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Frank Tashlin Filmography
Complete filmography of Frank Tashlin: 44 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Caprice | 1,967 | Thriller, Comedy, Crime | 5.8 | 34 | English | Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company. |
| The Glass Bottom Boat | 1,966 | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 65 | English | Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets? |
| The Alphabet Murders | 1,965 | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 5.7 | 47 | English | The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. |
| The Disorderly Orderly | 1,964 | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 80 | English | Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches! |
| Who's Minding the Store? | 1,963 | Comedy | 6.8 | 88 | English | Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store? |
| It's Only Money | 1,962 | Comedy | 6.1 | 22 | English | Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ? |
| Cinderfella | 1,960 | Comedy, Fantasy, Music | 6.1 | 114 | English | When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually, Fella's Fairy Godfather shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself. |
| Rock-a-Bye Baby | 1,958 | Comedy | 6.8 | 79 | English | An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer. |
| The Geisha Boy | 1,958 | Comedy | 6.2 | 51 | English | Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy. |
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | 1,957 | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 73 | English | To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover. |
| The Girl Can't Help It | 1,956 | Comedy, Music | 6.2 | 75 | English | A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks. |
| Hollywood or Bust | 1,956 | Comedy | 6.1 | 73 | English | The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith ... |
| Artists and Models | 1,955 | Comedy | 6.6 | 129 | English | A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings. |
| Susan Slept Here | 1,954 | Comedy, Drama | 6 | 29 | English | On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall. |
| Son of Paleface | 1,952 | Comedy, Western | 6.3 | 34 | English | Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. |
| Hare Remover | 1,946 | Animation, Comedy | 5.9 | 23 | English | Elmer Fudd is an amateur scientist who wants to turn a normal character into a devilish fiend; he's all out of experimental animals. Enter Bugs Bunny. |
| Nasty Quacks | 1,945 | Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 14 | English | A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night l... |
| The Unruly Hare | 1,945 | Animation, Comedy | 7.2 | 12 | English | When Elmer Fudd disturbs Bugs with his railroad surveying, Bugs fights back. |
| Swooner Crooner | 1,944 | Animation, Comedy, Music | 7 | 20 | English | Porky Pig's egg faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs. |
| The Stupid Cupid | 1,944 | Animation, Comedy | 6.9 | 17 | English | Cupid (Elmer Fudd) is on the prowl around the farm. With his ever-accurate arrows, he spreads love to sometimes unwilling recipients. But when he s... |
| Plane Daffy | 1,944 | Animation, War, Comedy | 6.7 | 17 | English | Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get. |
| Booby Hatched | 1,944 | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.5 | 15 | English | A duck struggles mightily and finally hatches her eggs in the bitter cold. All but one, that is: poor little Robespierre. Mama doesn't notice him missing until after he has sprouted legs and run off in search of warmth. |
| Censored | 1,944 | Comedy, Animation, War | 6.5 | 13 | English | Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu's carrier pigeon can avoid the censor -- not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter -- but he has good reason to say that he'll hate himself in the morning. |
| I Got Plenty of Mutton | 1,944 | Animation, Comedy | 6.7 | 11 | English | A wolf, deprived of meat by war rationing and starving, sees an article in the newspaper about a sheepdog leaving his flock to join the army and thinks it will be easy pickings. However, if he had read the rest of the article, he would know that the flock is now guarded by the ram Killer Diller, a most formidable foe. |
| Porky Pig's Feat | 1,943 | Animation, Comedy | 7.1 | 35 | English | Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill. |
| Scrap Happy Daffy | 1,943 | Animation, Comedy, War | 6.5 | 26 | English | During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, after throwing a fit and chewing a carpet like a mad dog, orders Daffy's scrap pile destroyed. |
| Puss n' Booty | 1,943 | Animation, Comedy | 6.6 | 24 | English | Woman wonders why her little pet birds keep disappearing. Rudolph the cat knows, but other than burping feathers, he's not saying. But it looks like he's met his match when the woman orders another bird from the pet shop: a little yellow canary named "Petey". |
| The Home Front | 1,943 | War, Animation, Comedy | 6.2 | 14 | English | A homesick Pvt. Snafu learns that his family are almost as committed to the war efforts as himself. |
| The Gold Brick | 1,943 | Animation | 6.5 | 12 | English | A fairy encourages Snafu to duck out of his training regime for his own reasons. |
| Have You Got Any Castles | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy, Music | 6.4 | 28 | English | A night in a small library. The characters of famous books come to life, referring to movie versions of these books. |
| Little Pancho Vanilla | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy | 5.3 | 13 | English | Little Pancho Vanilla dreams of becoming a bullfighter, but his mother tells him that's impossible. The greatest bullfighter in Mexico, Don Jose, is coming to town; Pancho tells the local women he's better, so he goes to the amateur tryout, but he gets thrown out because he's so small. The bull quickly disposes of the other amateurs, sending one over the fence, where he catapults Pancho into the ring right on top of the bull, knocking out the bull to great acclaim from the crowd. |
| Wholly Smoke | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy | 6.7 | 12 | English | A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc. |
| Porky at the Crocadero | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy | 5.8 | 12 | English | The Crocadero nightclub. Porky has his diploma from the Sucker Correspondence School of music, and has dreams of being a bandleader, but he's broke. He gets a job at the club washing dishes. His boss mistakes Porky going after a fly for loafing and fires him. His bandleaders don't show, and he brings Porky back to impersonate several famous bandleaders. |
| Now That Summer Is Gone | 1,938 | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 10 | English | Summer is gone, and throughout the forest young squirrels are working hard gathering acorns for the long cold winter ahead. But one such squirrel has a better idea: winning acorns by shooting dice. |
| The Case of the Stuttering Pig | 1,937 | Animation, Horror, Comedy | 7 | 22 | English | Porky Pig and his family inherit Uncle Solomon's estate, but if they die everything goes to the lawyer, who turns himself into a Mr. Hyde-style monster in an effort to kill off the pigs. |
| Porky's Railroad | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 6.4 | 19 | English | Porky is the engineer on the most pathetic train in the fleet. After some routine episodes (using pepper to get the engine to sneeze itself up a hill, chasing a cow off the tracks, only to discover too late that it's been replaced by a very angry bull), Porky gets word that he's going to be replaced by the new streamlined Silver Fish. He insults it under his breath, but the Silver Fish engineer hears and challenges him to a race. The angry bull catapults Porky to victory. |
| The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 5.1 | 15 | English | Forest animals participate in the Woodland Community Swing Variety Show on radio station KUKU. |
| Speaking of the Weather | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 5.3 | 15 | English | It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Si... |
| Porky's Road Race | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 6.4 | 15 | English | It's race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky's little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. When the black #13 driven by "Borax Karoff" makes a bid for the finish line, can Porky fend him off? |
| Porky's Double Trouble | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 6.5 | 13 | English | Porky Pig has some problems when his mobster lookalike decides to frame him for a bank job. |
| Porky's Romance | 1,937 | Animation, Comedy | 5.8 | 13 | English | The introduction cartoon for Petunia Pig deals with Porky's courtship with her. Once he's won her hand in marriage, he fantasizes about his future with her, which doesn't seem very appealing. |
| Porky in the North Woods | 1,936 | Animation, Family | 6.5 | 12 | English | Porky Pig runs a game refuge. Despite the abundant signs to the contrary, Jean-Baptiste the trapper sets numerous traps, ensnaring many animals. |
| Porky's Poultry Plant | 1,936 | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 11 | English | Porky Pig is raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Many birds have fallen victim to the hawk. Porky's going to do everything he can to fight back. |
| Little Beau Porky | 1,936 | Animation, Comedy | 6.2 | 11 | English | Porky's in the foreign legion. But he's not allowed to fight; all he can do is scrub camels, and he's not particularly good at that. The other soldiers ride off to find the evil Ali Mode, leaving Porky behind. Ali Mode notices, and tries to gain entrance to the fort, first by tricking Porky, then by tunnelling, then by military assaults, but Porky rebuffs all attempts, ultimately landing Ali Mode in a big vat of "Cairo Syrup" and collecting a chestful of medals. |
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