Walter Lantz — Director (40)
cover

Movie

Do a Good Deed (1935)
Do a Good Deed IMDb TMDB
Walter Lantz / Tex Avery
Oswald is running a boy's camp and has taught the boys do do a good deed a day. This is borne out as wise advice when a bear attacks the camp, and the many animals, birds and bees befriended by the boys come to their rescue and run the bear away.
cover

Movie

Alaska (1930)
Alaska IMDb TMDB
William Nolan / Walter Lantz
A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him.
cover

Movie

The Hash Shop (1930)
The Hash Shop IMDb TMDB
Walter Lantz
Oswald is a wise-cracking waiter. One diner tells the rabbit he can eat a horse, so Oswald actually gives him his dinner.... a live horse.
cover

Movie

Amature Nite (1929)
Amature Nite WikiData IMDb TMDB
Walter Lantz
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit goes to an Amateur Nite show, where he sees the "Hippy Hippos", "St. Louie Blues", and "Quacky Quacks". His reaction is usually opposite the other members of the audience, who force him to react the same way as them.
cover

Movie

Abou Ben Boogie (1944)
Abou Ben Boogie IMDb TMDB
Walter Lantz
Abou Ben Boogie Release Date: 9/18/44 Direction: James Cullhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation Layout: Art Heinemann Animation: Paul Smith Musical Arrangement: Darrell Calker Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard Lyrics: Tot Seymour Music: Vee Lawnhurst Notes: Production Number: D-7 A Swing Symphony cartoon The second and final appearance of "Miss X." Michael Fitzgerald incorrectly lists this cartoon as an August release. Click here to see Abou Ben Boogie sheet music. Some animation of "Miss X" by Pat Matthews, deemed "too sexy," was cropped out of Castle Films home use prints.
cover

Movie

Wonderland (1931)
Wonderland WikiData IMDb TMDB
William Nolan / Walter Lantz
The mortgage is due by 6 p.m. or Grandma and Oswald will lose the homestead. Oswald is forced to take the beloved old milk cow to market. On the way, he's accosted by a scary old witch. She wants the cow and gives Oswald a bag of magic beans in exchange. The beans grow into a huge beanstalk which transports Oswald to a giant ogre's castle in the clouds.