BUGS BUNNY'S 3RD MOVIE: 1001 RABBIT TALES

If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.

PRINCIPAL CAST

MEL BLANCBugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig / Yosemite Sam / Sylvester / Sylvester, Jr. / Speedy Gonzales / Tweety / Genie / Hassan / Big Bad Wolf / Beanstalk Giant / Elvis Gorilla / Stork (voice)

BEA BENADERETWitch Hazel (voice)

ARTHUR Q. BRYANElmer Fudd (voice)

JUNE FORAYGranny / Mother Gorilla / Goldimouse (voice)

SHEPARD MENKENOld Storyteller (voice)

LENNIE WEINRIBPrince Abba-Dabba (voice)