
- #Warner brothers cartoon making fun of j edgar hoover movie#
- #Warner brothers cartoon making fun of j edgar hoover series#
#Warner brothers cartoon making fun of j edgar hoover movie#
To sum up: In view of the star line-up, somewhat disappointing, but still a must for all movie buffs. Edgar Hoover, known as G-man says the word Gee several times. in other Looney Tunes cartoons as well, such as The Old Grey Hare. Creator Cameo: Leon Schlesinger, producer of the Warner Bros. Jerome's "Congo", Harry Warren's "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", Murray Mencher's "Merrily We Roll Along" and others, all delightfully rendered by the studio orchestra under the baton of Leo F. The Little Dutch Mill and Other Cartoon Classics. Musically, the film is a feast for song-lovers with snatches from Nat Ayer's "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", Tony Jackson and Egbert Van Alstyne's "Pretty Baby", Allie Wrubel's "The Lady in Red", Isham Jones' "It Had To Be You", James Brockman, James Kendis and Nat Vincent's "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", M.K. And maybe two or three are now forgotten. Novelist Stephen King gushes Shaun of the Dead is a 10 on the fun meter and destined to be a cult classic and Newsweek calls it a bloody hoot Hot Fuzz Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a big-city cop who can’t be stopped but he’s making everyone else on the force look bad. Some of the faces are glimpsed so fleetingly they will be difficult for a 2007 audience to recognize. Easy terms available) are weighted in favor of Warner Bros, though a number of "foreign" stars receive a fair innings including the Hardys (both real and fictional), the Three Stooges, and Harpo Marx. The G-men: Chritian Bale as Melvin Purvis and Billy Crudup as J. Naturally the stars in evidence at Ciro's on this particular night (Dinner $50 and up. Edgar Hoover as an irrelevant artifact of the bad old days or, most. At least two gags deal with Crosby's horse-racing ventures, whilst the climax features a bubble dance by "Sally Strand". But Warner Bros.’ faces a significant commercial challenge in stirring the interest of younger audiences likely to regard J. One of the longest spots has Jimmy Stewart declining an invitation to rumba. The voice impersonations are mostly very skillful. The script is not particularly amusing or inventive, but fascinating all the same. Hollywood instilled new life and credibility in the law by creating the prototype of a new tough policeman. 1 cop largely due to Warner Brothers 1935 sensational hit, G-Men.

Surprisingly, this film was included as a newcomer title to Warner Brothers’ package of computer-colorized Looney Tunes for Cartoon Network, although it was not one of the titles chosen for the older hand traced color travesties of the 1970’s. I don’t believe Sinatra ever recorded It Can’t Be Wrong, but he sang it on a radio show. Alpine Antics (Warner, Looney Tunes, 5/9/36, Jack King, dir.). By October next year, he was writing for live-action at Paramount.
#Warner brothers cartoon making fun of j edgar hoover series#
On August 31st, Variety announced Tashlin was leaving Warners to work for Morey and Sutherland as the supervising director for their cartoon series released by United Artists. The cartoon was nominated for an Oscar but lost to MGM’s Mouse Trouble. Warren), BingĪnd Stalling tosses in a good helping of Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse in the henhouse sequence and a little bit of As Time Goes By. Dubin, H.Warren), Duranteīlues in the Night (H. Shortenin’ Bread (traditional), Nelson Eddy? From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to 'First National Pictures'. Family Entertainment, and its former subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 19281960. Animation, its former division label, Warner Bros. Note how he also reuses animation of the hen shadows, first as they run to hear Frankie, then after they turn around and run to hear Bing.Ī fun gag is how Frankie’s singing turns one hen into a pool of, uh, well, I’m not sure what.Īnd from the famous between-Frankie’s-legs scene.Ĭarl Stalling packed this cartoon with Warners-owned songs. This is a list of notable theatrical feature films produced or disitrbuted by Warner Bros. Whether Tashlin was doing his own layouts, I don’t know, but loved angles and cinematic effects.

One of the hens hears the Frankie rooster oozing out the hit It Can’t Be Wrong. Groovy, but it was getting hard to tell these detective shows apart.

And the two biggest ones were Frank Sinatra and the old groaner Bing Crosby. The boys solve crimes on the island while Cricket sings in the bar at night. Of course, there were no boy bands in 1944. The ridiculous extent of how over-anxious and hyper-romantic teenaged girls are gripped by boy band fanhood was satirised by Frank Tashlin in the Warner Bros.
