The best Larry D. Mann’s animation movies

Larry D. Mann

Larry D. Mann

22/12/1922- 06/01/2014
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Larry D. Mann’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Larry D. Mann.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8/10
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

The Daydreamer

The Daydreamer
6.1/10
In this hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, a young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
6/10
In this animated version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, we see the story of young Oliver Twist, a boy orphaned at birth and left to grow up under the cruel tutelage of Mr. Bumble, the local parish beadle.

Yokahama Mama

Yokahama Mama
5.2/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 24/12/1972
  • Character: Blue Racer / Hen / Baby Ostrich (voice)
Blue Racer finds out that the Japanese chicken in the local farm has laid an egg. Blue Racer wastes no time getting it. Unfortunatly, the egg's father is a champion fighting rooster and foiled his plans several times. In his final attempt, he trips the rooster, which, as a result, the egg rolled down to the ostrich farm. The rooster mistakes an ostrich egg as his and takes it home, only, it hatched. The chicken couple argues over it, in Japanese language. Blue Racer, watching the scene, tells the audience that this is the Be Kind to Egg week, "So take your egg out to dinner, or at breakfast."

Return to Oz

Return to Oz
5.5/10
Rather than adapt a later or create a new Oz story, this production has Dorothy still in posession of the shoes, and she clings to an apple tree during a tornado which takes her back to Oz. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion (using the names created for the nearly-abstract television series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, from which this was derived) have had their MGM gifts destroyed by the restored Wicked Witch, and the four proceed to the Wizard for help, who is ineffectual as usual.

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
5.9/10
Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.

Snake Preview

Snake Preview
5.3/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 10/08/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Crazylegs Crane / Bee (voice)
The Blue Racer snake hunts for food. After failing to nab an egg from Crazylegs Crane, he decided to try catching a bee, but even that fails.

Killarney Blarney

Killarney Blarney
5/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 16/05/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer (voice)
The shipwrecked Blue Racer spots an island and also spots two mischievous leprechauns giving the fast blue snake hard time.

Hiss and Hers

Hiss and Hers
5.7/10
The Blue Racer's wife wakes the Blue Racer up and sends him out for food. He encounters the Japanese Beetle, tries to eat and capture the Beetle over and over, but fails. First "The Blue Racer" cartoon.

Blue Aces Wild

Blue Aces Wild
5.2/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 16/05/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Crazylegs Crane / Giraffe (voice)
Feeling down about his reptilian appearance, Blue Racer wonders what it would be like to instead be a bird. Just then, a wizard appears out of thin air in need of some snake sweat for a magical potion. Blue Racer refuses to help, but the wizard entices him by offering to grant him three wishes. Intrigued, Blue Racer wishes he had wings. The wizard obliges, but a little courting escapade, an encounter with Crazylegs Crane, and the rescue of a small chick make Blue Racer realize that life as a winged blue snake isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane
7.5/10
Sleepy Hollow, a town plagued by the Headless Horseman, hires the most educated person they can find to fight him - Ichabod Crane. He, talking horse and dog, and Rip van Winkle go on the quest. But the Horseman has a secret.

Fowl Play

Fowl Play
5.3/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 01/06/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Rooster / Chick / Ed / Joe (voice)
Blue Racer is forced to play with a rooster's son, so Racer tries to play games with him, which usually involve Blue Racer trying to get rid of the little bird. Unfortunatly for the snake, the rooster is keeping an eye on them all the time.

Nippon Tuck

Nippon Tuck
5.8/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 16/07/1972
  • Character: Blue Racer (voice)
In a Mexican town, The Blue Racer flies in a plane and tries to hypnotize the Japanese Beetle.

Love and Hisses

Love and Hisses
5.7/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 03/08/1972
  • Character: Blue Racer / Elephant (voice)
While feeling amorous, the Blue Racer hits on what he believes is a fellow snake but turns out to be a tough elephant's trunk. The elephant gives him a pounding but hurts his trunk in the process. Coming upon the Japanese Beetle, the pachyderm asks him to perform a little chiropractic karate on his sore trunk. The Beetle obliges, and in gratitude the elephant promises to protect him from a certain serpent.

Camera Bug

Camera Bug
5.2/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 06/08/1972
  • Character: Blue Racer (voice)
The Japanese Beetle goes to school to learn to be a photographer. The Blue Racer uses the opportunity to try and catch him.

Punch and Judo

Punch and Judo
4.9/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 23/07/1972
  • Character: Blue Racer (voice)
The Japanese Beetle uses his karate skills to fight The Blue Racer.

Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow

Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow
5.7/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 01/06/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Bear / Flophouse Owner / Tall Bear (voice)
It's winter and The Blue Racer is looking for a place to stay. He comes across a cabin that's perfect except for a bear that wants it for himself.

The Boa Friend

The Boa Friend
6/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 11/02/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Calypso Bee / Homer (voice)
A singing bee gives Blue Racer suggestions on how to win back his girlfriend.

Aches and Snakes

Aches and Snakes
5.1/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 10/08/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer / Crazylegs Crane (voice)
Crazylegs Crane and Blue Racer fights to get the honey bee for a meal.

Wham and Eggs

Wham and Eggs
5.2/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 18/02/1973
  • Character: Blue Racer (voice)
While looking for a thousand year egg in a Japanese contest, Blue Racer stumbles upon a dragon who hatches in one of it, and the dragon thinks he is his mother. After many misfortunes raising him, Blue Racer sends the dragon to Tokyo to become a movie star. In the end, Blue Racer reads in a newspaper that the dragon did became an actor.

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