| Dumb Patrol | |
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_title_card.jpg) Title card | |
| Directed by | Gerry Chiniquy |
| Story by | John Dunn |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Bill Lava |
| Animation by | Virgil Ross Bob Matz Lee Halpern Art Leonardi |
| Layouts by | Bob Givens |
| Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures Vitagraph Company of America |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
| Language | English |
Dumb Patrol is a 1964 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Gerry Chiniquy.[1] It was released on January 18, 1964, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.[2] Director Gerry Chiniquy was a longtime animator in Friz Freleng's unit. The cartoon is set during World War I opening 'somewhere in France' in 1917, and it also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the war.[3]
The title is an allusion to The Dawn Patrol, a 1930 movie by Howard Hawks that also deals with World War I pilots. The same title was also used for an unrelated early Looney Tunes short starring Bosko, released in 1931.
Animation historian Jerry Beck considers Dumb Patrol to be among the worst Bugs Bunny cartoons.[4][5]
