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There Auto Be a Law (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
There Auto Be a Law
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc
other title: L’Auto c’est la loi / L'auto, c'est la loi
This documentary-style cartoon tells of the development of the automobile in America and the comical effects of cars, traffic, and road design on various kinds of people.
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China Jones (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
China Jones
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Nuit de Chine
Daffy Duck is China Jones, a fortune-seeking Irish private eye working in the Far East. He finds a call for help in a Chinese fortune cookie and decides to investigate. Acting on a tip displayed on a solo musician's drum, Daffy/Jones goes to a pub owned by Limey Louie to look for clues. Louie is, in fact, an ex-convict who blames Jones for sending him to jail. Louie disguises himself as a grieving widow and arranges a series of mishaps for the web-footed sleuth. Porky Pig also appears in this cartoon as Charlie Chung, the plain-clothes Chinese detective.
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What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
What's Brewin', Bruin?
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Billy Bletcher …
other title: Quel est ce vacarme ? / What Brewin Bruin ?
Pa Bear's attempts to hibernate are constantly frustrated by Junyer's snoring, Ma repeatedly opening the window, a persistent drip from the ceiling and finally, the voices of spring.
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Feather Bluster (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Feather Bluster
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Wie der Vater so der Sohn / Un souvenir alléchant …
Geriatrics Foghorn Leghorn and the barnyard dog recount their years of violent, mutual heckling, unaware that outside the window of their house their grandsons are behaving the same. The short is essentially a clip show, in that the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons.
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The Slap-Hoppy Mouse (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Slap-Hoppy Mouse
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Une colossale bête
Sylvester Cat takes his son, Junior, on a mouse-hunting expedition in an old, broken-down, mouse-infested house near some railroad tracks.
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Cannery Woe (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cannery Woe
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc / Tom Holland
other title: Speedy Gonzales - schnellste Maus von Mexico / Pour une poignée de gruyère
Speedy Gonzales helps provide cheese for the mayor's reelection campaign (and two hungry friends) by swiping it from the store guarded by Sylvester.
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The Dixie Fryer (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Dixie Fryer
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc / Daws Butler
other title: Leghahn - Neues vom Hühnerhof / Pas de printemps pour Charlie
Foghorn Leghorn travels to the deep south to enjoy the sun, but must contend with two yokelish chicken hawks, Pappy and Elvis, who want to roast him for dinner.
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The Prize Pest (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Prize Pest
director: Robert McKimson actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Un canard envahissant
After listening to one of his favorite radio programs, Porky Pig receives a grand prize from the station. Out of the gift box pops Daffy Duck, who insists on living in Porky's house.
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The Honey-Mousers (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Honey-Mousers
director: Robert McKimson actor: Daws Butler / June Foray
other title: Bei Maus zu Haus / Une femme de caractère
In this spoof of TV's "The Honeymooners", Ralph Crumden and Ned Morton are mouse versions of Jackie Gleason and Art Carney's characters on the TV show. When new human tenants move into the apartment where the Crumden and Morton couples live, Ralph and Ned try to gain access to a banquet of food in the people's refrigerator, which is guarded by an orange cat.
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Along Came Daffy (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Along Came Daffy
director: 弗里兹·弗里伦 actor: 梅尔·勃朗
other title: El pato llega solo / Die Ente, die den Braten roch
Snowbound in a remote cabin, two starving men begin visualizing each other as food. When salesman Daffy Duck calls at their door, it doesn't take long before the men set their minds on having Daffy as their dinner.
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The Mouse That Jack Built (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Mouse That Jack Built
director: Robert McKimson actor: 杰克·本尼 / Mary Livingstone …
other title: El ratón que Jack creó / The Mouse that Jack Built …
In this spoof of "The Jack Benny Program", a mouse with Jack Benny's personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version of Benny's valet, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, in a hole in a wall of Jack Benny's own home. Jack the rodent takes a mouse version of 'Mary Livingstone (I)' out to dinner, and the two unwittingly walk right into the disguised mouth of an orange cat!