Dave Tendlar
Total Credits at Criticker: 47 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Director (47) | Writer (1)
Insect to Injury (1956) - Short Film
Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks. (imdb)
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Pest Pupil (1957) - Short Film
Baby Huey, the over-sized duck, is enrolled in kindergarten but his size and clumsy attempts to fit in causes such havoc that he is expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is led a life of misery due to Huey's efforts to do good that unintentionally backfire. But the tutor winds up in the ocean---unless Huey lived on a shark-invested lake---and and is about to become a shark meal but Huey saves his life...and gets his diploma as a reward from the grateful tutor. (imdb)
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Poop Goes the Weasel (1955) - Short Film
A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P14-6) which finds Waxey the Weasel invading a chicken-coop where a chicken named Wishbone has just been hatched... (imdb)
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Gaston's Easel Life (1958) - Short Film
While Gaston LeCrayon is setting up his painting area on the sidewalk, a limousine zooms by and splashes mud all over the canvas... (imdb)
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The Phantom Skyscraper (1966) - Short Film
The Chief sends James Hound to investigate the apartment complex the villain Professor Mad has open to the public for free. (imdb)
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Jumping with Toy (1957) - Short Film
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey. (imdb)
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Cat in the Act (1957) - Short Film
Herman takes his nephew, Murgatroyd, on a sightseeing tour of Paramount's Hollywood studio. where Murgatroyd... (imdb)
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The Tale of a Dog (1959) - Short Film
A little dog raids a fisherman's catch. He goes to a picnic and raids a picnic table. He gets chased by a cop and, accidentally finding some human clothes,... (bcdb.com)
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Grateful Gus (1958) - Short Film
Grateful Gus, a happy-go-lucky panhandler, puts the touch on a bank executive who is hastily absconding with the bank's liquid assets... (imdb)
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Camp Clobber (1958) - Short Film
The apartment house superintendent, Clint Clobber, a turkey if there ever was one, is constantly pestered by an old retired Army general... (imdb)
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Two-Ton Baby Sitter (1960) - Short Film
Sidney the Elephant wants to start a babysitting service, but his constant sneezing is causing a lot of problems... (bcdb.com)
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Clown Jewels (1961) - Short Film
Some thieves leave a chest of jewels in a cave. Sidney the Elephant is looking to get out of the rainstorm and goes into the cave, ... (bcdb.com)
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Pedro and Lorenzo (1956) - Short Film
A musical story about a boy and his pet bull. They both grow up and must face each other in the arena.. (bcdb.com)
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Outer Space Visitor (1959) - Short Film
The mice of Cheeseville, who are farmers, are having a Saturday night barn dance. (bcdb.com)
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The Rain Drain (1966) - Short Film
Professor Mad and his henchmen are gathering up all the rain clouds and taking them to his desert hideaway. The country is in a panic... not a drop of water... (bcdb.com)
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Sappy New Year (1961) - Short Film
Heckle and Jeckle's New Year's resolution is to refrain from any more practical jokes, but their attempts at good deeds meet with more hostility than their annoying gags. (imdb)
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Drinks on the Mouse (1953) - Short Film
In the deserted ice-cream parlor, the thirsty mice are never able to drink their concoctions because Katnip the Kat keeps them running for their little mice-lives... (imdb)
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Rail Rodents (1954) - Short Film
"Hoiman" and his ratty mice cousins, to escape the winter cold in Brooklyn, hop a streamliner going to Florida... (imdb)
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Git Along Li'l Duckie (1955) - Short Film
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him... (imdb)
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Swab the Duck (1956) - Short Film
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft... (imdb)
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Mint Men (1960) - Short Film
Undercover treasury agents Heckle and Jeckle are assigned to test a new security system at the United States Mint. (bcdb)
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Hide and Peak (1956) - Short Film
Cousin Herman and his crew go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps. Katnip follows, thinking that it'll be an easy meal. (bcdb)
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Dreamnapping (1966) - Short Film
James is a secret agent who is incredibly clumsy. Yet, no matter how many mistakes he makes in his efforts to capture the bad guy, he winds up bagging the criminal. (bcdb)
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Shotgun Shambles (1962) - Short Film
Deputy Dawg is a dim witted Southern lawman, who, despite his own ineptitude, always manages to catch the bad guy.
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Meat, Drink, and Be Merry (1961) - Short Film
Tired of being a vegetarian, Sidney goes after some "meat," but he finds out that he doesn't have the heart to kill his friends.
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One Funny Knight (1957) - Short Film
Herman rescues Princess Genevieve, who has been captured by baron-robber Katnip. Good music score on this cartoon.
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Sky Scrappers (1957) - Short Film
Herman and his little cousins gave to seek other housing arrangements as the building they live in is being torn down. After a long search, Herman finds a place behind some pipe in a new skyscraper being constructed. The only drawback is that Katnip has already taken up residence there. (imdb)
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Sleuth But Sure (1956) - Short Film
Moe the Hare (aka The Rapid-and-sometimes Rabid Rabbit)breaks out of jail so he can hustle down the road and marry his sweetheart. But, Tommy the Tortoise, an officer of the law who is a stickler that thinks jail-prisoners should remain in jail, turtles down the road after Moe. And he dogs after Moe, in his own fashion, until he returns Moe to jail...and winds up with Moe's girlfriend in the process.
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Kitty Cornered (1955) - Short Film
Snardley, a crooked butler, learns that the only thing between him and a fortune is a little cat, Kitty Kuddles, to whom a wealthy spinster has willed her estate. The butler tries to kill the wealthy cat.
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Rabbit Punch (1955) - Short Film
It's the night of the Big Fight between Tommy Tortoise and Michael "Moe" Hare. Tommy takes a beating at first and "Moe" knocks him through the "screen" onto the the animator's table, where Tommy learns what strategy and weapons "Moe" will be using in the fight. Since his shell is good protection, Tommy produces two more shells and "Moe" is soon confused by having to play the old shell game. (imdb)
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Robin Rodenthood (1955) - Short Film
Herman battles Katnip in a costume epic satirizing the Robin Hood story. Katnip is the offical tax collector. Taxes have gone up 100%. The first place that Katnip hits is Povertyville. No money there... only Robin Hood Herman. Herman follows Katnip back to the castle and recovers the money for the mice after a battle. Katnip gets sliced clean down the middle with a fancy medieval executioner's axe!
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Surf and Sound (1954) - Short Film
A band of little mice have come out to play and to enjoy the pleasures offered at the seashore. But, just as sure as this is a Noveltoon, the villainous Katnip the Kat shows up with intent of making certain no mouse, mice or meece in the area enjoys anything. Where, or where, is Herman the Mouse when he is needed? Could that be him coming up the beach? It could. (imdb)
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Candy Cabaret (1954) - Short Film
Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along. (imdb)
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Deep Sea Doodle (1960) - Short Film
Heckle and Jeckle run a dilapidated old scow that they pass off a sport fishing boat to unsuspecting Dimwit. When things start falling apart, The dopey dog chases the merry birds around the tub until it sinks. (imdb)
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Foofle's Picnic (1960) - Short Film
Foofle goes on a picnic and has a day governed by Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong does. (bcdb.com)
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The Big Clean-Up (1963) - Short Film
In the Old West, many towns were under the control of gunslingers. One such town was Untidy Gulch, under the control of "Blackmarket Bromide." It's overrun with outlaws who keep shooting their sheriffs. It puts an advertisement in a big-city Eastern newspaper asking for a clean-up man: "Wanted: Clean-living, clean-thinking, clean-acting man to clean up Untidy Gulch. Must be clean." Hector answers the call... he thinks it's just a dirty town that needs sweeping.
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Riverboat Mission (1962) - Short Film
Hector Heathcote has his own Mississippi riverboat in the War of 1812. The Americans are running out of powder, and the British are winning the war. Hector is assigned to bring some ammunition by boat. When the ammunition runs loose, the Americans win the war. Hector goes down in history as an unsung hero.
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A Flight to the Finish (1962) - Short Film
Hector is working his crops. When a bird flies over, he gets a desire to fly, too. He finds an eagle's nest. As he is getting lessons from a baby eagle, the mother appears. She is not happy with Hector. Not to be outdone, Hector builds himself a flying machine. It doesn't fly. Then he ties himself to a kite and to a horse. He flies... right into a tree.
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Foofle's Train Ride (1959) - Short Film
In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the baggage. (imdb)
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The Minute and a ½ Man (1959) - Short Film
Bumbling Hector Heathcoat joins the Minute Men during the American Revolution and promptly gets everything fouled up, but he becomes a hero when the scares away the attacking British Redcoats. (imdb)
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Molecular Mixup (1964) - Short Film
Astronut is changed into a dog... and can't change back. (bcdb.com)
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Gems from Gemini (1966) - Short Film
Oscar is working on his garden when his space friend brings down some gems and they turn out to be real diamonds. (youtube)
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Slip Us Some Redskin (1951) - Short Film
A traditional Native American grandfather disapproves of his young grandson's hep cat ways, and tells the boy about how the grandfather was a great hunter as a young boy himself.
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Off We Glow (1952) - Short Film
A re-working (uncredited) of a 1930 Fleischer cartoon which visits the insect world and shows a dragon-fly who breathes fire, a horse-fly that whinnies and sports a saddle, and a raccoon-coat carried away by moths. A flashing glow worm, getting ready for a night out on the town, leads to the "follow-the-bouncing-ball" request to the audience to join in on a sing-along of "Glow Worm."
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Gag and Baggage (1952) - Short Film
This "depicts" the development of the American railroad, in cartoon (kartune) form from 1829 into the 1950s. When it gets to the streamliner era, they bring out the bouncing-ball which invites the audience to join in singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad."
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