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Dave Fleischer Filmography
Complete filmography of Dave Fleischer: 73 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Billion Dollar Limited | 1,942 | Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 50 | English | Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman! |
| The Arctic Giant | 1,942 | Fantasy, Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 48 | English | A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage! |
| Volcano | 1,942 | Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 46 | English | Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts. |
| The Bulleteers | 1,942 | Action, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.5 | 45 | English | Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them! |
| Electric Earthquake | 1,942 | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction | 6.5 | 42 | English | A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan! |
| The Magnetic Telescope | 1,942 | Animation, Fantasy, Action, Family, Adventure, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 42 | English | When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop. |
| Terror on the Midway | 1,942 | Animation, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 6.6 | 41 | English | When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals. |
| Superman | 1,941 | Action, Animation, Family, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy | 6.9 | 116 | English | After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story. |
| The Mechanical Monsters | 1,941 | Action, Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 7 | 64 | English | Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army. |
| Mr. Bug Goes to Town | 1,941 | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 34 | English | The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town. |
| Gulliver's Travels | 1,939 | Animation, Family, Action, Adventure | 6.2 | 138 | English | Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol. |
| Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp | 1,939 | Drama, Comedy, Animation | 7.1 | 29 | English | Olive Oyl's screenplay for an Aladdin movie comes to life and Popeye battles for control of a genie in this, the last of the three Popeye color films. |
| Customers Wanted | 1,939 | Animation, Comedy | 5.6 | 14 | English | Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing arcades show clips featuring each of them, with well over half of this short thus recycled. |
| The Fresh Vegetable Mystery | 1,939 | Animation, Mystery, Comedy | 7.2 | 10 | English | Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police and they are soon on the trail of the culprit. But the various suspects they round up, and grill, aren't the criminals. They finally track down the guilty parties, who turn out to be a gang of mice in disguise. Thrown into a third-degree mousetrap, the mice soon confess. |
| Out of the Inkwell | 1,938 | Comedy, Animation | 5.4 | 26 | English | In a tribute to the Fleischer brothers shorts of the '20s, a janitor hypnotizes Max Fleischer's pen to draw Betty Boop. |
| Hunky and Spunky | 1,938 | Animation | 5.8 | 14 | English | A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave and his mother saves him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2013. |
| Goonland | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy | 6.9 | 12 | English | Popeye sails to Goon Island in search of his Pappy. He finds the place populated by the imposing, but ugly, goons, and a "no humans" sign. His imprisoned pappy at first ignores him, but when Popeye is caught by the goons and carried off, his can of spinach lands near Pappy and it works just as well on him as it does on Popeye. |
| A Date to Skate | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy | 5.6 | 10 | English | Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control. |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves | 1,937 | Comedy, Animation | 7.7 | 32 | English | Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves. |
| The Paneless Window Washer | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 6.8 | 22 | English | Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on. |
| Educated Fish | 1,937 | Animation | 5.7 | 13 | English | A small fish doesn’t pay attention in school, and ends up getting caught on a hook. |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | 1,936 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 6.7 | 145 | English | After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to test him and his ever-resilient new rival's strength in order to prove their supremacy as the "most remarkable, extraordinary fella" of Sindbad's menagerie island. |
| Somewhere in Dreamland | 1,936 | Fantasy, Animation | 7.4 | 28 | English | A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive home. Their poor mother sets before them the only food she can: Stale bread. The children get ready for bed; In their dreams, visions of ice cream and donuts, candies and cakes fill their sleeping minds-- Will they awake to the same sorry situation? |
| Christmas Comes But Once a Year | 1,936 | Animation, Family, Comedy | 7 | 26 | English | At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. |
| The Cobweb Hotel | 1,936 | Horror, Animation, Comedy | 7 | 16 | English | A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste. |
| Little Swee'pea | 1,936 | Animation, Comedy | 6.7 | 13 | English | Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals. |
| I'm in the Army Now | 1,936 | Animation, Comedy | 6 | 12 | English | Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them. |
| Betty Boop and the Little King | 1,936 | Animation | 6.3 | 12 | English | Betty encounters The Little King when, bored by the opera, he sneaks out to join in with her rodeo routine. |
| The Song of the Birds | 1,935 | Animation | 5.5 | 12 | English | A boy gets trigger happy with his BB gun, but soon regrets it. |
| Betty Boop and Grampy | 1,935 | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.9 | 12 | English | Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party. |
| Poor Cinderella | 1,934 | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 6.4 | 38 | English | In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper. |
| A Dream Walking | 1,934 | Animation, Comedy | 6.7 | 21 | English | Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero. |
| Red Hot Mamma | 1,934 | Animation, Comedy | 6.6 | 18 | English | Betty Boop, sleepless on a freezing night, builds a nice hot fire which proves too much of a good thing; in a dream she visits Hell, sings "Hell's Bells," and makes Hell freeze over! |
| Betty Boop's Rise to Fame | 1,934 | Animation, Comedy, Music, Family | 5.8 | 16 | English | A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons. |
| Ha! Ha! Ha! | 1,934 | Comedy, Animation | 6.4 | 16 | English | After drawing Betty Boop, Max Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the 'real world.' |
| Betty in Blunderland | 1,934 | Animation, Fantasy, Family, Comedy | 6.7 | 16 | English | Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle and finds herself through the looking glass into a modern, urban wonderland. The shrinking potion comes from a "Shrinkola" dispenser. When most of the characters assemble, Betty sings "How Do You Do" to them. But the jabberwock steals Betty away. |
| She Wronged Him Right | 1,934 | Animation, Comedy | 5.2 | 14 | English | Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama. |
| Snow-White | 1,933 | Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Music | 6.8 | 114 | English | Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. |
| Popeye the Sailor | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy | 6.9 | 51 | English | Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop. |
| The Old Man of the Mountain | 1,933 | Animation | 6.8 | 36 | English | Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty. |
| Is My Palm Read | 1,933 | Horror, Comedy, Animation | 5.4 | 19 | English | For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball. |
| Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 | 18 | English | Betty Boop hosts a Hallowe'en party with a few uninvited guests. |
| Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy | 6.1 | 15 | English | In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand. |
| Betty Boop's Penthouse | 1,933 | Comedy, Animation | 6.9 | 14 | English | While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster. |
| Stoopnocracy | 1,933 | Comedy, Animation | 4.9 | 14 | English | An animated short chronicling the adventures of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd. |
| I Heard | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy | 6.6 | 13 | English | The miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch. Back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms. |
| Blow Me Down! | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy, Western | 6.7 | 12 | English | Popeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit. |
| Betty Boop's Big Boss | 1,933 | Comedy, Animation | 6 | 10 | English | Betty takes a secretarial job where the boss sexually harasses her… but not without some encouragement from Betty. |
| Seasin's Greetinks! | 1,933 | Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 10 | English | Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When Olive rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall. |
| I Yam What I Yam | 1,933 | Family, Animation, Comedy | 6.8 | 10 | English | Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are shipwrecked on an island of hostile Indians |
| Minnie the Moocher | 1,932 | Music, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 | 78 | English | Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song. |
| I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You | 1,932 | Music, Animation, Comedy | 6.2 | 20 | English | Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari. |
| Betty Boop, M.D. | 1,932 | Comedy, Animation | 6.8 | 18 | English | Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell a weird concoction in their medicine show. |
| Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle | 1,932 | Animation, Comedy | 6.1 | 17 | English | On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer. |
| Boop-Oop-A-Doop | 1,932 | Animation, Comedy | 6.4 | 16 | English | In the circus, Betty Boop is the lion tamer, sings the title tune on the high wire, and fights off the lecherous ringmaster. |
| Chess-Nuts | 1,932 | Animation, Comedy | 6.2 | 12 | English | An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and football. Koko appears. |
| Crazy-Town | 1,932 | Animation, Comedy | 5.9 | 12 | English | Betty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior. |
| Betty Boop's Museum | 1,932 | Comedy, Animation | 6.1 | 12 | English | Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko's only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The skeletons from the displays come to life and chase Betty, until she is finally rescued by Bimbo. |
| Betty Boop for President | 1,932 | Comedy, Animation | 6.1 | 11 | English | Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre. |
| Stopping the Show | 1,932 | Animation, Comedy | 5.2 | 10 | English | At the theatre, a 'Paramouse Noose Reel' and a Bimbo and Koko cartoon are followed by Betty Boop's stage performance; she sings and does imitations of Helen Kane, Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier. |
| Betty Boop's Ups and Downs | 1,932 | Comedy, Animation, Fantasy | 6.5 | 10 | English | Due to the great depression, property prices start falling. The planet Earth goes up for sale. Mars and Venus make bids, but Saturn, characterised as an old Jew, makes a lower but winning bid. Then just to see what happens, he removes the earth's magnet, and gravity disappears. |
| Bimbo's Initiation | 1,931 | Comedy, Animation, Music, Horror | 7 | 91 | English | Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive? |
| Dizzy Red Riding-Hood | 1,931 | Comedy, Animation | 6.5 | 16 | English | Betty Boop goes to Grandma's through the woods despite wolf warnings; but Bimbo follows and gives the old story a new twist. |
| Minding the Baby | 1,931 | Comedy, Animation | 5.5 | 12 | English | Bimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play. |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | 1,931 | Animation | 6 | 10 | English | A Max & Dave Fleischer cartoon from 1931. Bimbo climbs a beanstalk to find Betty Boop enslaved by the giant. |
| Silly Scandals | 1,931 | Animation | 5.6 | 10 | English | In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist. |
| Swing You Sinners! | 1,930 | Animation, Horror, Music | 6.8 | 36 | English | Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin. |
| Barnacle Bill | 1,930 | Music, Animation, Comedy | 5.2 | 18 | English | Sailor Bimbo (as Barnacle Bill) jumps ship with his little black book and visits his lady friend, Betty Boop (with dog's ears). |
| Mysterious Mose | 1,930 | Animation, Comedy, Music | 6 | 18 | English | Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question...a surreal version of Bimbo. |
| Dizzy Dishes | 1,930 | Animation, Comedy | 5.6 | 17 | English | The Fleischer's Talkartoon short that debuted Betty Boop. |
| KoKo's Earth Control | 1,928 | Comedy, Animation | 6.8 | 27 | English | Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control. Note that this cartoon contains strobe flashing. |
| Invisible Ink | 1,921 | Comedy, Animation | 6.8 | 27 | English | Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown. |
| Modeling | 1,921 | Comedy, Animation | 6.7 | 12 | English | The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust. |
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