The best Tex Avery’s movies

Tex Avery

Tex Avery

26/02/1908- 26/08/1980
Today we present the best Tex Avery’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Tex Avery’s movies.
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Señor Droopy

Señor Droopy
7.2/10
The wolf, the champion toreador, and Droopy, the challenger, are competing to see who is best in the bullring in the hopes of winning the hand of actress Lina Romay (who appears in a live action shot).

Ventriloquist Cat

Ventriloquist Cat
7.4/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 27/05/1950
  • Character: Alley Cat / Spike (voice) (uncredited)
A cat learns the art of ventriloquism in order to play a series of practical jokes on a slow-witted bulldog...

Deputy Droopy

Deputy Droopy
7.5/10
Two outlaws are trying to steal a shipment of gold being guarded by Deputy Droopy, and have to keep quiet to avoid alerting the sheriff.

Henpecked Hoboes

Henpecked Hoboes
6.6/10
  • Release: 26/10/1946
  • Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.

Hound Hunters

Hound Hunters
6.6/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 12/04/1947
  • Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.

Circus Today

Circus Today
6.6/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 21/06/1940
  • Character: Circus Bandmaster (voice) (uncredited)
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.

Bad Luck Blackie

Bad Luck Blackie
7.6/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 22/01/1949
  • Character: Large Dog (voice) (uncredited)
A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.

Lonesome Lenny

Lonesome Lenny
7.1/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 09/03/1946
  • Character: Lenny (voice) (uncredited)
Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of a lonesome, dopey, but strong, dog, Lenny, in a broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".

A Day at the Zoo

A Day at the Zoo
6.9/10
  • Genre: AnimationFamily
  • Release: 11/03/1939
  • Character: Other Elk Named Bill (voice) (uncredited)
A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.

Who Killed Who?

Who Killed Who?
7.4/10
A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.

Red Hot Rangers

Red Hot Rangers
6.5/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 03/05/1947
  • Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight...

Egghead Rides Again

Egghead Rides Again
5.8/10
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.

Dangerous Dan McFoo

Dangerous Dan McFoo
6.5/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 15/07/1939
  • Character: Fight Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?

Bugs Bunny: Superstar

Bugs Bunny: Superstar
7/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 19/12/1975
  • Character: Himself
Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.

Thugs with Dirty Mugs

Thugs with Dirty Mugs
6.9/10
Killer Diller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order (except the 13th National Bank, which they skip out of superstition). Despite their predictable actions, the police are unable to catch them...until they get a tip from an unlikely source.

The Bear's Tale

The Bear's Tale
6.9/10
The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.

Count Me Out

Count Me Out
6/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 17/12/1938
  • Character: Fight Referee
Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.

The Heckling Hare

The Heckling Hare
7.2/10
Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.

Hold the Lion, Please

Hold the Lion, Please
7/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 06/06/1942
  • Character: Hippo (voice) (uncredited)
A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.

Barney's Hungry Cousin

Barney's Hungry Cousin
6.7/10
Barney Bear heads to a national park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.

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