Tex Avery — Director (111)
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Do a Good Deed (1935)
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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.
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The Sneezing Weasel (1938)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Bernice Hansen …
other title: La belette qui éternue / La Belette qui éternue
When Mama hen takes her chicks out to get breakfast, little Wilbur is soaked in a sudden rainstorm and comes down with a head cold. Mama puts him to bed, then goes back out to get the doctor. A conniving weasel, seeing Mama leave, disguises himself as a doctor and comes calling on the unattended chicks.
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Believe It or Else (1939)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Incroyable mais vrai !
In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
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Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Sara Berner …
other title: Dan McFoo le terrible
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?
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Ain't We Got Fun (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Billy Bletcher
other title: Não Temos Diversão / Une soirée agitée
The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
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Lucky Ducky (1948)
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Tex Avery
other title: Canard Veinard / ウルトラ子がも
It's hunting season, and all the ducks are wisely staying undercover - apart from this freshly-hatched little duckling, who turns out to be more than a match for two inept would-be hunters....
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Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947)
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Tex Avery actor: Paul Frees / Will Wright …
other title: La cabane de l'oncle Tom / La Cabane de l'oncle Tom …
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being Uncle Tom's Bungalow in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons.
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Red Hot Rangers (1947)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Dick Nelson
other title: Pas de fumée sans feu / George und Junior - Zwei brandheiße Typen
Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight.
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Jerky Turkey (1945)
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Tex Avery actor: Daws Butler / Bill Thompson …
other title: Esst nicht bei Joe / Le dindon de la farce …
A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear wearing an "Eat at Joe's" sandwich sign. The turkey harnesses the power of gags to save himself.
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Holiday Highlights (1940)
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Tex Avery
other title: Lumière sur les fêtes / Vive les jours fériés
Blackout gags about the holidays. New Year's (the baby speaks to us). Valentine's Day, Washington Day, etc.