Tex Avery — Director (62)
Cross Country Detours (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cross Country Detours
director: 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.
Fresh Fish (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fresh Fish
director: 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.
Circus Today (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Circus Today
director: 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.
Land of the Midnight Fun (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Land of the Midnight Fun
director: Tex Avery
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.
The Penguin Parade (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Penguin Parade
director: 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.
Cat's Meow (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cat's Meow
director: Tex Avery
other title: Le miaulement du chat
An orange cat lets it be known that it hates dogs. When the cat runs across a big mean looking bull dog, the cat does whatever it can to avoid the wrath of the dog while tormenting it. The cat comes across a device which lets it throw its voice, which the cat uses to trick the dog into thinking it's where it's not really located. Ultimately, the cat uses the device to turn another group of canines against one of their own. But the cat's action has an unforeseen consequence against itself.
The Village Smithy (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Village Smithy
director: Tex Avery actor: Tedd Pierce / Tex Avery
The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant Porky gives the blacksmith a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the horse's backside by accident.
The Early Worm Gets the Bird (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Early Worm Gets the Bird
director: Tex Avery
other title: Der frühe Wurm fängt 'nen Vogel / Premier au moulin, premier au grain
A determined bird goes out early to hunt for a worm and the bird gets into trouble.