Paul J. Smith — Director (27)
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Lonesome Ranger (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lonesome Ranger
director: Paul J. Smith
"Lonesome Ranger" is the 147th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically in 1966, the film was produced by Walter Lantz. Woody makes it difficult for a lone forest ranger that is just trying to do his job.
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Spook-a-Nanny (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Spook-a-Nanny
director: Paul J. Smith / Robert Dwan … actor: Grace Stafford / Daws Butler …
The third cartoon from the show titled "Halloween Party," a special 23-minute episode of "The Woody Woodpecker Show," this was made for television. (The two other short cartoons in this episode were previously released theatrically.) This is the final appearance (to date) of Homer Pigeon. This is the final appearance (to date) of Andy Panda. This was the only made-for-TV Woody Woodpecker cartoon in "The Woody Woodpecker Show"; the only other made-for-TV cartoons in the program (except for the framing segments) were the 1960 Sam 'n Simian pilot "The Jungle Medics" and the 1963 Space Mouse pilot "The Secret Weapon."
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The Mouse and the Lion (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Mouse and the Lion
director: Paul J. Smith
The Lion, the King of the Jungle, is taking his royal snooze when a mouse comes on a safari to his royal hideaway. The mouse is from Bungling Brothers Circus [us], and his mission is to take HRH back to the states as a circus act. The mouse then goes about his business of capturing the lion. At the fadeout, back in the USA, the lion of performing on a precarious tight-rope, high above the arena sawdust, while the mouse whip lashes him.
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Coo Coo Nuts (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Coo Coo Nuts
director: Paul J. Smith
Woody Woodpecker ends up on an island inhabited by Robinson Crusoe, who has somehow managed to survive for years eating nothing but coconuts.
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Chief Charlie Horse (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Chief Charlie Horse
director: Paul J. Smith actor: Dal McKennon
Woody Woodpecker is working as a woodcarver, a very apt occupation for a woodpecker, and is carving a wooden when the outlaw, Chief Charley Horse, being pursued by the sheriff, ducks into Woody's shop. The sheriff also arrives and there is much confusion on the premises before Woody gets the reward for capturing the chief.
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Busman's Holiday (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Busman's Holiday
director: Paul J. Smith actor: Grace Stafford / Dal McKennon
As the scene opens, window washer Woody washes the window of Pierre's bakery. His first mishap is to cause Pierre to mess up a cake that he's decorating, and Pierre tells him off. Since this job is finished, Woody gets on a bus with his automatic extension ladder, which keeps hitting the bus driver in the head every time that the bus stops. The driver finally throws Woody off, but Woody manages to get back on. The comedy with the ladder continues, finally involving a traffic cop, a motorcycle policeman and Pierre, as well as Woody and the driver. The story ends with all the participants, on the motorcycle, crashing into a brick wall.
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Salmon Yeggs (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Salmon Yeggs
director: Paul J. Smith actor: Daws Butler
Instead of fishing for salmon in the stream Windy the bear tries to show his son Breezy a shortcut method...by looting a cannery. The guard makes this a difficult task.
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Half Empty Saddles (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Half Empty Saddles
director: Paul J. Smith actor: Grace Stafford / Dal McKennon
other title: 半个空鞍子
Woody Woodpecker is wandering around the wild west again seeking to find some buried gold and he tangles with a crook who wishes to find the gold for himself. Woody finally disposes of the villain by shooting him into outer space via a rocket, another favorite method used by Woody to rid himself of whatever he wanted rid of at the moment. The horse steals the film.