The cartoon is one of the infamous "Censored 11" by United Artists (and currently Warner Bros.) since 1968, due to its caricature of a blackface African-American hunter. The "Censored 11" are banned from television syndication, will not be re-issued, and will not be released on home video. Public domain home video releases will be the only releases of these cartoons to the public.
Despite popular belief, this cartoon was never fully remade substituting Elmer Fudd in place of the black hunter. One of the central scenes in the film was reanimated with Elmer in the opening of the cartoon The Big Snooze (1946), but that's it.
Although Tex Avery directed this cartoon, by the time of its release, he had left the studio and Leon Schlesinger was not his biggest fan. So his credit was removed.
The hunter fills the role usually associated with Elmer Fudd; this was one of four 1941 Bugs Bunny short films which have him facing a different hunter each time. (The others were Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941), in which Bugs faced a Native American; The Heckling Hare (1941), in which Bugs faces Willoughby the Dog; and Wabbit Twouble (1941), which pits Bugs against Fudd.)
The cartoon was the final Tex Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be released, although his name does not appear in the credits.
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By what name was All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) officially released in Canada in English?
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