Edgar Allan Pooh . . . is the upshot of Bugs Bunny's not-so-shaggy dog story, A HARE GROWS IN MANHATTAN. This Warner Bros. animated short SEEMS to deal with one fairly pedestrian incident from Bugs' formative days on America's East Coast. In actuality, Warner is tackling more profound issues with MANHATTAN. Perceptive viewers will note that bulldog Hector and his gang of canine terrorists ARE WEARING WINTER CLOTHES IN MID-SUMMER, just like the Bangladeshi bombers this week. Hector & Co. try to forcibly convert Bugs to their perverse sex cult\"faith" with calls of "Dog pile!", which Bugs rightly mocks. They threaten to "Murdalize" Bugs before a Suicide Plunge into a Manhattan Highrise. Anything beginning to sound familiar? Fortunately, Bugs realizes that these oddly-dressed radicals rattling off threats in foreign-sounding gibberish will only be deterred in an All-American Haven such as a baseball park, Natural History Museum of Evolution, or an American-language bookstore. Bugs ducks into the latter, and flashes a secular novel in front of Hector's rampaging rabble. This sends the mob of mongrel mutts scurrying, like a flock of vampires fleeing a garlic field.

Petri Pelkonen The famous Bugs Bunny, the much loved and adored movie star, is interviewed at his Hollywood home.He tells about his life, starting from when he was just a little bunny in Manhattan.And then he tells about his encounter with the dogs.Guess who wins.A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) is directed by Friz Freleng.Mel Blanc is the voice of Bugs Bunny, as usual.Bea Benaderet is Lola Beverly.Dogs' voices are provided by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce.It's most amusing to watch the singing and tap dancing Bugs Bunny.And the way he fools the dogs.Like the dog pile on the rabbit, except that Bugs isn't at the bottom of that pile.Just classic Bugs!

ccthemovieman-1 To fellow reviewers here: the title is there only because this is a play-on-words of the 1945 classic movie and best-selling book, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." So, Bugs growing up in Manhattan despite a Brooklyn accent is meaningless....not to be taken literally. It's all about fooling with the title name and nothing more. (Yes, Bugs IS from Brooklyn!)The story is told in flashback as some Hollywood celebrity magazine interviewer is visiting Bugs' digs and asking about publishing his life story. Bugs quickly dons a robe and sunglasses and plays the "star" to the hilt, and relays his story about growing up in New York City.Funny "bits" include Baby Bugs popping out of a flower plant holder sucking a carrot with a nipple on the end of it; the "He went that way" sign on electronic ticker-tape-type message board; the elevator zig-zagging up the skyscraper; Bugs doing his Egyptian dance, and finally, the plug for "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" book.More than the cartoon story, I enjoyed the artwork in here. Many of the Manahattan buildings and streets were beautifully painted. One shot has the Stork Club will the the striped canapé with yellow, red and brown buildings next to it. I froze the frame it looked an Edward Hopper painting - just magnificent artwork.

movieman_kev Bugs Bunny now a big star in LA tells gossip columnist Lola Beverly of his humble beginnings growing up in New York in particular facing a gang of street tough dogs. Of course outwitting these canine ruffians is no problem for young Bugs. This short is fairly humorous if nothing special, Bugs doesn't even have to use his razor sharp wit in this one as the dogs are pretty much on the dumb side. That being said, it was STILL a Bugs cartoon and I find myself entertained by every short of his just because of that (unless the shorts happens to be directed by Robert McKimson). This animated short can be found on Disk 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3 set.My Grade: B-