Bunco Busters

. . . BUNK COAL BUSTERS to television's DRAGNET or cinema's RACKET SQUAD. In reality, one of the animators told my great, great grandfather that the template for BUNK COAL BUSTERS was the 1948 Bogart classic, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MAD DRAW. One of the dead giveaways that this is the Gospel Truth is when Buzz retorts to Woody: "Badgers? Badgers?! We don't need no stinking badgers!!" Furthermore, the Trench Coat Man who keeps turning up like wooden nickel is a dead ringer for Bogart, who continually pesters prosperous-looking pedestrians, "Buddy, can you spare a dime for a fellow American down on his luck?" Finally, the ending of this TREASURE remake is a virtual shot-for-shot reprise of SIERRA's close.