Frank Tashlin Directs Classic-era Looney Tunes
Classic-era ends in 1969.
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- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsLouise CurrieMelvin J. GibbyBarbara BrewsterPorky 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. He takes to the air, but the buzzard calls in reinforcements; first they pull Porky's tail, then they bombard him with eggs, and finally they steal his machine gun. The birds toss the chick back and forth football style, but drop it; Porky recovers, and manages to take out the flock of buzzards.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsBilly BletcherJoe DoughertyPorky'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 to the fort, first by tricking Porky, then by tunnelling, then by military assaults, but Porky rebuffs all attempts, ultimately landing Ali Mode in a big vat of "Cairo Syrup" and collecting a chestful of medals.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsBilly BletcherJoe DoughertyBernice HansenJean Batiste catches many of Porky's animal friends in his traps, so Porky follows him and releases the animals as soon as they are trapped. Jean learns of this and captures Porky.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsBilly BletcherJoe DoughertyBernice HansenIt'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 for the finish line, can Porky fend him off?
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJoe DoughertyMel BlancBilly BletcherThe introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky'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.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBernice HansenPorky 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.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBernice KamiatPorky is advised by the superintendent of the railroad that his services and the services of his old-fashioned engine are no longer required as the company will be using a new streamlined train.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsTex AveryMel BlancBilly BletcherIt'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, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerBilly BletcherPorky and his family are the target of a monster who wants their inheritance.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerCharles Frederick LindsleyPublic Enemy #1 wants to wreak havoc again, but he is on the most wanted list in the newspaper. He then notices that there's somebody who looks similar to him: Porky Pig. He kidnaps Porky and disguises himself as the bank teller that Porky is and uses his position to steal. When the police find where Porky has been, and his love captured, Porky's love decides to go out with the criminal instead of him!
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsSara BernerMel BlancLorraine BridgesA program for radio KUKU set in the woods, mostly starring birds as caricatures of celebrities of the day. The MC is bandleader Ben Birdie, heckled by Walter Finchell. Wendell Howell prepares to lead a singalong; he gives several different page numbers in the songbook, then says, "Never mind, we won't use the books." The audience, responding "Oh yes we will" pelts him. Billy Goat and Ernie Bear introduce and sing the title song. Everyone sings along, except a fox, who informed he's singing the wrong song, responds, "Why don't somebody tell me these things?" We pan across a series of celebrity guests, like W.C. Field-mouse, Dick Fowl, Deanna Terrapin, Bing Crowsby, and the high-note competing duo of Grace Moose and Lily Swans. Tizzie Fish has a cooking segment. Finally, Louella Possums introduces a company performing a scene from The Prodigal's Return.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancThe Sing BandDanny WebbThe 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 him. His bandleaders don't show, and he brings Porky back to impersonate several famous bandleaders.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBill Days"Summer is gone" and throughout the forest, squirrels are working hard gathering acorns for the long cold winter ahead. But one young squirrel has a better idea...winning acorns by shooting dice. His father disapproves of the plan but can't make his son stop gambling. Winter comes and the father sends the son to the First Nutional Bank to retrieve the family acorn savings. On the way back, the son meets up with a mysterious squirrel intent on teaching him the evils of gambling...
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancElvia AllmanSara BernerPorky and his friends try to save a theatrical boarding house.
- DirectorFrank TashlinFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherBasin Street BoysAnother entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancElvia AllmanTedd PiercePorky and his dog, Streamline, plant a large garden in creative ways. The neighbor chickens see the garden as one big buffet/cafeteria.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancTommy BondBill DaysWe 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 some animals, with some odd results. Sight gags include a African native with a record player hidden in his huge lower lip, an elephant who can't remember something he was supposed to do, and the game hunter riding a elephant and having to "shift gears" like an automobile to get up a steep hill.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancThe Sing BandPaul Taylor GroupA 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.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancTedd PierceDanny WebbIt'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 begins scheming to get some himself. First he tries faking his own fall through the ice, but the dog sees through it and downs the drink himself. Then Squeals tries using a dish of bones and a magnet, but the magnet falls through the ice and gets stuck around a fish. The fish then swims through a liquor spill from the dog's casket; the drunken fish grabs an ax and, swimming in a circle, dunks another skater. He then latches onto Squeals' skates, and hauls him into an ice-skating contest, where the fish-induced antics win him first prize. Squeals fills the loving cup from the dog's cask, and the fish swims off with it.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancShirley ReedYnez SeaburyLittle 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 thrown out because he's so small. The bull quickly disposes of the other amateurs, sending one over the fence, where he catapults Pancho into the ring right on top of the bull, knocking out the bull to great acclaim from the crowd.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherPaul Taylor GroupThe brochures in a travel agency come to life. After a series of quick gags (flying fish in airplanes, a wave washing swimmers out to sea and back, etc). , there's a musical interlude featuring a tuba from Cuba. Two Hungary boys are lured by the Cook Island; they grab the Twin Forks from Montana, and add Turkey to their plates, then stop by the Sandwich Islands, Hamburg, Chili, Oyster Bay, and finally a cup of Java. A thief from Bagdad visits the Kimberly Diamond Mines, but awakes a sleeping baby, who Wales. This alerts Central (America), who calls Radio City, which contacts all countries. A group of bobbies, Mounties, Scotland Yard, and others pursue, while the thief is visiting a Pawnee shop. He tries to hide in the fog of London, but it's blown away by a windmill. A dude ranch hand ropes him, then drags him through the Red, Black, and Yellow Seas, and onto the back of the Lone Stranger's horse. They ride off, noting that he's not alone any more. (There is reportedly another sequence between the tuba and food segments; it was censored on the print viewed, presumably because of stereotyping).
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancPorky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancDorothy LloydTedd PierceDaffy takes on a goat sent by Hitler to eat up his scrap pile.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancA fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancA homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as commited to the war efforts as himself.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsBea BenaderetMel BlancWoman 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 "Petey".
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancOne snowy night a starving wolf is reading a newspaper. As the wolf gets more and more hungry, he dresses up like a sexy ewe to try and lure the ram from his post so he can get to the sheep for a meal.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerPorky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
- DirectorFriz FrelengFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancFrank GrahamSnafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetRobert C. BruceA "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 show Porky how to use the book - as a paddle on his little behind.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerWhen Snafu gets his wish to have his personal mail uncensored by the military, he inadvertently reveals military secrets that lead to disaster.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerRobert C. BruceDaffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsSara BernerMel BlancWinter. A duck struggles mightily, and finally hatches her eggs in the bitter cold, after candling them and seeing the chicks skiing, skating, and otherwise enjoying winter inside the shells. All but one, that is: poor little Robespierre. She doesn't notice until after the rest of the brood has gone swimming and Robespierre has sprouted legs and run off in search of warmth. He finds it, under a hibernating bear ("So I laid an egg"), but a wolf has followed him in and snatches the egg, with some help from a stick of TNT. What the wolf hasn't counted on is mama, who's right behind him, with a couple of eye-poking fingers at the ready. The wolf swaps a doorknob for the egg, and starts boiling the egg, but mama arrives in the nick of time only to be rejected by the baby, who was just getting warm.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancDave BarryFrank GrahamElmer Fudd plays a cupid at a farm. He encounters Daffy Duck and eventually lands an arrow causing him to fall for a chicken.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanTedd PierceAs a surveyor, Elmer Fudd is disturbing Bugs Bunny's peace. So Bugs harasses Fudd, who is also trying to get revenge.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerA dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancTedd PierceBabitt and Catstello return; their goal: steal the cheese the cat is guarding. Schemes include sneaking past a sleeping cat (Catstello chickens out), a miniature airplane, and a platform on a rope-and-pulley system,
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerRobert C. BruceA pet duckling grows up to be Daffy. His antics soon grate on the family, culminating in a fencing match at the breakfast table fought with butter knives. But the daughter defends Daffy.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd is a mad scientist who wants to turn Bugs Bunny into a fiend. Bugs tricks this ersatz Dr. Jekyll into drinking his own mixture; later, each thinks the other has changed into a bear.