Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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| Directed by | Robert Zemeckis (live-action) Richard Williams (animation) |
| Produced by | Frank Marshall Robert Watts |
| Written by | Gary K. Wolf (novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?) Jeffery Price & Peter S. Seaman (screenplay) |
| Starring | Bob Hoskins Christopher Lloyd Joanna Cassidy Charles Fleischer Kathleen Turner David L. Lander Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Editing by | Arthur Schmidt |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
| Release date(s) | June 24, 1988 USA CAN |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$70,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $329,803,958 (worldwide) |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 film produced by Amblin Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company (released on its Touchstone Pictures banner) which blends traditional animation and live action. Based on the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the film is set in a fictionalized version of 1947 Los Angeles, where animated characters (always referred to as "Toons") are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons.
At $70 million, Roger Rabbit was one of the most expensive films to date at the time of its release, considering its budget was $31 million.[1] The film proved a sound investment, earning over $150 million in North America alone during its original theatrical release. The film is notable for featuring characters from several competing animation studios in a single film, and for being one of the last appearances by Golden Age voice artists Mel Blanc and Mae Questel. The film won four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards ceremony in 1989.
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[edit] Plot
The movie opens as production of a Baby Herman short subject – which in the realm of this film is "live action" slapstick – ends when Roger Rabbit blows his lines for the 23rd time. Roger plays the supporting comic foil to cartoon star Baby Herman (a baby physically but chronologically a cantankerous 50 year old man). In the movie's milieu, cartoon characters are a sapient species cohabiting alongside human beings, though unlike them, "Toons," as they are called, are not bound by the laws of physics. A section of Los Angeles has been designated as "Toontown" and is inhabited exclusively by the Toons.
In an effort to discover why Roger cannot keep his mind on his work, studio boss R. K. Maroon, owner of Maroon Cartoons, hires washed-up, alcoholic private detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) to investigate. However, Valiant harbors a deep bitterness toward Toons and refuses to set foot in Toontown, since his brother Teddy was killed by a Toon years earlier.
He quickly obtains photographic evidence that Marvin Acme, the owner of the Acme Company and of Toontown, and Roger's wife, Jessica Rabbit, a sexy Toon femme fatale (speaking voice by Kathleen Turner, singing voice by Amy Irving, neither of whom was credited), have been (literally) playing pattycake together. This is tantamount to infidelity in the eyes of a Toon.
A devastated Roger attacks Valiant when shown the evidence, making it clear he will win his wife back, before running away. The next morning, Acme is found murdered, with all signs pointing to Roger as the culprit. At the crime scene, Valiant first meets Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) of the Toontown District Superior Court and his Toon Patrol henchmen, a group of weasels named Smart Ass, Greasy, Psycho, Stupid, and Wheezy. Doom has no reservations about dispensing draconian justice, which he demonstrates by submerging a wayward Toon shoe in “The Dip,” a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzene. This concoction dissolves Toons on contact and can kill them within seconds.
Returning to his office/apartment, Valiant finds Baby Herman waiting for him. Herman insists that Roger is innocent and that Acme had promised to leave Toontown to the Toons in his will, which has since gone missing. Valiant dismisses this claim, but changes his mind upon re-examining the photos he took. Before he can investigate further, he finds Roger hiding from the police in the office and is reluctantly dragged into the case. After hiding Roger at the bar where his sometime girlfriend Dolores works, he encounters Jessica, who tells him that she allowed herself to be seen playing pattycake with Acme. Maroon had threatened to ruin Roger's career if she did not cooperate.
Dolores informs Valiant that if the missing will is not found by midnight, a company called Cloverleaf Industries will be able to buy Toontown. Valiant and Roger flee the area, with the help of Roger’s friend Benny the Cab, after Roger’s antics in the bar nearly lead to his execution at the hands of Doom and the weasels. While hiding out in a movie theater with Roger and Dolores, Valiant recalls Teddy's death: a Toon with “burning red eyes” and a “high squeaky voice” dropped a piano on the brothers after robbing a bank. Up until this point, Valiant had enjoyed working in Toontown and taking cases that involved Toons. He apologizes to Roger for mistreating him and makes up with Dolores; on the way out, he hears a newsreel item that proves to be a vital clue involving R. K. Maroon.
Valiant goes to the studio office and interrogates Maroon, who admits to having set up a blackmail scheme to force Acme to sell Toontown to Cloverleaf so he could sell the studio as well. Before he can implicate anyone else, he is shot and killed from outside the window. Thinking the shooter to be Jessica Rabbit, playing Roger for a patsy, Valiant chases the assassin all the way into Toontown, overcoming his long-standing avoidance of the place. Here he discovers from Jessica that the assassin was actually Doom, who also murdered Acme.
Benny shows up to help them chase Doom back into the human world, but a puddle of Dip dumped in the road causes him to lose control and crash into a light pole. Valiant and Jessica are taken captive, while Roger later finds Benny and the two go after Doom in Eddie’s car. At the Acme warehouse, Roger gains entry only to be caught when Greasy drops a ton of bricks on him.
With Valiant, Roger, and Jessica captured, Doom reveals his master plan. As sole stockholder of Cloverleaf, he is buying up properties along a proposed freeway route, including Toontown and the Maroon Cartoons studio, for commercial development. Doom has also purchased the Pacific Electric Railway (nicknamed "the Red Car") in order to shut it down so that people will have to use the freeway and his businesses. (This storyline is based on the General Motors streetcar conspiracy, an alleged effort to dismantle public transportation systems throughout the U.S.)
To wipe out Roger, Jessica, and Toontown, Doom has built a vehicle that can spray thousands of gallons of Dip. Valiant buys the couple some time by performing a slapstick comedy routine, drawing on his past experience as a circus clown, that causes all the weasels but Smart Ass to literally die of laughter. Smart Ass meets his end when Valiant kicks him in the crotch, launching him into the Dip tank.
As Psycho’s soul rises to heaven, he aims the Dip cannon back toward Roger and Jessica, putting them in danger once again. Valiant diverts it away temporarily, but Doom attacks him and a fight ensues. Doom is flattened by a steamroller but peels himself up off the floor, revealing himself to be a Toon; his true red eyes and high voice also give him away as Teddy Valiant’s murderer.
Doom quickly gains the upper hand by turning his limbs into a variety of Toon weapons. Just as he is about to end the fight, though, Valiant grabs a spring-loaded boxing-glove mallet and uses it to open the drain valve on the Dip tank. The flood of solvents obliterates Doom’s Toon body, leaving only his clothes and the rubber mask he wore to hide his identity. The empty vehicle crashes through the warehouse wall and into Toontown, but is immediately hit by a train and destroyed.
After Valiant washes the Dip away and frees Roger and Jessica, the police and a crowd of Toons arrive. Roger’s name is cleared and the murders of Acme, Maroon, and Teddy are closed. Acme’s will finally turns up, the words suddenly appearing on a blank sheet of paper that Roger had used to write a love letter to Jessica the night he found out about the pattycake incident. (Acme had written the will using “Disappearing Re-Appearing Ink” and given it to her for safekeeping, but she discarded it, thinking it blank.) Toontown is officially bequeathed to the Toons, who break into a chorus of “Smile, Darn Ya, Smile” in celebration, and Valiant regains his long-lost sense of humor.
[edit] Production
[edit] Filming
The live-action sequences were directed by Robert Zemeckis. Interior scenes were partly filmed at Cannon Elstree film studios in Hertfordshire, England. Many of the outdoor scenes were filmed in Los Angeles. The block of "Hollywood Boulevard" where Eddie's office and the Red Car terminal sat were constructed from extant buildings on Hope Street between 11th Street and 12th Street in downtown Los Angeles, though the interiors were located in England. Other filming locations included the Hyperion Avenue bridge and the Ren-Mar Studios on Cahuenga Boulevard (standing in for the Maroon Cartoon studios). The "Red Cars" seen in the film were fabricated for the film and were powered by diesel engines, not by power lines.
Though Disney was the studio behind the film, the animated sequences were mostly done in London because Richard Williams refused to work in Los Angeles.[2] The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy and the voice of Charles Fleischer. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, and the music was composed by perennial Zemeckis film composer Alan Silvestri and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
As many as 100 separate pieces of film were optically combined to incorporate the animated and live-action elements. The animated characters themselves were hand-drawn without computer animation; analogue optical effects were used for adding shadows and lighting to the Toons to give them a more "realistic," three-dimensional appearance. This being before reliable computer effects were developed, a human operator could not be digitally "erased" from a scene, and all physical effects had to be done mechanically, using the "Toons" to cover the rods, wires and other machinery.
Since the animated Roger was added in post-production, Bob Hoskins was effectively acting against empty air during the shooting of his many scenes with Roger. In order to facilitate Hoskins' performance, Roger’s voice actor Charles Fleischer (dressed in a Roger bunny suit) stood in for Roger in some scenes.
Much of the cinematography and several scenes of the film are a homage to Roman Polanski's Chinatown. Chinatown's screenwriter, Robert Towne, had intended to write a trilogy, but it never materialized. One planned installment was a drama called Cloverleaf, with the plot revolving around the creation of the freeway network and the decline of the Red Cars. Probably one of the most obvious references is the scene in which Roger is shown the pictures of his wife cheating on him, which is very similar to the opening scene in Polanski's film. Also J.J. Gittes in Chinatown and Eddie Valiant are both pastiches of the same stock character, that of the hard-boiled private detective. Both plots involve a corrupt establishment and a femme fatale whose intentions are at first unclear to the protagonist and viewer.
[edit] Rating
The film was rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for Mild Profanity and Cartoon Violence.
[edit] Release
[edit] International premieres
- October 18, 1988: France
- October 27, 1988: West Germany
- November 17, 1988: Netherlands
- November 24, 1988: Australia
- November 25, 1988: Spain
- December 2, 1988: Italy, Sweden and U.K.
- December 7, 1988: Colombia
- December 15, 1988: Norway
- December 16, 1988: Denmark and Finland
- December 22, 1988: Argentina
- December 24, 1988: Japan
[edit] Critical reaction
Roger Rabbit opened to generally positive reviews on June 24, 1988. Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert included the film on their lists of ten favorite films of 1988, with Ebert calling it "sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last - a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration" [1]. The film currently has a 100% "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[citation needed]
[edit] Academy Awards
The movie received 6 Academy Award nominations.
Winner of 4 Oscars:
- Best Film Editing — Arthur Schmidt
- Sound Effects Editing — Charles L.Campbell, Louis L.Edemann
- Best Visual Effects — Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones, George Gibbs
- Academy Special Achievement Award — to Richard Williams For The Animation Direction.
3 additional nominations:
- Best Art Direction — Elliot Scott, Peter Howitt (Dangerous Liaisons won)
- Best Cinematography — Dean Cundey (Mississippi Burning won)
- Best Sound — Robert Knudsen, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo, Tony Dawe (Bird won)
[edit] Controversies and Easter eggs
Several Easter eggs were hidden in the film by its animators. Tape-based analog video such as VHS did not reveal these, but technologies with better image quality, such as the analog laserdisc, were said to reveal the phone number of then Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Also, when Benny the Cab wrecks at night and Eddie and Jessica roll out, there are two separate frames (2170-2172 on side 4 of the CAV laserdisc version), within two seconds of each other, showing a blurry shot of what seems to be her with no underwear. Disney recalled the laserdisc and issued another disc, later claiming that it was an incorrectly painted cel. Disney also stated that the cel in question could be seen on the new disc and on the VHS version.
Two DVD versions edit the scene where Jessica Rabbit rolls out of the cab after Benny the Cab crashes. The 1999 DVD version reanimated the scene so that Jessica is wearing white panties underneath her dress. When the DVD set was reissued in 2002, the scene was reanimated so that a piece of Jessica's skirt strategically covers Jessica as she rolls down the hill.
Just before Eddie falls off the building, the words "For Good Times, call Allyson 'Wonderland'" can be seen on the wall behind him.
A brief scene consisting of the toon Baby Herman passing by a female (human) extra on the set of the opening cartoon and sticking his middle finger up her dress, and then coming back from under the dress with a drool of spit on his lip. This was edited out of the first DVD edition of the movie, though it can be found on editions of the VHS, laserdisc, and DVD issues.
In the sequence where Bob Hoskins is seen falling an incredibly long distance flanked by Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, Bugs at one point does a finger twiddle with the hand holding his carrot. For one frame in the middle of this, animator Dave Spafford deliberately drew Bugs as flipping Mickey off, and requested that the animator working on Mickey respond with a shocked expression.
Gary Wolf, author of the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, corresponded with many fans of the film through written letters and the Internet, compiling an exhaustive listing of the many hidden "easter eggs" in the film and in the later Roger Rabbit short films. Wolf also sued Disney in 2001 for unpaid earnings related to the film.
In the piano duel scene with Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, Daffy says "I've worked with a lot of wise-quackers, but you are despicable." and, according to some, Donald replies, in his kazoo-like voice, "God damn stupid nigger...." Snopes, a noted debunking website, debunks this with the closed-captioning which records Donald as saying "Goddurn stubborn nitwit," though Snopes actually believes he's saying something akin to his typical exclamation, "Doggone stubborn little...That did it...waaa-aaaghghgh!" as is heard in many old Disney cartoons. The Vista Series DVD release uses the latter quote in its closed-captioning. [3]
[edit] Legacy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is seen as a landmark film that sparked the most recent era in American animation. The field of animation had suffered a recession during the 1970s and 1980s, to the point where even giants in the field such as The Walt Disney Company were considering giving up on major animated productions. This expensive film (production cost of $70 million - a staggering amount for the time) was a major risk for the company, but one that paid off handsomely. It inspired other studios to dive back into the field of animation; it also made animation acceptable with the movie-going public. After Roger Rabbit, interest in the history of animation exploded, and such legends in the field as Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Ralph Bakshi were seen in a new light and received credit and acclaim from audiences worldwide. It also provided the impetus for Disney and Warner Brothers' later animated television shows such as Darkwing Duck, Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures.
The film featured the last major voice role for two legendary cartoon voice artists: Mel Blanc (voicing Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and also Sylvester in a one-line cameo) and Mae Questel (voicing Betty Boop, but not Olive Oyl, who did not appear in the film). Blanc (who would shortly thereafter pass away at the age of 81) did not do Yosemite Sam's voice in the movie, done instead by Joe Alaskey. (Blanc had admitted that in his later years he was no longer able to do the "yelling" voices such as Sam's, which were very rough on his vocal cords in old age. There was a Foghorn Leghorn scene recorded, but cut, which also utilised Alaskey for the same reason.) Blanc also does Porky Pig, who gets the last line of the film, dressed as a police officer.
The film was also the next-to-last screen appearance for veteran actors Alan Tilvern, who portrays R.K. Maroon in the film, and Stubby Kaye, who plays Marvin Acme. Tilvern appeared in only one other production before his retirement, the 1993 television version of Porgy and Bess, in which he played the non-singing role of the Detective. Alan Tilvern died in 2003. Stubby Kaye, best known for playing Nicely Nicely Johnson in the original stage and screen versions of Guys and Dolls, died in 1997.
Despite being produced by Disney (in association with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment), Roger Rabbit also marked the first (and to date, only) time that characters from several animation studios (including Universal, Walter Lantz Studios, Paramount Pictures, Fleischer Studios, MGM (though the characters are owned by Turner Entertainment since 1986), Republic and Warner Bros.) appeared in one film. This allowed the first-ever meetings between Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse. A contract was signed between Disney and Warner stating that their respective icons, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, would each receive exactly the same amount of "air time" (they also had the same number of lines). This is why the script has Bugs, Mickey, and Eddie together in one scene falling from a skyscraper. (However, Bugs Bunny can be seen for a second in the studio lot near the beginning of the film, and Mickey has a second of free time before Bugs arrives.) Also the speakeasy scene features the first and only meeting of Daffy Duck and Donald Duck performing a unique dueling piano act. Finally the unique pairing is given a final send off at the end of the film when Porky Pig faces the audience and says the traditional Warner Brothers animation closing line, "That's All, Folks!" just before Tinker Bell appears to tap the scene in the traditional Disney ending manner.
Eventually, several additional animated shorts featuring Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and Droopy would be released.
In 1991, the Disney Imagineers began to develop a new land for the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, completely based on the Toontown of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Mickey's Toontown opened in 1993 and spawned "Toontown" (without the Mickey's prefix) at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. The Californian and Japanese Toontowns feature a ride based on Roger Rabbit's adventures, called Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.
The film was referenced in the 2000 film, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, which has some elements similar to Roger Rabbit. Benny the Cab and the Toon Patrol were featured as guests on Disney's House of Mouse.
[edit] Prequel
A prequel entitled Roger Rabbit II: Toon Platoon was planned in 1992. Set in 1940, the script had Roger expose the manager of the radio station that Jessica works at as a Nazi spy. However, having made Schindler's List, Spielberg rejected making a film with cartoonish Nazis in it. Who Discovered Roger Rabbit was being written in 1994 by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, which focused on Roger looking for his mother during the Great Depression. Alan Menken volunteered to serve as executive producer and wrote five songs for what was conceived as a parody of classic Hollywood musicals. (One of the songs, "This Only Happens in the Movies," was recorded in 2008 on the debut album of Broadway actress Kerry Butler.)[4] Walt Disney Pictures was planning to create the cartoon characters with computer animation. Michael Eisner pulled the project in 1999 when the budget rose to over $100 million, believing a prequel to a film made twelve years before would not be successful.[5] In December 2007, Frank Marshall told MTV that he was willing to revive development of the film.[6]
[edit] Merchandising
The success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit led to a moderate degree of merchandising for the film. In October 1989, McDonald's made a Halloween themed certificate offer for a free VHS copy of the film as well as a Roger Rabbit doll. Other memorabilia included cookie jars, Christmas ornaments, music boxes, snow globes, pinback buttons, three videogames, and a novelization of the film. While much of the merchandise was produced throughout the 1988–89 promotion of the film, other items would later be offered as commemorative collectibles in celebration of Disney-related anniversaries.
In 1989, Marvel Comics commissioned a special graphic novel as a novelization in comic-book form. The novel featured several ideas for the plot scrapped from the original film, such as Roger and Eddie actually making a getaway in Dooms' squad car (until the engine blows up after Roger constantly hammers the pedals), as well as the deleted Pighead sequence featured on the Laserdisc version of the DVD releases (as well as on its first broadcast on CBS). Today, these Graphic novels are collectors' items due to their rarity. A follow up Graphic Novel titled Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom was also published, which was later continued by Disney Comics with their own Roger Rabbit comic-book series, which lasted 18 issues.
[edit] Animated characters
[edit] Main cartoon characters
These characters were all created for and made their first appearances in the film.
- Roger Rabbit
- Jessica Rabbit
- Baby Herman
- Benny The Cab
- Judge Doom (mostly appears in live human form, but in the end appears to be an unknown Toon posing in fake, but live props)
- The Toon Patrol
- Bongo, the Ape Bouncer of the Ink & Paint Club
[edit] Cartoon characters that make cameo appearances
These characters had all appeared in either film or cartoon shorts made by various studios.
[edit] Disney
- Mickey Mouse
- Minnie Mouse
- Donald Duck
- Daisy Duck
- Goofy
- Pluto
- Pete
- Horace Horsecollar
- Clarabelle Cow
- Clara Cluck
- Peter Pig
- Toby Tortoise
- Brer Bear, Hummingbirds, and Sis Moles from Song of the South.
- Dumbo, the Crows, Mrs. Jumbo, and Casey Junior from Dumbo
- Various Fantasia characters: broomsticks from The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia premiere, Hyacinch Hippo and Madame Upanova ostrich from Dance of the Hours, and cherubs and Pegasus from The Pastoral Symphony
- Jose Carioca from Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros
- Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, and The Queen (appearing as the Witch)
- Pinocchio
- Jiminy Cricket
- Bambi from Bambi
- Piglet form The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh* (as a silhouette)
- Pongo from One Hundred and One Dalmatians*
- The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs
- The Reluctant Dragon
- The Singing Harp and Willie the Giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk
- Bill, the lizard with a ladder,Tweedledum, & Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland*
- Maleficent's goons from Sleeping Beauty*
- Mr. Toad and Cyril Proudbottom from The Wind in the Willows
- The penguin waiters from Disney's Mary Poppins*
- Peter from the Peter and the Wolf
- Tinker Bell* from Peter Pan*
- Danny, the sheep from So Dear to My Heart*
- The orphans from Orphan's Benefit
- Ferdinand The Bull
- Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin
- Elmer Elephant
- Chicken Little
[edit] Warner Bros.
- Bugs Bunny
- Daffy Duck
- Elmer Fudd (in a brief head-shot near the movie's end)
- Porky Pig
- The Road Runner*
- Wile E. Coyote*
- Yosemite Sam
- Speedy Gonzales*
- Tweety Bird
- Sylvester
- Foghorn Leghorn
- Marvin the Martian*
- The Do-Do Bird from Porky in Wackyland
- Sam Sheepdog*
- Michigan J. Frog*
- Hector the Bulldog
[edit] MGM
- Droopy Dog
- Screwy Squirrel is mentioned
[edit] Paramount Pictures/Fleischer Studios
- Betty Boop
- Koko the Clown
- Joker, the harlequin jack-in-the-box logo for Noveltoons from No Mutton Fer Nuttin' and Little Red School Mouse
[edit] Walter Lantz
- Woody Woodpecker
- Andy Panda
- Chilly Willy* and Dinky Doodle are mentioned
[edit] Deleted Characters
Some other characters were scripted to appear in the final script, but the rights to the characters could not be obtained in time, although a photo of Felix the Cat shaking hands with R.K. Maroon can be seen in Maroon's office when he first hires Eddie.
- Popeye
- Bluto
- Olive Oyl
- Little Lulu
- Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Gabby
- Felix the Cat
- Mighty Mouse
- Tom and Jerry
(*) Denotes anachronisms; these characters (or, in the cases of characters such as Tinker Bell, the animated versions of them that appear in the film) were created after 1947. But as screenplay writer Peter S. Seaman said, "The aim was entertainment, not animation history."
[edit] Cast
[edit] Human actors
| Actor | Character |
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| Bob Hoskins | Eddie Valiant |
| Christopher Lloyd | Judge Doom |
| Joanna Cassidy | Dolores |
| Alan Tilvern | R.K. Maroon |
| Stubby Kaye | Marvin Acme |
| Richard LeParmentier | Lt. Santino |
| Richard Ridings | Angelo |
| Joel Silver | Director Raoul J. Raoul |
| Eugene Guirterrez | Teddy Valiant |
| Betsy Brantley | Jessica's Performance Model |
| Paul Springer | Augie |
| Edwin Craig | Arthritic Cowboy |
| Lindsay Holiday | Soldier |
| Mike Edmonds | Stretch |
| Morgan Deare | Editor |
| Danny Capri | Kid #1 |
| Christopher Hollosy | Kid #2 |
| John-Paul Sipla | Kid #3 |
| Joel Cutrara | Forensic #1 |
| Billy J. Mitchell | Forensic #2 |
| Eric B. Sindon | Mailman |
| Ed Herlihy | Newscaster |
| James O'Connell | Conductor |
| Christine Hewett | Ink and Paint Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Kit Hillier | Ink and Paint Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Derek Lyons | Drunk in Bar (uncredited) |
| Ken Ralston | Judge Doom when he runs away in Toontown (uncredited) |
[edit] Toon voice actors
*While Mel Blanc was the first voice-actor for Woody Woodpecker, for the bulk of the character's original run, his voice was provided by Ben Hardaway and Grace Stafford, aka Mrs. Walter Lantz.
[edit] See also
- Great American Streetcar Scandal, the scandal that this film is partially based on (and parodies)
- Roger Rabbit, the eponymous character
- Cool World, another live-action/animated film that takes place in the same time period, but was getting very negative reviews and a box-office failure during the stiffest competition with A League Of Their Own
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit, video game for NES
[edit] References and footnotes
- "Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit". (2003). Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Vista Series [DVD]. Burbank: Buena Vista Home Video.
- Gray, Milton (1991). Cartoon Animation: Introduction to a Career. Lion's Den Publications. ISBN 0-9628444-5-4.
- Chuck Jones Conversations. Edited by Maureen Furniss. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-729-4.
- ^ Box office / business for Who Framed Roger Rabbit - IMDb
- ^ Stewart, James B DisneyWar, page 87. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 978-0-74-326709-0
- ^ http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/donald.htm
- ^ Kerry Butler's 'Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust' Set For May Release (BroadwayWorld.com)
- ^ Rich Drees. Who Delayed Roger Rabbit?. Film Buff Online. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
- ^ Shawn Adler. "‘Roger Rabbit’ Sequel Still In The Offing? Stay Tooned, Says Producer", MTV, 2007-12-11. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
[edit] External links
- Disney's official site for this film
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit at the Internet Movie Database
- Filmsite.org - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Roger Rabbit Fan Club at deviantART
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