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The Coyote employs a series of devices to try to capture the Road Runner.The Coyote employs a series of devices to try to capture the Road Runner.The Coyote employs a series of devices to try to capture the Road Runner.
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Mel Blanc
- Wile E. Coyote
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Paul Julian
- Road Runner
- (archive sound)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAfter Wile E. Coyote takes his Acme Super Leg Muscle Supplement, he takes off in a blaze of fire. The road runner leaves smoke, the coyote leaves fire. The sounds for this fire effect, done by sound genius Treg Brown, were made using an old flame thrower, a motorcycle clip, and sounds from the airplanes in Dawn Patrol, all sped up a bit.
- GoofsWhen Coyote is preparing to seize the road runner in the rope loop trap, a truck comes past which isn't scaled correctly, it's very large when compared to coyote, and the camera isn't positioned low on the ground where that scale could be correct.
- Crazy creditsBurmese Tiger (Surprisibus! Surprisibus!)
- Alternate versionsThe film's closing gag, the Road Runner forming "That's all, folks!" from the smoke, is usually cut from TV prints.
- ConnectionsEdited into Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962)
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One of the greatest of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons
While there are some duds in the later years, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons are mostly an enjoyable watch. There are also some great ones, and Stop! Look! And Hasten! is one of them, up there with the best of them.
Stop! Look! And Hasten! is very well-animated. It's vibrant in colour, smooth in how it's all drawn, simple but attractively detailed backgrounds and the character animation is some of the richest of the series, Coyote's facial expressions and reactions make the cartoon worth watching all on their own (especially in the gag on the train tracks). With Carl Stalling and the music, this viewer has always associated Stalling with writing consistently good to outstanding music scores for the Looney Tunes cartoons and they are nearly always one of the highlights. That is precisely the case with his music for Stop! Look! And Hasten!, the orchestration is lush and clever, it's lively and characterful rhythmically and it matches with everything seamlessly and even adds to the enjoyment.
The gags are some of the funniest and most brilliant of the series, even reasonably familiar ones like with the TNT and the starting gag feel fresh and Coyote's reaction in the train track gag elevates what could have been an ordinary gag to something memorable. Of the gags, the Burmese tiger, the bridge and ending gags are the ones that stand-out, they are hilarious and perfectly executed in terms of timing. Premise-wise, the story is formulaic and more of the same but with the material being so funny, the pacing so thrillingly breathless and everything feeling so fresh that doesn't matter, there have been instances where it does with the series but mostly in the later cartoons when the material wasn't anywhere near as strong.
Roadrunner is an amusing and quite visually cute character, but Coyote is generally far funnier and more interesting, one that is cunning and hilarious but easy to empathise with when his schemes go wrong. In conclusion, a fabulous Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon and one of the greatest of the series. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Stop! Look! And Hasten! is very well-animated. It's vibrant in colour, smooth in how it's all drawn, simple but attractively detailed backgrounds and the character animation is some of the richest of the series, Coyote's facial expressions and reactions make the cartoon worth watching all on their own (especially in the gag on the train tracks). With Carl Stalling and the music, this viewer has always associated Stalling with writing consistently good to outstanding music scores for the Looney Tunes cartoons and they are nearly always one of the highlights. That is precisely the case with his music for Stop! Look! And Hasten!, the orchestration is lush and clever, it's lively and characterful rhythmically and it matches with everything seamlessly and even adds to the enjoyment.
The gags are some of the funniest and most brilliant of the series, even reasonably familiar ones like with the TNT and the starting gag feel fresh and Coyote's reaction in the train track gag elevates what could have been an ordinary gag to something memorable. Of the gags, the Burmese tiger, the bridge and ending gags are the ones that stand-out, they are hilarious and perfectly executed in terms of timing. Premise-wise, the story is formulaic and more of the same but with the material being so funny, the pacing so thrillingly breathless and everything feeling so fresh that doesn't matter, there have been instances where it does with the series but mostly in the later cartoons when the material wasn't anywhere near as strong.
Roadrunner is an amusing and quite visually cute character, but Coyote is generally far funnier and more interesting, one that is cunning and hilarious but easy to empathise with when his schemes go wrong. In conclusion, a fabulous Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon and one of the greatest of the series. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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- Aug 6, 2015
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- Runtime7 minutes
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By what name was Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954) officially released in Canada in English?
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