Russian Rhapsody is a 1944 Merrie Melodies short directed by Bob Clampett.
Plot[]
Adolf Hitler gives a rousing speech mostly consisting of mock German gibberish and a few random words inserted in, he then tells the crowd he will send the world's best pilot to bomb Moscow, someone asks "Who you Fuher?" and he replied "Eh, who else?" As he flies a bunch of gremlins (most of whom were modeled after the Warner Bros staff) invade his plane and sing a song about themselves while trashing the plane, eventually one of them pokes Hitler in the butt with a pin attached to his head he leaps out of his chair screaming, when he lands on of the ground he comes face to face with one of the smallest ones he declares "Ack, a gremlin from the Kremlin!" and it replies "How do you do?" and bops him on the nose with a mallet somehow knocking him out, the others stick his nose into an electrical socket causing him to transform into various things during the electrocution a jackass, a skunk, and a swastika, after Hitler recovers from this he chases them with a knife until one of them puts on a Joseph Stalin mask causing him to scream like a little girl, they then knock him out and saw the platform around him causing him to fall out of the plane, they chase him with the plane as he falls and shred the seat of his pants, he hides under a tree for cover and they drop the plane on top of him causing a massive explosion the tail of the plane marking his tombstone, they then sing about their victory. When a disheveled Hitler suddenly pops up out of the ground doing a Lew Lehr impression saying, "Nazis is the cwaziest peoples" one of them pounds him into the ground with a mallet burying him.
Caricatures[]
- Adolf Hitler
- Artie Auerbach - "Who else?"
- Billy Gray - "I'm only three-and-a-half years old."
- Bert Gordon - "How do you do?"
- Joseph Stalin
- Lew Lehr - "Nutzies is the cwaziest peoples!"
- Jerry Colonna - as a gremlin
