Michael Maltese — Playwright (120)
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Who Scent You? (1960) IMDb TMDB
Who Scent You?
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Une croisière parfumée
A female cat wants to board a French cruise ship. Prior to the ship's departure, she crawls under a freshly-painted gate and gets a white streak atop her back and tail. Enter enamored Pepé Le Pew.
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Terrier-Stricken (1952) IMDb TMDB
Terrier-Stricken
director: Chuck Jones actor: Bea Benaderet
other title: Une terreur
Frisky Puppy's sudden barking and playful antics send Claude Cat on wild rides through their house, down the chimney, in and out of faucets, out the door, and eventually diving into an empty swimming pool.
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Going! Going! Gosh! (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Going! Going! Gosh!
director: Chuck Jones actor: Paul Julian
other title: Kein Mittagessen für Kojote / Poursuite et Fin …
The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.
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Little Beau Pepé (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Little Beau Pepé
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Michael Maltese
other title: Pépé légionnaire / El pequeño galán …
After driving the Foreign Legionnaires from their fort with his aroma, lovesick skunk Pepe falls for the camp mascot, a cat who's accidentally gotten a white stripe painted down her back.
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Scent-imental Romeo (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scent-imental Romeo
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Julia stinkt's / Roméo de cologne …
A hungry cat disguises herself as a skunk to get in on feeding time at the zoo, but amorous Pepé thinks she's the real thing and pours on his Maurice Chevalier impression to win her over.
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Angel Puss (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Angel Puss
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc
A little black boy is hired to kill a cat, but the feline escapes and proceeds to play tricks on the kid, pretending he's a ghost come back to haunt his "killer". One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
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The Cats Bah (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cats Bah
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Bea Benaderet
other title: Un chat se bat dans la casse-bah / Chatsablanca
Penelope, an American tourist cat who's gotten a white stripe of paint down her back, is pursued through the Casbah by the amorous skunk Pepe Le Pew, who woos her with his rendition of "As Time Goes By".
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Wild About Hurry (1959) IMDb TMDB
Wild About Hurry
director: Chuck Jones actor: Paul Julian
other title: Rien ne sert de courir / El Coyote y el Correcaminos: Hay que poner pies en polvorosa
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner by enclosing himself inside an indestructible steel ball.
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Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hip Hip-Hurry!
director: Chuck Jones
other title: Hip Hip Hourra ! / El Coyote y el Correcaminos: Hip, hip, date prisa
Wile E. Coyote is once again after the Road Runner, this time resorting to hand grenades, dynamite, falling rocks and a speed potion (which contains vitamins R, P and M).
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90 Day Wondering (1956) IMDb TMDB
90 Day Wondering
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Daws Butler …
Ralph Phillips is overjoyed when he runs out of Fort Itude, because he's a civilian again. Things, however, don't go well for him when he gets home, and two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete convince him to stay in civilian life or go back to the army. At the end, Ralph chooses to go back to the army
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Rocket-bye Baby (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rocket-bye Baby
director: Chuck Jones actor: Daws Butler / June Foray
other title: Das Baby vom Mars / Berceuse Martienne …
A cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the green-skinned, ingenious Martian tyke as if he were an Earthling. But the kid builds his own spaceship and flies away, and Wilbur must find him and bring him back, or he'll never be able to make an exchange with the Martian parents for his own boy.
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The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
director: Chuck Jones actor: Mel Blanc / Bea Benaderet …
other title: L'Ours brun piqué au vif
It's breakfast time, and Pa finds the honeypot empty. Literally risking life and limb, he has Junyer help him raid a nearby beehive. In the end, he finds he should have listened to Ma in the first place, rather than telling her to "Shaddap!"