Frank Tashlin Directs Classic-era Looney Tunes
by bderoes-12985 | created - 22 Apr 2015 | updated - 22 Apr 2015 | PublicClassic-era ends in 1969.
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1. Porky's Poultry Plant (1936)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Louise Currie, Melvin J. Gibby, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster
Votes: 437
2. Little Beau Porky (1936)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty
Votes: 331
3. Porky in the North Woods (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Jean 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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 425
4. Porky's Road Race (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen, Bernice Kamiat
Votes: 408
5. Porky's Romance (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
The 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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Joe Dougherty, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 445
6. Porky's Building (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen, Dorothy Hill
Votes: 206
7. Porky's Railroad (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky 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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Kamiat, Danny Webb
Votes: 595
8. Speaking of the Weather (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, The Debutantes
Votes: 369
9. The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky and his family are the target of a monster who wants their inheritance.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Shirley Reed
Votes: 546
10. Porky's Double Trouble (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
Public 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Charles Frederick Lindsley, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 373
11. The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Lorraine Bridges, Peter Lind Hayes
Votes: 378
12. Porky at the Crocadero (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
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... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Sing Band, Danny Webb
Votes: 348
13. Now That Summer Is Gone (1938)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
"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... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bill Days
Votes: 432
14. Porky the Fireman (1938)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky and his friends try to save a theatrical boarding house.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Sara Berner, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 347
15. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Musical, Animation
Another 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Basin Street Boys, Dorothy Compton
Votes: 831
16. Porky's Spring Planting (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky and his dog, Streamline, plant a large garden in creative ways. The neighbor chickens see the garden as one big buffet/cafeteria.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Elvia Allman, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 229
17. The Major Lied 'Til Dawn (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tommy Bond, Bill Days, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 131
18. Wholly Smoke (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Sing Band, Paul Taylor Group, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 390
19. Cracked Ice (1938)
Not Rated | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
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... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Danny Webb
Votes: 357
20. Little Pancho Vanilla (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Shirley Reed, Ynez Seabury
Votes: 303
21. You're an Education (1938)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Musical
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Paul Taylor Group, The Symphonettes
Votes: 330
22. Porky Pig's Feat (1943)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,000
23. Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy takes on a goat sent by Hitler to eat up his scrap pile.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dorothy Lloyd, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 622
24. The Goldbrick (1943)
4 min | Animation, Short
A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 272
25. The Home Front (1943)
4 min | Animation, Short
A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as commited to the war efforts as himself.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 316
26. Puss n' Booty (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
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... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc
Votes: 498
27. I Got Plenty of Mutton (1944)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
One 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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 419
28. Swooner Crooner (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 818
29. The Chow Hound (1944)
4 min | Animation, Short
Snafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Graham
Votes: 151
30. Brother Brat (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 218
31. Censored (1944)
5 min | Animation, Short
When Snafu gets his wish to have his personal mail uncensored by the military, he inadvertently reveals military secrets that lead to disaster.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner
Votes: 325
32. Plane Daffy (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 630
33. Booby Hatched (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Winter. 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 418
34. The Stupid Cupid (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Elmer Fudd plays a cupid at a farm. He encounters Daffy Duck and eventually lands an arrow causing him to fall for a chicken.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Frank Graham, Dorothy Lloyd
Votes: 568
35. The Unruly Hare (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
As a surveyor, Elmer Fudd is disturbing Bugs Bunny's peace. So Bugs harasses Fudd, who is also trying to get revenge.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Tedd Pierce, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 474
36. Behind the Meat-Ball (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
A dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
Votes: 198
37. Tale of Two Mice (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Babitt 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,
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 219
38. Nasty Quacks (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A 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.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 549
39. Hare Remover (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Elmer 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.
Directors: Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 751
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