Arthur Davis — Director (17)

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The Goofy Gophers (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Goofy Gophers
other title: Des taupes trop gourmandes / Goofy Gophers …
Two polite twin gophers raid a vegetable patch guarded by a rather smug dog, whose various unsuccessful schemes to nullify the crafty and modest gophers involve a female gopher disguise, a hand grenade, and a carrot stuffed with TNT.

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Quackodile Tears (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Quackodile Tears
director: Arthur Davis actor: Mel Blanc / June Foray
other title: Krokodilstränen / Des larmes de crocodiles …
Daffy Duck is ordered by his loud-mouthed wife to sit on their egg in a nest. When Daffy adjusts the nest to make it more comfortable, the egg rolls away from him and into a crocodile hatchery, where it is indistinguishable from all the other eggs. When Daffy picks what he think is his egg from the crocodile hatchery, a male crocodile gives chase and does battle with Daffy for the egg.

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The Stupor Salesman (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Stupor Salesman
director: Arthur Davis actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Un vendeur explosif
Slug McSlug, a notorious bank robber, is chased by police after his latest heist. He reaches his country hideout, where he is promptly visited by an uninvited Daffy Duck, who is a door-to-door vendor of a variety of items.

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The Little Match Girl (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Little Match Girl
director: Arthur Davis / Sid Marcus
other title: La petite fille aux allumettes
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.

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Odor of the Day (1948) IMDb Douban
Odor of the Day
other title: 一房难求 / Une odeur gênante
On a cold winter's day, a stray dog is looking for shelter, then finds and sneaks into a cabin with an open fireplace and a cozy bed. But he has a stinky rival for occupancy of the cabin - a skunk.

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The Shoemaker and the Elves (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Shoemaker and the Elves
director: Arthur Davis
A homeless waif, staggering through a roaring snow storm, wanders into a small town. and no one except a poor shoemaker will give the little boy shelter from the storm. That night, the elves come in with their equipment and material, and make a new supply of shoes for the old man. In the morning, see what has happened, the old man tells the boy he has brought him luck, and can stay with him as his adopted son.

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Pink Suds (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pink Suds
director: Arthur Davis
other title: Der rosarote Waschtag / La Panthère Rose Fait Sa Lessive …
The Pink Panther goes to the launderette, and causes mishaps to a customer there.

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Pinktails for Two (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pinktails for Two
director: Arthur Davis
other title: Rosarot und riesengroß / Rose Et Gigantesque …
The Pink Panther's tail becomes unusually long after being accidentally exposed to growth serum.

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Pink Trumpet (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pink Trumpet
director: Arthur Davis
other title: Der rosarote Störenfried / La Trompette De La Panthère Rose …
Staying in a motel, the Pink Panther decides to practice his trumpet playing, while annoying the man next door in the motel.

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Support Your Local Serpent (1972) IMDb TMDB
Support Your Local Serpent
director: Arthur Davis actor: Bob Holt
The Blue Racer is trying to catch Japanese Beetle. He first tries to catch him by hiding inside a hose, however, plan is backfired when Japanese Beetle turns on the faucet. Then he tries to catch him by hopping, but again, plan foiled because he ran across a rolling roller. While chasing the Beetle again, Blue Racer runs into a venus flytrap, which spits the snake out (the flytrap claims that it tasted awful). The Blue Racer decided he needs to fly in the air to catch the bug and sucks a can of helium, and floats in the air. However, when he opens his mouth, he flys off in the air and falls into a bag of genuine fertilizer.

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Two Gophers from Texas (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Two Gophers from Texas
director: Arthur Davis actor: Mel Blanc / Stan Freberg
other title: Deux écureuils du Texas / Un mage de chien
A theatrical dog decides to answer the call of the wild and hunt for his food. He targets two polite twin gophers as his first conquest and tries to kill them with a falling-rock trap hooked to a radish patch, then plots to attract them into range of his clutches by dressing himself like a baby, then by playing music. The gophers foil all of these schemes and trap the dog in his own piano as they play the keys, which are linked to hammers whacking the dog's rear.

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Pink Tuba-Dore (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pink Tuba-Dore
director: Arthur Davis
other title: Le Tuba Rose / 頑皮豹與低音號手
In the Alps, The Pink Panther's sleep is disturbed by a tuba player and his howling dog, and he decides to stop it.

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The Pest That Came to Dinner (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Pest That Came to Dinner
director: Arthur Davis actor: Mel Blanc
other title: Terminus pour un termite
Porky Pig soon discovers that a termite is responsible for his belongings crumbling to dust. When he can't exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite.