shouts that it has caught a train.

(This double play on words is lost in the translation, as different terms are used for “fox tracks” and “train tracks” in German. Likewise, in German you don't “catch” a train (to catch a train ), but you take or get it.)

In the meantime the other dogs have caught up with bugs in his costume and he tried to escape them but was unsuccessful. When he reveals that he is a rabbit, one of the dogs explains that they are now hunting rabbits. After a brief chase where Bugs runs through a hollow log, Bugs runs out of the log again, and while the dogs run back inside, Bugs rotates the trunk three times to make sure the pack of dogs is always running towards the cliff. The dogs eventually fall down the cliff. While Bugs laughs at their misfortune and mockingly announces that "these dogs can manage to get a foxtail on his own, but never a rabbit tail", the big dog sneaks up from behind, cuts off Bugs' tail and runs away with it. Bugs shrugs his shoulders and says: "Just call me stubby!"

production

Fuchsteufelswild arrived on February 23, 1952 as part of the Warner Bros. -Trick film series Merrie Melodies in cinemas. Bugs Bunny is voiced by Mel Blanc .

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