Editing Duck Amuck (section)

== Reception ==
In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States [[Library of Congress]] and selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]]. This was the second of three animated shorts by Jones to receive this honor; the others are ''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' (1957) and ''[[One Froggy Evening]]'' (1955).

Animation historian [[Greg Ford]] writes, "The duck glowers directly at the camera, the eye contact always implicating us, the viewers, in the cartoon's gleeful sadism. While Mel Blanc's voice acting is masterful, writer Michael Maltese's gags are great, Maurice Noble's mismatched backgrounds are hilarious, and the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]-derived yet highly defined 'stop and start' animation executed by Ken Harris is extra crispy here, the film belongs to Chuck Jones. It's as if the misadventures that Jones customarily plunged Daffy into throughout the decade have all converged in ''Duck Amuck''."<ref>{{cite book |date=1 September 2020 |editor-last=Beck |editor-first=Jerry |title=The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons |publisher=Insight Editions |page=58 |isbn=978-1-64722-137-9}}</ref>