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Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972) was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.

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Movies Made By Frank Tashlin (104)

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win ...

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Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)

This must-have animation collection "Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl" (2010) is filled with shorts that have been released on disc before and will delight any Looney Tunes fans. Episodes include "Tick Tock Tuckered," "Nasty Quacks," C ...

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The Possum That Didn't (1972)

An animated film in which littering busybodies from the city decide that a smiling, upside down possum in the forest is frowning and they try to entertain him at movies and nightclubs in the city. ...

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The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Hay ...

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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)

Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. The supply ship carrying the beer is torpedoed and the contingent of nurses consists of ...

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The Bear That Wasn't (1967)

A bear settles down for his long winter nap, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex where nobody believes he's a bear. ...

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Caprice (1967)

Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company. ...

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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets? ...

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The Alphabet Murders (1965)

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. ...

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The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients ...

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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an atte ...

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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)

Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new computers, and an upcoming wedding. This stress leads to a big mistake -- the accidental approval of a credit card for mobster Foots Pulardos, who is planning t ...

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It's Only Money (1962)

Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look ...

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Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarrie ...

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Bachelor Flat (1961)

Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 1 ...

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Cinderfella (1960)

When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hid ...

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Say One for Me (1959)

Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly finds a job working for a dance club of questionable character, which is run by Tony Vincent. Vincent neve ...

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The Geisha Boy (1958)

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy. ...

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Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer. ...

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover. ...

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks. ...

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Hollywood or Bust (1956)

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives i ...

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The Scarlet Hour (1956)

An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist. ...

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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

A middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical exam, his wife has enlisted - and is really making the grade in the Air Force. Unhappy to be a "house husband," he flies to Hawaii to be near her - ...

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Artists and Models (1955)

A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as ...

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Susan Slept Here (1954)

On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Su ...

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Marry Me Again (1953)

Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income ...

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Natural Vision 3-Dimension (1952)

A short documentary explaining that you need to wear polarized glasses to see the 3rd dimension on the "new" 3-D films and introducing their 3-D film camera/system Natural Vision. Originally screened as a prologue to "Bwana Devil". ...

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Son of Paleface (1952)

Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. ...

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The First Time (1952)

A married couple welcomes their first child. ...

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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits ...

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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation. ...

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Kill the Umpire (1950)

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine un ...

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The Good Humor Man (1950)

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid broth ...

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A Woman of Distinction (1950)

Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, l ...

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about t ...

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Love Happy (1949)

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds. ...

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Red, Hot and Blue (1949)

In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob. ...

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The Paleface (1948)

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indi ...

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One Touch of Venus (1948)

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life. ...

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The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime ...

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Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale. ...

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Variety Girl (1947)

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interlu ...

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The Way of Peace (1947)

Punctuated with stories from the Bible, the film's purpose was to reinforce Christian values in the atomic age by condemning the consequences of human conflict with scenes of the crucifixion, lynching and Nazi fascism. ...

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The Lady Said No (1946)

Pepito approaches a beautiful senorita who icily rebuffs him, but he is persistent and she allows him to take her to an upscale restaurant, where Pepito can not pay the bill. The consequences are realized later when he finds himself at the altar, about to ...

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Hare Remover (1946)

Elmer Fudd is an amateur scientist who wants to turn a normal character into a devilish fiend; he's all out of experimental animals. Enter Bugs Bunny. ...

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Nasty Quacks (1945)

A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night life, which he loudly explains at breakfast, in the process of eating everything in sight. When the exasperate ...

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A Tale of Two Mice (1945)

Babitt and Catstello return; their goal: steal the cheese the cat is guarding. ...

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Behind the Meat-Ball (1945)

A dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him. ...

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Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages ...

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The Unruly Hare (1945)

When Elmer Fudd disturbs Bugs with his railroad surveying, Bugs fights back. ...

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The Stupid Cupid (1944)

Cupid (Elmer Fudd) is on the prowl around the farm. With his ever-accurate arrows, he spreads love to sometimes unwilling recipients. But when he sets his sights on Daffy, the duck wants no part of it. When Elm...erm...Cupid fires the largest arrow at his ...

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Booby Hatched (1944)

A duck struggles mightily and finally hatches her eggs in the bitter cold. All but one, that is: poor little Robespierre. Mama doesn't notice him missing until after he has sprouted legs and run off in search of warmth. ...

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Plane Daffy (1944)

Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get. ...

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Censored (1944)

Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions ...

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Brother Brat (1944)

A "Rosie the Riveter" type is in need of a baby-sitter for her awful child. The only person available is a clueless Porky Pig. His only instructions are to use a book of child psychology. After fruitless attempts to control the brat, his mother returns to ...

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The Chow Hound (1944)

Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies. ...

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Swooner Crooner (1944)

Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs. ...

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Donald Duck and the Gorilla (1944)

Ajax the killer gorilla has escaped from the zoo. Donald's nephews dress up as a gorilla, but soon Donald encounters the real gorilla, and they chase each other until the radio broadcasts instructions for subduing Ajax. ...

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I Got Plenty of Mutton (1944)

A wolf, deprived of meat by war rationing and starving, sees an article in the newspaper about a sheepdog leaving his flock to join the army and thinks it will be easy pickings. However, if he had read the rest of the article, he would know that the flock ...

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Puss n' Booty (1943)

Woman wonders why her little pet birds keep disappearing. Rudolph the cat knows, but other than burping feathers, he's not saying. But it looks like he's met his match when the woman orders another bird from the pet shop: a little yellow canary named "Pete ...

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The Home Front (1943)

A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself. ...

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A Corny Concerto (1943)

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck. ...

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The Gold Brick (1943)

A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons. ...

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Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)

During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, ...

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Porky Pig's Feat (1943)

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill. ...

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Tito's Guitar (1942)

Tito comes on his trusty burro to sing to his lady love, but his singing and guitar playing disturbs the girl's father. The father peppers Tito with a load of buckshot and Tito takes off in a cloud of dust. ...

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The Dumbconscious Mind (1942)

Butch's evil conscience convinces him to try and steal meat from a cute puppy. ...

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The Bulldog and the Baby (1942)

A black maid leaves the baby of the house she works at with Butch. The bulldog tries to keep the rambunctious baby from harm in the city, but all hell breaks loose. ...

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The Wild and Woozy West (1942)

Wild and Woozy West is another of the unsung cartoons from the Columbia studio of the '40s. It concerns the capture of the western wolf villain Angel Face, wanted dead or alive (perferrably dead). Among his list of crimes is "using naughty words". ...

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A Hollywood Detour (1942)

This cartoon, featuring a running-gag throughout of a John Barrymore caricature being mobbed by fan for an autograph, is a burlesqued tour of Hollywood. The narrator conducts a tourist tour all around the town of Hollywood Boulvevard, Malibu Beach, Santa A ...

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The Tangled Angler (1941)

A pelican fisherman tangles with a wise-cracking fish. ...

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The Fox and the Grapes (1941)

Illustrating the origin of the term 'sour grapes', (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour indeed. ...

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Timber (1941)

Hobo Donald steals dinner off Pegleg Pete's table. Pete gives Donald a stick of dynamite. Then he puts Donald to work chopping trees. To say Donald is an inept lumberjack is understating the case. After several mishaps, Pete/Pierre chases Donald on railroa ...

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Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940)

Mickey is heading out on vacation from Burbank to Pomona, taking the train. The conductor, Pete, won't let him on with Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and tries to hide him all throughout the trip without much luck. But Pete wins when Pluto is ho ...

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Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940)

Donald visits the house of his new love interest for their first known date. At first Daisy acts shy and has her back turned to her visitor. But Donald soon notices her tailfeathers taking the form of a hand and signaling for him to come closer. But their ...

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You're an Education (1938)

The brochures in a travel agency spring to life. ...

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Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)

Little Pancho Vanilla dreams of becoming a bullfighter, but his mother tells him that's impossible. The greatest bullfighter in Mexico, Don Jose, is coming to town; Pancho tells the local women he's better, so he goes to the amateur tryout, but he gets thr ...

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Brave Little Tailor (1938)

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real. ...

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Cracked Ice (1938)

It's ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.C. Fields (W.C. Squeals, apparently) calls for help from a Saint Bernard dog. The dog dispenses a drink, and Squeals b ...

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Wholly Smoke (1938)

A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc. ...

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The Major Lied 'Til Dawn (1938)

We open on a big game hunter telling a little boy (a caricture of child star Freddie Bartholomew) stories about hunting in the jungles of Africa. He tells him a story about a day he was hunting there. The game hunter gets help from African natives to catch ...

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Porky's Spring Planting (1938)

Porky and his dog, Streamline, plant a large garden. The neighbor chickens see the garden as one big buffet/cafeteria. ...

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Have You Got Any Castles (1938)

A night in a small library. The characters of famous books come to life, referring to movie versions of these books. ...

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Porky the Fireman (1938)

Fireman Porky and friends try to save a theatrical boarding house and its inhabitants from an inferno. ...

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Now That Summer Is Gone (1938)

Summer is gone, and throughout the forest young squirrels are working hard gathering acorns for the long cold winter ahead. But one such squirrel has a better idea: winning acorns by shooting dice. ...

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Porky at the Crocadero (1938)

The Crocadero nightclub. Porky has his diploma from the Sucker Correspondence School of music, and has dreams of being a bandleader, but he's broke. He gets a job at the club washing dishes. His boss mistakes Porky going after a fly for loafing and fires h ...

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The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937)

Forest animals participate in the Woodland Community Swing Variety Show on radio station KUKU. ...

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Porky's Double Trouble (1937)

Porky Pig has some problems when his mobster lookalike decides to frame him for a bank job. ...

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The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)

Porky Pig and his family inherit Uncle Solomon's estate, but if they die everything goes to the lawyer, who turns himself into a Mr. Hyde-style monster in an effort to kill off the pigs. ...

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Speaking of the Weather (1937)

It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, an ...

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Porky's Railroad (1937)

Porky is the engineer on the most pathetic train in the fleet. After some routine episodes (using pepper to get the engine to sneeze itself up a hill, chasing a cow off the tracks, only to discover too late that it's been replaced by a very angry bull), Po ...

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Porky's Building (1937)

Porky and another contractor are competing to submit the lower bid for a new city hall. When they submit identical bids, the city has them compete, whichever finishes first gets the job. ...

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Porky's Romance (1937)

The introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky Pig's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very appealing. ...

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Porky's Road Race (1937)

It's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid fo ...

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Porky in the North Woods (1936)

Porky Pig runs a game refuge. Despite the abundant signs to the contrary, Jean-Baptiste the trapper sets numerous traps, ensnaring many animals. ...

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Little Beau Porky (1936)

Porky's in the foreign legion. But he's not allowed to fight; all he can do is scrub camels, and he's not particularly good at that. The other soldiers ride off to find the evil Ali Mode, leaving Porky behind. Ali Mode notices, and tries to gain entrance t ...

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Porky's Poultry Plant (1936)

Porky Pig is raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Many birds have fallen victim to the hawk. Porky's going to do everything he can to fight back. ...

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The Fixer Uppers (1935)

Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous. ...

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Tit for Tat (1935)

Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendsh ...

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Pettin' in the Park (1934)

While at the park, a group of birds engage in a swimming contest. Another cartoon by Warner Brothers promoting a song from its movie "Gold Diggers of 1933". ...

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Hook and Ladder Hokum (1933)

Tom and Jerry are firemen working to rescue the top floor residents of a burning apartment house. ...

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Pencil Mania (1932)

This Tom and Jerry cartoon (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) is an opportunity for the animators to have fun with the medium. There is no specific plot. One of the boys uses a pencil to create a myriad number of animated illusions that could only ...

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Piano Tooners (1932)

Tom and Jerry work as piano tuners. After seeing them at work and several creative ways of tuning a piano (such as removing the offending key and cutting the key itself to a shorter length), the two attend an opera singers performance. The singer passes ou ...

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Movies Starring Frank Tashlin (1)

Catalina Island (1966)

An MGM short subject to promote their film "The Glass Bottom Boat". ...

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