Looney Tunes - Bugs Bunny - Dumb Patrol (1964)

*** MeTV restored print ***
Dumb Patrol is a 1964 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Gerry Chiniquy. The short was released on January 18, 1964, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. 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.
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.
Dumb Patrol does not fall into the normal pattern found in most other Bugs Bunny cartoon shorts. Bugs is not disturbed from a serene state as in most of his other shorts. Also, being a military pilot, he is the attacker, reversing his normal role of the victim. Yosemite Sam had previously been killed off in his previous short, Devil's Feud Cake (though because this film is set in the past it can be argued that this does not create an explicit continuity error, although Sam dies at the end of this cartoon as well)
This marks the final pairing of Bugs and Yosemite Sam, as well as the final appearance of the latter, one of the only 3 cartoons to feature both Bugs and Porky together, and the final time Porky appears without Daffy Duck.

Notes:
Though both Bugs and Porky appear in the same short, unlike "A Corny Concerto" the two do not appear onscreen at the same time in this short; Porky only appears in a mere cameo at the beginning of this short, only to be quickly replaced by Bugs.
When Bugs mentions that Porky has "a wife and six piglets" at the beginning of this short, Bugs is referring to Petunia Pig, Porky's official love interest who has been retired as an onscreen character from theatrical cartoons since 1939's "Naughty Neighbors".
This is the only time Porky and Sam appear in the same short, although the two do not appear onscreen at the same time.
This is the final short featuring Bugs and Sam together during the Golden Age of American Animation.
This short is also the last official appearance of Yosemite Sam in the Golden Age. However, Pancho Vanilla from "Pancho's Hideaway" resembles Yosemite Sam.
Most of the scenes from this short were used for the TV special Bugs Bunny: All American Hero.
This is one of only two Yosemite Sam shorts in the Golden Age of American Animation not to be directed by Friz Freleng.
Gerry Chiniquy, however, was a longtime member of Freleng's unit which animated the short. The other short, "Hare-abian Nights", which was directed by Ken Harris of the Chuck Jones unit, was the only Yosemite Sam short which was not animated by Freleng's unit.
MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on "Toon In with Me".