Nonureva Really Surprised!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

mrdonleone yes I saw this one in the Film Museum of Brussels. it was a bit silly, I thought, but it fit right in the context: a lesson about communism in Hollywood. this cartoon contains of two parts: the first one was about how the situation was in those years of war and the second one was to ridicule it with lots of satire and parodies of existing political figures. the cartoon left me a bit unsatisfied, because I wondered the whole if Hitler would have seen this (because the 'main' character is a satire on him)? they couldn't tell me in the Film Museum, what was a pity. I do realize why this cartoon was banned (or should be banned at the time): it contains too much propaganda for political systems.

Lee Eisenberg Throughout the Cold War, it was customary to portray Russians as drunk at best, evil at worst. Even today in movies, Russians tend to get relegated to the roles of mobsters and corrupt oligarchs. Apparently, we've forgotten that the Soviet Union was our staunch ally in World War II. "Russian Rhapsody" sticks with that. It portrays Hitler -ranting like in "The Great Dictator" - concerned about German planes going missing over Russia, so he decides to fly there personally (he's the best pilot). During the flight, Gremlins from the Kremlin start dancing all over his plane and dismantling it.I should say that this isn't the best Looney Tunes cartoon. Far from it. But I just like that there was one cartoon that portrayed Russians positively.

theowinthrop This was the second of three Warner Brothers, anti-Hitler cartoons that were broadcast yesterday on the Turner Classic Film Network's "Cartoon Alley".Hitler is upset that all attempts to bomb Moscow have met with disaster, so he announces at the start that he will fly a special plane to hit the city. He announces that the flight will be by the greatest Nazi superman in history. When he is asked if will be flown by him, he answers "Mm, COULD BE!!", which was a radio comedy catchphrase of the day (I think from Jack Benny's program).So he sets off, and for most of the cartoon we just watch him flying. But we see these cartoon gremlins (who this thread explains were caricatures of Fritz Freleng, Chuck Jones, and others, and they proceed to destroy the airplane (while singing a song to the tune of OY CHICHOINYA" - "We're all gremlins, from the Kremlin"). In the end they cause Hitler to crash, and he is so confused by the whole adventure he turns into a caricature of Lew Lehr, who did comic travelogues for the movies. His catch phrase was "Monkeys is the Cwaziest peoples." The cartoon is funny, and one can see some past influences, When the gremlins are trying a variety of things to do to Hitler, the cartoonist orchestrates them to just miss hitting each other. A cartoon about the building of the world's tallest skyscraper had a sequence when about five or six different construction workers tried to hammer nails in different corners of the structure as planned, but all fail to notice that their nails, if driven up , down, or sideways, will end up nailing some co-worker in his rear.This was also the second Warner's cartoon where the fictitious "Gremlins" popped up to destroy aircraft - the other was a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he is outsmarted by the Gremlins who are trying to destroy the U.S. Air Force plane Bugs is on. That cartoon only had one Gremlin on it, and it also had a joke at the end dealing with gasoline rationing.One of the highlights here was the mask of Joseph Stalin, used to frighten Hitler who was trying to kill some of the Russian Gremlins before that. Stalin also appears in the last of the three Warner cartoons I saw this morning, "Herr Meets HARE", but was rarely in any of the Warner cartoons made after the "Cold War" began to heat up in the late 1940s.

Calvin_C This cartoon is a real classic. Hitler is made into a literal jack-ass in the film. For those who don't know, Hitler isn't an Oriental in the end..."Nutzis are da cwaziest peoples" is a Lew Lhler impression. Watch for this gag in countless other cartoons like Porky's Snooze Reel (1942) and Scaredy Cat (1948).