Hitchcoc This is a kind of variation on an Arabian Nights story. It's the old "Open Sesame" thing where an immerse treasure is kept in a cave. Daffy and Bugs are on their way to Pismo Beach, CA, to enjoy the beach, but a wrong turn in Albuquerque gets them lost. They end up in an Arabian desert. Because they have tunneled underground, they pop up in the treasure cave. Of course, when Daffy sees the jewels and gold, he drives Bugs into the ground and begins to take possession of all the loot. Unfortunately for him, Ali Baba or some other guy is around and he isn't happy to see someone running off with his treasure. Just like always, Daffy goes bananas, and Bugs is the unflappable one. Fun, familiar effort by Chuck Jones.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) This 7-minute short film from almost 60 years ago has a touch of Aladdin 8or Ali Baba as the title suggests) to it. Mel Blanc does all the voices in here and the director/writer duo are Jones and Maltese as always. Basically Bugs and Daffy come out of their tunnel and appear in the treasure of a wealthy sultan. Daffy wants to make it his own right away, but there is a strong guard watching it. And after he (well, it was really Bugs) finally managed to get rid off him, a genie shows up and puts Daffy in his place. Bugs plays a genie as well in an earlier scene. Well.. at least Daffy realizes he is a greedy slob. Self-awareness is the first step, you know. However, I was fairly underwhelmed by this cartoon. I am surprised it is so popular, maybe because it has a set of antagonists other than the usual Elmer and company. But I found it fairly uninteresting, pretty much never funny and also Bugs really adds nothing to this short movie, probably as Daffy has other characters to go against. Not recommended.

ccthemovieman-1 This is a great cartoon for several reasons: 1 - Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are both in it; 2 - it's filled with classic lines (many by Daffy); 3 - the humor is both subtle and slapstick; and 4 - it looks fantastic with a restored version. The colors are magnificent. (See it on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5).This story includes a bunch of treasure, a big guard named "Hassan" guarding the loot, and a genie. As with some other cartoons that featured both Bugs and Daffy, our rabbit friend doesn't do much, just lets the duck make a fool of himself.This is very entertaining start to finish - tons of good gags - and one of those cartoons that always will be funny no matter how many times you see it.

Shira Dotnet Other people here on IMDb have given good plot synopses in their comments, so I'll try to describe other things about this cartoon that may interest some people, such as which DVD you can find it on (if you care).The copy of this cartoon that I saw was on the DVD set titled "Looney Tunes Movie Collection". It contains "two feature-length movies", both of which are collections of classic Looney Tunes cartoons loosely woven together with a minimal plot. The first DVD in the set, which contains the Ali Baba Bunny cartoon, is "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie". Ali Baba Bunny is the 8th scene.The length of Ali Baba Bunny as it appears in "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie" is 6 minutes 14 seconds. For people like me who enjoy spotting glimpses of belly dancing in movies and cartoons, Bugs does a couple of head slides and hip slides about 3 minutes and 44 seconds into it, when he is pretending to be a genie. It's only about 4 seconds long, but it's there.The other disk in the same 2-DVD package contains a much-shortened version of the same cartoon, under the name Hassan Chop. It is chopped, indeed. This falls within a movie called "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" as the 6th scene. It is 1 minute 57 seconds in length. It tells basically the same story, but leaves out a lot along the way to achieve the shorter length. It doesn't have the genie scene with the hip slides.I prefer the Ali Baba Bunny version. Too many funny moments needed to be removed to create the shorter Hassan Chop version.