Tex Avery — Director (111)
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I Wanna Be a Sailor (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Elvia Allman / Mel Blanc …
other title: Ich will ein Seemann sein / Un marin d'eau douce
Momma parrot is teaching her young-uns to say "Polly want a cracker" but little Peter doesn't want a cracker, he wants to be a sailor like dad. Mom tells him what a no-account his dad really was, setting sail for Hawaii ("no, Maw, it was Catalina") right after the kids were born. Peter is unswayed, and takes off. He turns a barrel into a boat, and crews it with an annoyingly talkative duckling, then sets sail on a lake. They get caught in a thunderstorm (the duck loves it). Peter calls for help and momma comes running, but the duck has already saved him. But he still wants to be a sailor.
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I Only Have Eyes for You (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Elvia Allman / Sara Berner …
other title: Chanteur pour dames
The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving her, he spots the sign of an imitator, and thinks he could ask him to do the crooning for him while he is trying to date his girl. The imitator accepts, and at first the trick is working, until the imitator gets too cold amid the ice in the back of the van and the girl gets suspicious.
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Egghead Rides Again (1937)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Tête d'œuf remonte à la surface / Egghead Cabalga de nuevo …
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
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Plane Dippy (1936)
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Tex Avery actor: Jack Carr
other title: Un avion obéissant
Porky Pig joins the Army Air Corps. After overcoming the problems caused by his small stature and surviving the rigors of basic training...
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Page Miss Glory (1936)
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Tex Avery actor: Tommy Bond / Bernice Hansen
other title: Miss Glory / Llamando a la Señorita Gloria …
While the rural town of Hicksville anticipates the arrival of one Miss Glory, the bellhop at her modest hotel falls asleep and dreams of paging her at a luxurious metropolitan high rise hotel.
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Milk and Money (1936)
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Tex Avery actor: Billy Bletcher / Joe Dougherty …
Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horse race and accidentally enter; the horse is merely plodding along until it gets stung again.
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I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1936)
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Tex Avery actor: Elmore Vincent / Tommy Bond …
other title: Le Petit Épouvantail
Quitting time for a scarecrow. He gets home, and his little boy scares him. To the title song, he teaches his son the basics of scare-crowing. Bedtime for junior; he prays to be a big scarecrow, just like his daddy. The next morning he sneaks out before anyone else is up and practices scaring a rooster, a squirrel, and a rabbit. He takes up his father's place, but the crows are not impressed; in fact, the crow goes on the attack.
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Cross Country Detours (1940)
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Tex Avery actor: Bea Benaderet / Sara Berner …
other title: Les Sept Merveilles du monde
A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California.
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Fresh Fish (1939)
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Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Sara Berner …
other title: Sacrés poissons
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
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Circus Today (1940)
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Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Le Cirque d'Aujourd'hui / Le Cirque aujourd'hui
A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.
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Land of the Midnight Fun (1939)
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other title: Au pays du soleil levant / Au pays du soleil de minuit
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" Two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trilon.
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The Penguin Parade (1938)
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Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Tex Avery …
other title: La parade des pingouins / Le Défilé des pingouins
An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, literaly melting some of the instruments.