War and Pieces

This article is about the Looney Tunes cartoon. For other uses, see War and Pieces (disambiguation).

1964 film

War and Pieces

Directed by| Chuck Jones
Maurice Noble
(co-director)
Story by| John Dunn
Produced by| David H. DePatie
(uncredited)
Starring| Paul Julian
(uncredited)
Music by| Bill Lava
Animation by| Ken Harris
Richard Thompson
Bob Bransford
Tom Ray
Layouts by| Dave Rose
Backgrounds by| Philip DeGuard
Color process| Technicolor

Production
company

Warner Bros. Cartoons

Distributed by| Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date

* June 6, 1964 (1964-06-06)

Running time

| 6 minutes

War and Pieces is a 1964 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated short directed by Chuck Jones.[1] The short was released on June 6, 1964, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[2] It was the last Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones until 1979's Freeze Frame.

The title is a pun on the Leo Tolstoy novel War and Peace.

## Plot

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1\. Wile E. Coyote (Caninus nervous rex) attempts to hurl a hand grenade at Road Runner (Burn-em upus asphaltus), but it rebounds off a saguaro, and explodes on the Coyote. He walks away, planning his next scheme.

2\. Wile E. is at another cliff, attempting to use a bow with a pulley to shoot himself at the Road Runner, with his tail being tied by a rope attached to the pulley. The pulley rope then rips the lower part of his hide off, exposing him in his underwear, and with him hanging onto the bow until it breaks. He then lands feet first on a large rock just a bit down the bottom of the cliff. Wile E. walks off in relief, until the rock breaks and falls down to the ground, taking Wile E. with it.

3\. Wile E. attempts to use a hydraulic press activated by an electric eye, when the Road Runner attempts to run through the light at the eye, the hydraulic presses can crush him after he passes. The Road Runner stops in front of the eye. The Coyote gets impatient and runs at the Road Runner, but the Road Runner walks through the eye, activating the hydraulic presses, flattening Wile E.

4\. Wile E. paints himself with ACME Invisible Paint. He hears the Road Runner beeping, jumps onto the road, but the beeps were from a truck, which runs over the Coyote. Wile E. staggers off a cliff into a pond. The splash causes Wile E. to be visible again, and he lies down on the sea floor, injured. A fish swims by and looks at him, but the Coyote shoos it away by showing a "GET LOST!" sign at the fish.

5\. Wile E. uses a double-barreled shotgun as a look-through attraction called "Secrets of a Harem". The Road Runner looks through the holes of the shotgun while turning a handle, while Wile E. prepares to fire the shotgun. The Road Runner, however, seems to be enjoying an actual peep show. Wile E. pushes him away to see for himself, only for the shotgun to fire into his face.

6\. Wile E. throws a grappling hook with a rope straight up at the cliff. The hook gets caught on something, and the Coyote climbs the rope. The hook is not caught on a cliff, but a cloud above, the hook lets go of the cloud and tears it open, causing lightning to strike the Coyote, who slides down to the ground.

7\. The Coyote rides a rocket up the cliff, but the shape of the cliff causes the rocket to go the wrong way and sends the Coyote into the ground. After barreling underground, he ends up in China, where he meets a Chinese Road Runner wearing a conical hat and Chinese wooden slippers. The Coyote attempts to catch him, but the Chinese Road Runner subdues him with a gong. The Coyote falls back down the hole toward the desert. He flies up the hole and falls face first to the ground. The Chinese Road Runner pops his head out of the hole and ends the cartoon with a "Beep-beep!" noise with Chinese characters, which translate "The End, old Chinese proverb".

## Crew

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* Co-Director: Maurice Noble
* Story: John Dunn
* Animation: Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford & Tom Ray
* Layouts: Dave Rose
* Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard
* Film Editor: Treg Brown
* Music: Bill Lava
* Produced by David H. DePatie
* Directed by Chuck Jones

## References

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1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 348\. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 128–129. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

## External links

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* War and Pieces at IMDb

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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in animation

Short films|

| 1940s|

* Fast and Furry-ous (1949)

|

1950s|

* Operation: Rabbit (1952; Coyote only)
* Beep, Beep (1952)
* Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
* Zipping Along (1953)
* Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
* Sheep Ahoy (1954; cameo, Coyote only)
* Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955)
* Guided Muscle (1955)
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
* There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)
* To Hare Is Human (1956; Coyote only)
* Scrambled Aches (1957)
* Zoom and Bored (1957)
* Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958)
* Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
* Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
* Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
* Wild About Hurry (1959)

1960s|

* Fastest with the Mostest (1960)
* Rabbit's Feat (1960; Coyote only)
* Hopalong Casualty (1960)
* Zip 'N Snort (1961)
* Lickety-Splat (1961)
* Compressed Hare (1961; Coyote only)
* Beep Prepared (1961)
* Adventures of the Road Runner (1962)
* Zoom at the Top (1962)
* Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963; Coyote only)
* To Beep or Not to Beep (1963)
* War and Pieces (1964)
* Zip Zip Hooray! (1965)
* Road Runner a Go-Go (1965)
* The Wild Chase (1965)
* Rushing Roulette (1965)
* Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965)
* Tired and Feathered (1965)
* Boulder Wham! (1965)
* Just Plane Beep (1965)
* Hairied and Hurried (1965)
* Highway Runnery (1965)
* Chaser on the Rocks (1965)
* Shot and Bothered (1966)
* Out and Out Rout (1966)
* The Solid Tin Coyote (1966)
* Clippety Clobbered (1966)
* Sugar and Spies (1966)

1970s|

* Freeze Frame (1979)

1980s|

* Soup or Sonic (1980)

1990s|

* Chariots of Fur (1994)

2000s|

* Little Go Beep (2000)
* The Whizzard of Ow (2003)

2010s|

* Coyote Falls (2010)
* Fur of Flying (2010)
* Rabid Rider (2010)
* Flash in the Pain (2014)

Feature films|

| Theatrical|

* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979; archive footage)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; cameo)
* Space Jam (1996)
* Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
* Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

|

Direct-to-video|

* Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo, Coyote only)
* Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006; cameo)

Unreleased|

* Coyote vs. Acme

TV series|

* The Road Runner Show (1966–1972)
* Baby Looney Tunes (2002–2005)
* The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013)
* New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
* Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2024)
* Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present)
* Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023–present)

TV specials|

* Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972)
* Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1976)
* Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
* The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980; Coyote only)

* v
* t
* e

Chuck Jones

Short subjects|

| 1930s|

* The Night Watchman (1938)
* Dog Gone Modern (1939)
* Robin Hood Makes Good (1939)
* Prest-O Change-O (1939)
* Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)
* Naughty but Mice (1939)
* Old Glory (1939)
* Snowman's Land (1939)
* Little Brother Rat (1939)
* The Little Lion Hunter (1939)
* The Good Egg (1939)
* Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939)
* The Curious Puppy (1939)

|

1940s|

* Mighty Hunters (1940)
* Elmer's Candid Camera (1940)
* Sniffles Takes a Trip (1940)
* Tom Thumb in Trouble (1940)
* The Egg Collector (1940)
* Ghost Wanted (1940)
* Stage Fright (1940)
* Good Night Elmer (1940)
* Bedtime for Sniffles (1940)
* Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
* Sniffles Bells the Cat (1941)
* Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941)
* Porky's Ant (1941)
* Toy Trouble (1941)
* Porky's Prize Pony (1941)
* Inki and the Lion (1941)
* Snow Time for Comedy (1941)
* The Brave Little Bat (1941)
* Saddle Silly (1941)
* Porky's Midnight Matinee (1941)
* The Bird Came C.O.D. (1942)
* Porky's Cafe (1942)
* Conrad the Sailor (1942)
* Dog Tired (1942)
* The Draft Horse (1942)
* Hold the Lion, Please (1942)
* The Squawkin' Hawk (1942)
* Fox Pop (1942)
* The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942)
* My Favorite Duck (1942)
* Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
* To Duck or Not to Duck (1943)
* Flop Goes the Weasel (1943)
* Super-Rabbit (1943)
* The Unbearable Bear (1943)
* The Aristo-Cat (1943)
* Coming!! Snafu (1943)
* Wackiki Wabbit (1943)
* Spies (1943)
* The Infantry Blues (1943)
* Fin'n Catty (1943)
* Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)
* Point Rationing of Foods (1943)
* Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
* Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
* Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike (1944)
* The Weakly Reporter (1944)
* A Lecture on Camouflage (1944)
* Going Home (1944, unreleased)
* Gas (1944)
* Angel Puss (1944)
* Outpost (1944)
* From Hand to Mouse (1944)
* Lost and Foundling (1944)
* Hell-Bent for Election (1944)
* Odor-able Kitty (1945)
* Private Snafu in The Aleutians—Isles of Enchantment (Oh Brother!) (1945)
* Trap Happy Porky (1945)
* It's Murder She Says (1945)
* Hare Conditioned (1945)
* Fresh Airedale (1945)
* No Buddy Atoll (1945)
* Hare Tonic (1945)
* Secrets of the Caribbean (1945)
* Quentin Quail (1946)
* Hush My Mouse (1946)
* Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
* Fair and Worm-er (1946)
* Roughly Squeaking (1946)
* Scent-imental Over You (1947)
* Inki at the Circus (1947)
* A Pest in the House (1947)
* House Hunting Mice (1947)
* Little Orphan Airedale (1947)
* A Feather in His Hare (1948)
* What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948)
* Rabbit Punch (1948)
* Haredevil Hare (1948)
* You Were Never Duckier (1948)
* Daffy Dilly (1948)
* My Bunny Lies over the Sea (1948)
* Scaredy Cat (1948)
* So Much for So Little (1949)
* Awful Orphan (1949)
* Mississippi Hare (1949)
* Mouse Wreckers (1949)
* The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949)
* Long-Haired Hare (1949)
* Often an Orphan (1949)
* Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
* Frigid Hare (1949)
* For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)
* Bear Feat (1949)
* Rabbit Hood (1949)

1950s|

* The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
* The Ducksters (1950)
* Dog Gone South (1950)
* 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
* The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950)
* Homeless Hare (1950)
* Caveman Inki (1950)
* Rabbit of Seville (1950)
* Two's A Crowd (1950)
* Bunny Hugged (1951)
* Scent-imental Romeo (1951)
* A Hound for Trouble (1951)
* Rabbit Fire (1951)
* Chow Hound (1951)
* The Wearing of the Grin (1951)
* Cheese Chasers (1951)
* A Bear for Punishment (1951)
* Drip-Along Daffy (1951)
* Operation: Rabbit (1952)
* Feed the Kitty (1952)
* Little Beau Pepé (1952)
* Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
* Beep, Beep (1952)
* The Hasty Hare (1952)
* Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)
* Mouse-Warming (1952)
* Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
* Terrier Stricken (1952)
* Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952)
* Don't Give Up the Sheep (1953)
* Forward March Hare (1953)
* Kiss Me Cat (1953)
* Duck Amuck (1953)
* Much Ado About Nutting (1953)
* Wild Over You (1953)
* Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
* Bully for Bugs (1953)
* Zipping Along (1953)
* Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)
* Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
* Punch Trunk (1953)
* Feline Frame-Up (1954)
* No Barking (1954)
* The Cat's Bah (1954)
* Claws for Alarm (1954)
* Bewitched Bunny (1954)
* Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)
* From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954)
* My Little Duckaroo (1954)
* Sheep Ahoy (1954)
* Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
* Beanstalk Bunny (1955)
* Ready, Set, Zoom! (1955)
* Past Perfumance (1955)
* Rabbit Rampage (1955)
* Double or Mutton (1955)
* Jumpin' Jupiter (1955)
* Knight-mare Hare (1955)
* Two Scent's Worth (1955)
* Guided Muscle (1955)
* One Froggy Evening (1955)
* 90 Day Wondering (1956)
* Bugs' Bonnets (1956)
* Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
* Rocket Squad (1956)
* Heaven Scent (1956)
* Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (1956)
* Barbary Coast Bunny (1956)
* Rocket-Bye Baby (1956)
* Deduce, You Say! (1956)
* There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)
* To Hare Is Human (1956)
* Scrambled Aches (1957)
* Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
* Go Fly a Kit (1957)
* Boyhood Daze (1957)
* Steal Wool (1957)
* What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
* Zoom and Bored (1957)
* Touché and Go (1957)
* Drafty, Isn't It? (1957)
* Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
* Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)
* Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958)
* To Itch His Own (1958)
* Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
* Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
* Cat Feud (1958)
* Baton Bunny (1959)
* Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
* Wild About Hurry (1959)

1960s|

* Fastest with the Mostest (1960)
* Who Scent You? (1960)
* Rabbit's Feat (1960)
* Ready, Woolen and Able (1960)
* Hopalong Casualty (1960)
* High Note (1960)
* Zip 'N Snort (1961)
* The Mouse on 57th Street (1961)
* The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961)
* Lickety-Splat (1961)
* A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961)
* Compressed Hare (1961)
* Beep Prepared (1961)
* Nelly's Folly (1961)
* A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
* Zoom at the Top (1962)
* Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962)
* Martian Through Georgia (1962)
* I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963)
* Now Hear This (1963)
* Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
* Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
* Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
* To Beep or Not to Beep (1963)
* Tom and Jerry (cartoon shorts, 1963–1967)
* War and Pieces (1964)
* The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
* The Bear That Wasn't (1967)

1980s|

* Spaced Out Bunny (1980)
* Soup or Sonic (1980)

1990s|

* Chariots of Fur (1994)
* Another Froggy Evening (1995)
* Superior Duck (1996)
* Pullet Surprise (1997)
* From Hare to Eternity (1997)
* Father of the Bird (1997)

Television
specials|

* How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
* The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969)
* Horton Hears a Who! (1970)
* The Cat in the Hat (1971)
* The Cricket in Times Square (1973)
* A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
* Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975)
* The White Seal (1975)
* Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
* Mowgli's Brothers (1976)
* Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976)
* A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978)
* Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978)
* Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
* Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)
* Daffy Duck’s Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
* A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
* Peter and the Wolf (1995)

Feature films|

* Gay Purr-ee (1962, screenplay)
* The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, animation consultant)
* Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, animation sequences)
* Stay Tuned (1992, animation sequence)
* Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, animation supervisor)

Television series|

* The Bugs Bunny Show (1960-1962, new animated sequences)
* Off to See the Wizard (1967-1968, animated sequences)
* Curiosity Shop (1971-1972)

Books|

* Daffy Duck for President (1997)

Characters|

* Bugs Bunny
* Charlie Dog
* Claude Cat
* Daffy Duck
* Elmer Fudd
* Gossamer
* Henery Hawk
* Hubie and Bertie
* Marc Antony and Pussyfoot
* Marvin the Martian
* Michigan J. Frog
* Nasty Canasta
* Penelope Pussycat
* Pepé Le Pew
* Porky Pig
* Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
* Sniffles
* The Three Bears
* Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
* Witch Hazel

Other works|

* Chuck Amuck: The Movie
* Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens – A Life in Animation

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